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  • Design Automation for 3D Circuits

    Creator:
    Velayati, Mohammad
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    Traditional electronic systems are usually fabricated via printed circuit boards (PCBs). In a regular PCB, the electronic components are placed and mounted on a two-dimensional board. Such a component layout limits the freedom in the component placement process which results in larger electronic devices. With the use of Additive Manufacturing...
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    circuit boards (PCBs). In a regular PCB, the electronic components are placed and mounted on a two

  • Photonic Sintering of Nanoparticle Inks : Experimental Characterization, Computational Modeling and System Design for Additive Manufacturing

    Creator:
    MacNeill, William D.
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    Photonic sintering of nanoparticles is a relatively new process for sintering of nanoparticles, deposited on a substrate, into functional solid structures. The working principle of this process is the incidence of large-area broad-spectrum light onto deposited nanoparticles, which results in heat generation in the nanoparticles and their subsequent densification. Key...
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    include rapid, scalable and ambient condition operation. For these reasons there is significant interest

  • Bi-level flexible-robust optimization for energy allocation problems

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    Biswas, Arpan
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    A common problem in energy allocation problems is managing the trade-off between selling surplus energy to maximize short term revenue, versus holding surplus energy to hedge against future shortfalls. For energy allocation problems, this surplus represents resource flexibility and is quantified as the surplus energy after meeting the demand. The...
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    shortfalls. For energy allocation problems, this surplus represents resource flexibility and is quantified

  • Effect of Shape on Nanoparticle Sintering: A Molecular Dynamics Study

    Creator:
    Mirkoohi, Elham
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    Sintering of nanoparticles to create films and patterns of functional materials is emerging as a key manufacturing process in applications like flexible electronics, solar cells and thin-film devices. Further, there is the emerging potential to use nanoparticle sintering to perform additive manufacturing as well. While the effect of nanoparticle size...
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    key challenge in these sintering processes has been to control sintered material density and

  • A Permanent-Magnet Linear Generator Wave Energy Converter for Low Power Ocean Sensors

    Creator:
    Miles, Lillian F.
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    Renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly important due to their low environmental impact and limitless nature. This thesis explores the design of a 250 mW permanent magnet linear generator wave energy converter to power ocean sensors. While many wave energy converters exist, this is a unique application because the wave...
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    their low environmental impact and limitless nature. This thesis explores the design of a 250 mW

  • Evaluation of the predictive capability of two-phase flow maps for microchannel condensation of R-134a at low mass flux conditions

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    VanderPutten, Michael A.
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    Predicting condensation flow regimes and the associated heat transfer and pressure drop in microchannels is critical for designing terrestrial and space systems for heating, cooling, power generation, and advanced manufacturing. It is well established that in flows approaching the microscale (Dh < 1 mm) gravity-dominated flow regimes become less relevant,...
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    and pressure drop. Review of these flow maps shows that at microscale channel diameters and low mass

  • Shocks and Awe : Damping Selection in Racecars to Maximize Grip

    Creator:
    Takaro, Trevor M. F.
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    This thesis covers the use of a quarter car model to select damping rates for aFormula Student (FS) car, focusing on minimizing vertical tire force variation to improvegrip. A 2 degree of freedom (DOF) quarter car model is cycled over the road frequenciesof interest and the results compared with the...
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    cyclic road profile. These examples show linear springs with coefficient k and dampers c. Inerters

  • Offshore renewable energy : an exploration of techno-economic feasibility and reliability through a computational optimization perspective

    Creator:
    Clark, Caitlyn E.
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    Offshore renewable energy (ORE) has the potential to be a significant source of future global electricity production, reduce carbon emissions, decrease dependence on energy importation, and stimulate economic growth in coastal and remote areas. The availability and abundance of ORE, paired with growing coastal population centers, position offshore wind, wave,...
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    , romantic, and very human that we indulge in these passionate pyrotechnics…it is possible that we may be

  • How personality affects creativity in concept ideation

    Creator:
    Berthelsdorf, Friederich A.
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    This thesis uses the manuscript option, and consists of a previously-published paper and a paper that has been accepted for publication. Manuscript One details an independent confirmatory study to Choo et al. (2014), which demonstrated that correlations exist between personality type and the outcome of concept ideation methods. This is...
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    manuscripts are presented – one published and one accepted for publication. These detail research findings

  • Numbering-up of parallel microchannel arrays to megawatt scale supercritical CO₂ solar thermal receivers

    Creator:
    Hyder, Matthew B.
    Abstract:
    Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants have the potential to reduce the reliance on nonrenewable energies such as coal and natural gas and provide 24 hour, renewable electricity. A CSP system consists of a large field of heliostats that concentrate the sunlight on a centralized receiver, in this receiver a working...
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    biomass) of renewable resources, solar, geothermal, wind, and hydroelectric. These account for around