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  • Cold trap performance : a general analysis

    Creator:
    Rothwell, Micheal Olin
    Abstract:
    A cold trap is a device used to remove certain impurities from a liquid metal by controlled precipitation of such impurities. An investigation of the thermal characteristics of laminar flow in two air-cooled cold traps was made. This investigation showed that the sodium heat transfer rate is a function of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Polycarbonate as a photoplastic stress freezing material

    Creator:
    Broderick, John Justin
    Abstract:
    Dead weight creep tests were conducted on polycarbonate in order to determine if it is a linear viscoelastic material; or if it is not, then to determine the feasibility of photoplastic stress freezing. Secondary objectives were: the determination of the parameters in the creep compliance of a four element viscoelastic...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Design, construction and testing of torsiograph

    Creator:
    Hamann, David Eugene
    Abstract:
    The crankshaft of an internal combustion engine experiences torsional vibrations which become critical at certain running speeds and can cause overstressing in the crankshaft, leading to failure in some cases. The object of this study was to design, construct and test an instrument to measure these oscillations at one point...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Design considerations for strain gage transducers

    Creator:
    Smith, Harlan Bradford
    Abstract:
    Design considerations are presented which apply to all types of electrical resistance strain gage transducers. While the concepts apply to mass produced transducers, the information should be most useful for the engineer or technician who designs one-of-a-kind or "home-made" transducers. Errors which affect the accuracy of strain gage transducers are...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • A photoelastic stress analysis of a beam under shear and compressive loads

    Creator:
    Bitting, Kenneth Robert
    Abstract:
    The determination of failure is complicated when a structural element is subjected to combined rather than simple stresses. This is especially true when the principle of superposition does not apply. For such cases, tests of the element under the expected loads are required to determine its failure criteria. In this...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis