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Fuel Property Impact on a Premixed Diesel Combustion Mode.
(2009)
New premixed diesel combustion strategies, with their low engine-out PM and NOx emissions, are highly attractive for production implementation given increasingly strict emissions regulations. Accordingly, premixed diesel ...
Interaction and Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles for Biomedical, Nanodevice, and Material Applications.
(2009)
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the use of nanoparticles as a means of self-assembly into target structures and as candidates for a variety of applications such as advanced materials, nanodevices, and drug delivery ...
Global Reaction Kinetics for Oxidation and Storage in Diesel Oxidation Catalysts.
(2008)
Realizing the need for effective kinetic models that could be used over wide operating regimes, oxidation and storage kinetics for a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) were developed in this work.
As a first step towards ...
Robust Thermal Error Modeling and Compensation for CNC Machine Tools.
(2008)
Thermal errors are one of the most significant factors affecting machine tool accuracy. Error compensation has been widely used to reduce the thermal errors, the robustness of the thermal error models, however, still needs ...
System-level Quality Planning and Diagnosis for Complex Multistage Manufacturing Processes.
(2008)
The performance of a multistage manufacturing process (MMP) can be measured by quality, productivity and cost. All these measures are influenced by the variation of the key product characteristics (KPC’s). To remain ...
Minimum Quantity Lubrication Grinding Using Nanofluids.
(2008)
This research develops a new grinding temperature measurement method and a finite difference method (FDM) based grinding thermal model to study the application of nanofluids for minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) grinding. ...
Synthesis of Products, Processes and Control for Dimensional Quality in Reconfigurable Assembly Systems.
(2007)
Reconfigurable systems and tools have given manufacturers the possibility to quickly adapt to changes in the market place. Such systems allow the production of different products with simple and quick reconfiguration. ...
Strength and fatigue failure of spot friction welds between similar and dissimilar sheet materials.
(2009)
Strength and fatigue failure of spot friction welds (or friction stir spot welds) between similar and dissimilar sheet materials are investigated based on a combined experimental, numerical and theoretical approach. ...
Multiscale Modeling of Li-Ion Cells: Mechanics, Heat Generation and Electrochemical Kinetics.
(2009)
To assists implementing Li-ion battery technology in automotive drivetrain electrification, this study focuses on improving calendar life by reducing degradation due to stress-induced electrode particle fracture and heat ...
A Continuum Theory of Multiphase Mixtures for Modelling Biological Growth.
(2007)
This dissertation presents a continuum treatment of growth in biological tissue developed within the context of modern mixture theory. The crux of this work is a careful examination of the assumptions underlying continuum ...