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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Forecasting Nigeria's Electricity Demand And Energy Efficiency Potential Under Climate Uncertainty, Olawale Olabisi
Forecasting Nigeria's Electricity Demand And Energy Efficiency Potential Under Climate Uncertainty, Olawale Olabisi
Doctoral Dissertations
The increasing population and socio-economic growth of Nigeria, coupled with the current, unmet electricity demand, requires the need for power supply facilities expansion. Of all Nigeria’s electricity consumption by sector, the residential sector is the largest and growing at a very fast rate. To meet this growing demand, an accurate estimation of the demand into the future that will guide policy makers to adequately plan for the expansion of electricity supply and distribution, and energy efficiency standards and labeling must be made. To achieve this, a residential electricity demand forecast model that can correctly predict future demand and guide the …
Structural Stability Of Thermosets During Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing, Stian K. Romberg
Structural Stability Of Thermosets During Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing, Stian K. Romberg
Doctoral Dissertations
Over the past decade, the scale of polymer additive manufacturing has been revolutionized with machines that print massive thermoplastic parts with greater geometric complexity than can be achieved by traditional manufacturing methods. However, the heat required to print thermoplastics consumes energy and induces thermal gradients that can reduce manufacturing flexibility and final mechanical properties. With the ability to be extruded at room temperature and excellent compatibility with fibers and fillers, thermoset resins show promise to decrease the energy consumption, expand the manufacturing flexibility, and broaden the material palette offered by large-scale polymer additive manufacturing. However, structural instability in the uncured …
Interfacial Bonding Between Thermoset And Thermoplastic Polyurethane Reinforced Textile Grade Carbon Fiber: Structure Property Relationships, Surbhi Subhash Kore
Interfacial Bonding Between Thermoset And Thermoplastic Polyurethane Reinforced Textile Grade Carbon Fiber: Structure Property Relationships, Surbhi Subhash Kore
Doctoral Dissertations
The research work focused on examining the interfacial adhesion of unsized, epoxy, and urethane-sized textile grade carbon fiber (TCF) reinforced in different classes of polyurethane (PU) thermoplastic (TPU) and thermoset (TSU) polyurethane (PU) through the structure-property relationship. The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has produced TCF to reduce the cost of commercial-grade carbon fiber. The first part of the research examined the fundamental relationships between (a) soft segment thermoplastic polyurethane (S-TPU), (b) hard segment thermoplastic polyurethane (H-TPU), (c) thermoset polyurethane (TSU) and TCF reinforcement’s molecular behavior at the interface using the surface and thermal …
Innovations In Aligned And Overmolded Long Fiber Thermoplastic Composites, Shailesh P. Alwekar
Innovations In Aligned And Overmolded Long Fiber Thermoplastic Composites, Shailesh P. Alwekar
Doctoral Dissertations
Long fiber thermoplastic (LFT) composite materials are increasingly used in high performance lightweight automotive, sporting, and industrial applications. LFT composites are processed with extrusion-compression molding (ECM) and/or injection molding (IM). Melt extrusion offers unique opportunities to align long fibers in a thermoplastic polymer melt. The properties of LFT materials are highly influenced by processing techniques which leads to different porosity content, fiber length distribution, and fiber orientation distribution. Hence, it is important to understand the various LFT processing techniques and their effect on mechanical, thermal, and microscopic properties.
The fundamental process-property relationships in LFT composites are investigated in this dissertation. …
Assessing Mechanical Performance Of Dissimilar Steel Systems Made Via Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, Obed Daniel Acevedo
Assessing Mechanical Performance Of Dissimilar Steel Systems Made Via Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, Obed Daniel Acevedo
Masters Theses
Hot stamping is part of a specific type of metalworking procedure widely used in the automotive industry. This research seeks to help make hot stamp tooling component production more cost-effective by using large-scale additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing can produce dissimilar steel components that can be more cost-effective and time-efficient and allow for complex geometries to be made. A dissimilar steel system consisting of 410 martensitic stainless steel and AWS ER70S-6 mild steel is proposed to make hot stamps, making them more cost-efficient. However, the material interface's mechanical behavior in 410SS-mild steel additively manufactured material systems is not well understood. This …
Development Of Density-Functional Tight-Binding Methods For Chemical Energy Science, Quan Vuong
Development Of Density-Functional Tight-Binding Methods For Chemical Energy Science, Quan Vuong
Doctoral Dissertations
Density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) method is an approximation to the popular first-principles density functional theory (DFT) method. Recently, DFTB has gained considerable visibility due to its inexpensive computational requirements that confer it the capability of sustaining long-timescale reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations while providing an explicit description of electronic structure at all time steps. This capability allows the description of bond formation and breaking processes, as well as charge polarization and charge transfer phenomena, with accuracy and transferability beyond comparable classical reactive force fields. It has thus been employed successfully in the simulation of many complex chemical processes. However, its applications …
Process-Structure-Property Relationships In 3d-Printed Epoxy Composites Produced Via Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing, Nadim S. Hmeidat
Process-Structure-Property Relationships In 3d-Printed Epoxy Composites Produced Via Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing, Nadim S. Hmeidat
Doctoral Dissertations
Extrusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, such as direct ink writing (DIW), offer unique opportunities to create composite materials and novel multi-material architectures that are not feasible using other AM technologies. DIW is a novel 3D-printing approach in which viscoelastic inks, with favorable rheological properties, are extruded through fine nozzles and patterned in a filament form at room temperature.
Recent developments in DIW of polymer composites have led to expanding the range of materials used for printing, as well as introducing novel deposition strategies to control filler orientation and create improved functional/structural composite materials. Despite these substantial advancements, the successful and …
Approximation Of The Time Rate Of Consolidation For Hydraulically Placed Fine Coal Refuse Using A Variable Coefficient Of Consolidation Method, Cyrus Jedari, Eric Drumm, Angelica Palomino
Approximation Of The Time Rate Of Consolidation For Hydraulically Placed Fine Coal Refuse Using A Variable Coefficient Of Consolidation Method, Cyrus Jedari, Eric Drumm, Angelica Palomino
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Civil & Environmental Engineering
Terzaghi’s consolidation theory assumes strain in soil due to applied overburden pressure is small, and permeability and thus the coefficient of consolidation (Cv) remain constant during consolidation. Although valid for soft soil consolidation, the Cv for hydraulically placed slurry materials with low solids content may change significantly during the consolidation process as the material transitions from a slurry to a solid. In this study, a spatial and temporal variable Cv was used to predict the time rate of consolidation of fine coal refuse placed in an impoundment as a slurry. The results suggest the variable …