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Optimal Vehicle Motion Control to Mitigate Secondary Crashes after an Initial Impact.
(2015)
Statistical data of road traffic fatalities show that fatalities in multiple-event crashes are higher than in single-event crashes. Most vehicle safety systems were developed to mitigate first crash events. Few active ...
Computational Modeling and Analysis of Low Temperature Combustion Regimes for Advanced Engine Applications.
(2016)
To achieve cleaner and more efficient energy utilization, novel strategies in modern combustion devices operate using lean, premixed reactant mixtures at high pressures. Under these conditions, auto-ignition often becomes ...
How Push-off Influences Energetics and Mechanics of Human Walking.
(2014)
The energetic cost of walking is important for mobility. The energetic cost of normal healthy people walking has been shown as a minimization objective for determining some gait parameters, but there lacks of understanding ...
Developments in Estimation and Control for Cloud-Enabled Automotive Vehicles.
(2016)
Cloud computing is revolutionizing access to distributed information and computing resources that can facilitate future data and computation intensive vehicular control functions and improve vehicle driving comfort and ...
Computational Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture and Natural Gas Storage.
(2014)
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as promising materials for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the storage of alternative fuels such as methane (CH4). Amongst the many possible MOFs, metal-substituted ...
Collective Mechanochemical Growth of Carbon Nanotubes.
(2014)
Hierarchically ordered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising for integration in high-performance structural composites, electrical interconnects, thermal interfaces, and filtration membranes. These and other applications ...
Experiments and Inverse Analysis for Determining Non-Linear Viscoelastic Properties of Polymeric Capsules and Biological Cells.
(2014)
In this thesis, the mechanics of polymeric capsules and biological cells was studied using compression and atomic force microscopy (AFM), respectively.
First, the force-time responses of fluid-filled polymeric capsules ...
Nonlinear Reduced Order Models and Damage Detection in Systems with Complex Geometry.
(2013)
Recently, the interest in monitoring the structural health of dynamic systems has been
increasing. Especially large and complex air and space structures need monitoring systems
to help ensure the safety and reliability of ...
Semantic Networks for Hybrid Processes.
(2013)
Simulation models are often used in parallel with a physical system to facilitate control, diagnosis and monitoring. Model based methods for control, diagnosis and monitoring form the basis for the popular sobriquets ...
An Electromagnetic Trapping Platform for Single Molecule Studies.
(2015)
Mechanical forces and torques play an important role in many biological processes ranging from gene transcription to protein conformational dynamics, and intracellular transportation. A range of spectroscopy techniques ...