Division of Mechanical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Flow Acoustic Analysis Of Complex Muffler Configurations
(2013-06-21)A theoretical study has been carried out on different methods available to analyze complex mufflers. Segmentation methods have been discussed in detail. The latest two port segmentation method has been discussed and employed ... -
Magnesium Matrix-Nano Ceramic Composites By In-situ Pyrolysis Of Organic Precursors In A Liquid Melt
(2013-06-20)In this thesis, a novel in-situ method for incorporating nanoscale ceramic particles into metal has been developed. The ceramic phase is introduced as an organic-polymer precursor that pyrolyzes in-situ to produce a ceramic ... -
Developing A Dialogue Based Knowledge Acquisition Method For Automatically Acquiring Expert Knowledge To Diagnose Mechanical Assemblies
(2013-06-20)Mechanical assembly is an important step during product realization, which is an integrative process that brings together the parts of the assembly, the people performing the assembly and the various technologies that are ... -
Distributed Bioenergy Systems For Expanding Rural Electricity Access In Tumkur District, India : A Feasibility Assessment Using GIS, Heuristics And Simulation Models
(2013-06-20)Energy is an important input for various activities that provide impetus to economic, human and social development of any country. Among all the energy carriers, electricity is the most important and sought after energy ... -
Periodically Perforated Sheets : Design And analysis
(2013-06-17)Periodically perforated sheets(PS) are ubiquitous in nature as well as in engineered artifacts developed for aerospace, automotive, marine, nuclear and structural applications. PS are indispensable for saving weight and ... -
A Study On Boundary Layer Transition Induced By Large Freestream Disturbances
(2013-06-12)The initial slow viscous growth of the Tollmein-Schlichting wave in a canonical boundary layer transition is absent in bypass and wake-induced transitions. Although there have been a great deal of studies pertaining to ... -
Studies On Shock Wave Attenuation In Liquids
(2013-06-11)The attenuation mechanism of shock waves of arbitrary strength propagating in air has been reasonably well understood. On the other hand, very little is known about the precise mechanism of shock wave attenuation and energy ... -
Observed Subseasonal Variability Of Temperarture And Salinity In The Tropical Indian Ocean
(2013-06-10)Subseasonal variability of tropical Indian Ocean sea surface temperature is thought to influence the active-break cycle of the Asian monsoon. There are several open questions related to the role of surface fluxes, large-scale ... -
Plastic Deformation During Indentation Of Crystalline And Amorphous Materials
(2013-06-10)Indentation hardness, H, has been widely used to characterize the mechanical properties of materials for more than a century because of the following advantages of this technique; (1) it requires small sample and (2) the ... -
Momentum And Enthalpy Transfer In Packed Beds - Experimental Evaluation For Unsteady Inlet Temperature At High Reynolds Numbers
(2013-06-10)Solid propellant gas generators that have high gas capacity are used for fast pressurization of inflatable devices or elastic shells. However, many applications such as control surface actuation, air bottle pressurization ... -
Characterization Of Al-Si Alloy Engine Bores For Tribological Studies
(2013-06-06)Aluminum - Silicon alloys are recognized as appropriate materials for high performance cast components used in transportation powertrain applications. A combination of excellent wear resistance, good thermal conductivity ... -
Activation Of Fly Ash-Lime Reactions By Curing At Elevated Temperature And By Addition Of Phosphogypsum
(2013-06-04)Pozzolanic reactions play a key role in improving the compressive strengths of compacted fly ash-lime specimens. Based on studies performed with cement amended fly ash (FA), activation of fly ash-lime pozzolanic reactions ... -
Structural Modeling And Analysis Of Insect Scale Flapping Wing
(2013-06-04)Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are defined as a class of vehicles with their larger dimension not exceeding 15 cm and weighing 100 gm. The three main approaches for providing lift for such vehicles are through fixed, rotating ... -
Role Of Boron On The Evolution Of Microstructure And Texture In Ti-6AL-4V-0.1B Alloy
(2013-06-04)Titanium and its alloys constitute an important class of materials for aerospace, biomedical, and chemical industries, primarily due to their high specific strength and fracture toughness with good corrosion resistance. ... -
Differential Evolution Based Interceptor Guidance Law
(2013-05-29)Kinematics based guidance laws like the proportional navigation (PN) and many other linear optimal guidance laws perform well in near-collision course conditions. These have been studied thoroughly in the literature from ... -
Effect Of Cross-sectional Nonlinearities On Anisotropic Strip-based Mechanisms
(2013-05-28)The goal of this work is to develop and demonstrate a comprehensive analysis of single and multi-body composite strip-beam systems using an asymptotically-correct geometrically nonlinear theory. The comprehensiveness ... -
Numerical Simulations Of Two-Phase Reacting Flow In A Cavity Combustor
(2013-05-28)In the present work, two phase reacting flow in a single cavity Trapped Vortex Combustor (TVC) is studied at atmospheric conditions. KIVA-3V, numerical program for simulating three dimensional compressible reacting flows ... -
Strength Prediction And Fatigue De-Bond Growth In Bonded Joints In Metallic And Composite Structures
(2013-05-23)Large scale structures such as those in aerospace flight vehicles are made in parts and assembled. Joints are inevitable in these systems and they are potential threats to the structural integrity of the flight vehicles. ...