Browsing AUS Theses & Dissertations by College/Dept "Department of Mechanical Engineering"
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4D Printed Auxetic Structures with Tunable Mechanical Properties
(2019-06)Additive manufacturing (i.e., 3D printing) has revolutionized the entire design cycle from prototyping, machining, and assembly. The majority of the materials suitable for 3D printing result in rather rigid structures with ... -
Added Mass Formulation For Fluid-Structure Interaction
(2016-05)Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) occurs due to interaction of multiple continuum fields. In our daily life, FSI is a common phenomenon. Birds flying in the air, leaves falling off the tree and waving flags are examples ... -
Adoption of Industry 4.0 for Sustainable Manufacturing
(2022-04)The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) intends to help different industries monitor, control, and run their production systems efficiently. Most of the currently available Industry 4.0 implementation frameworks ... -
Analysis of an Airfoil with Rotating Cylinder for Improved Performance
(2019-04)Among the multiple techniques used for boundary-layer control and flow separation delay, moving surface boundary-layer control is one of the promising approaches. Adding a rotating cylinder is one means of enhancing the ... -
Analysis of Innovative Vapor Compression and Thermal Energy Storage Systems Using Alternative Refrigerants
(2016-12)This research presents detailed analyses of innovative single and two stages vapor compression refrigeration cycles (VCRCs) as well as a cold thermal energy system (CTES) for residential and commercial cooling applications. ... -
Artificial Intelligence Based Identification of the Attitude Dynamics for a Quadrotor UAV
(2014-12)Quadrotor UAVs have become very popular, recently. At the same time, having a model of a system proves rather useful in almost any engineering task. In the case of quadrotors this becomes a challenging task, because they ... -
Assessing the bond strength in thermoplastic fiber composite fabricated by an open mold process
(2021-07)Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have become popular in marine, aerospace, and structural applications due to their high specific stiffness and strength as well as their ability to conform to complex shapes without ... -
Assessment of Integrating Solar Energy Technology with Combined Cycle Power Plants
(2014-06)The integration of solar energy technology with the conventional combined cycle is considered as a promising technology to produce electricity due to its valuable and unique benefits. Also, adding thermal energy storage ... -
Autopilot Design and Commercial Autopilot Evaluation Using Flybarless Helicopter
(2014-03)In its effort to develop unmanned autonomous systems research capabilities, the College of Engineering is adding a rotary wing UAV to its research activities. The current thesis goal is to use the Maxi Joker 3 commercial ... -
Buckling of Inhomogeneous and Functionally Graded Columns
(2014-07)Buckling is an instability encountered in a wide variety of problems, both in engineering and biology. Almost all engineering structures are designed with adequate safety factors to prevent failure due to buckling, yielding, ... -
Building A Passive Thermal Management System Using Phase Change Material Embedded In Porous Media
(2021-12)This work aims to investigate the heat transfer effectiveness of different phase change materials (PCMs) when infused in plate-based heatsinks with a fixed volume fraction of thermal conductivity enhancer (TCE). Moreover, ... -
CFD Based Airfoil Shape Optimization for Aerodynamic Drag Reduction
(2012-05)Commercial airplanes generally follow specific flight profiles consisting of take-off, climb, cruise, descend and landing. These flight profiles essentially change the freestream conditions in which the aircrafts operate. ... -
CFD Study of Particle Concentration and Stokes Number Effect on Erosion Profile.
(2017-04)A very common problem that continuously faces industrial applications involving fluid flow is solid particle erosion. This type of erosion is caused when solid particles carried by a fluid flow continuously impact a surface ... -
Characterizing the Acoustic Behavior of Hexagonal Periodic Cellular Cores
(2020-12)Cellular solid cores are used in composite sandwich structures due to their high stiffness to weight ratio. However, owing to their porosity, they are inherently weak and are susceptible to damage due to improper loadings. ... -
Collision-Free Autonomous Navigation Solution for Mobile Wheeled
(2023-04)Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have become an imperative tool that is employed in a wide range of industrial sectors including oil and gas, agriculture, and defence. Their autonomy makes them an excellent choice for remote ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics of Energy Separation in Vortex Tube
(2021-05)Devil’s Tube is the name that some researchers chose for Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube because of the ambiguity of its working mechanism. In an attempt to unveil the principle of energy separations in this tube, this study ... -
Conceptual Design and Analysis of Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) Solar Collectors with Different Configurations
(2015-05)In light of the globally dwindling fossil fuel reserves, escalating fuel prices, and growing environmental concerns; the need for energy-efficient and environmentally-benign sustainable energy solutions becomes direr than ... -
Conserved-Mass Metastructures For Vibration Suppression
(2019-04)Vibration suppression, cancellation or absorption is an expansive field of research, which has been the focus of numerous studies performed by scientists and engineers for decades. Metamaterials are a new class of semi-active ...