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Precursors And Processes For The Growth Of Metallic First Row Transition Metal Films By Atomic Layer Deposition, Lakmal Charidu Kalutarage
Precursors And Processes For The Growth Of Metallic First Row Transition Metal Films By Atomic Layer Deposition, Lakmal Charidu Kalutarage
Wayne State University Dissertations
As a result of the continuous miniaturization of microelectronics devices, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has gained much attention in the recent years. ALD allows the deposition of ultra-thin conformal films with accurate thickness control due to the self-limiting growth mechanism. The microelectronics industry requires the growth of metallic first row transition metal films by ALD. Due to the positive electrochemical potentials, the ALD growth of noble metal thin films has been well developed in the past. By contrast, the ALD growth of first row transition metal films remains poorly documented. The reasons for this scarcity include the lack of suitable …
Combustion Visualization And Particulate Matter Emission Of A Gdi Engine By Using Gasoline And E85, Po-I Lee
Combustion Visualization And Particulate Matter Emission Of A Gdi Engine By Using Gasoline And E85, Po-I Lee
Wayne State University Dissertations
In order to increase engine efficiency as well as to reduce emission, optimizing combustion is always the challenge in research and product development. Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines have been popularized due to its higher power density, fuel efficiency, and the possibility for advanced engine technologies over conventional port-fuel-injection (PFI) gasoline engines. However, many issues are heavily investigated, such as air-fuel mixing preparation, fuel wall-wetting, higher HC and PM emissions, catalytic convertor efficiency, knocking, and pre-ignition. Besides, advanced technologies represent higher production cost.
Because of the limited resource of petroleum-based fuels, ethanol is deemed as the alternative fuel for gasoline …
Global E-Mentoring: Overcoming Virtual Distance For An Effective Mentoring Relationship, Nancy Philippart
Global E-Mentoring: Overcoming Virtual Distance For An Effective Mentoring Relationship, Nancy Philippart
Wayne State University Dissertations
Mentoring can enhance an employee's career development and advancement but traditional face-to-face mentoring has become less relevant because of globalization, increased employee mobility and technology-enabled work. A new mentoring model enabled by technology has emerged to meet the needs of today's complex, fast changing global workplace. Although e-mentoring has several advantages over traditional mentoring, the absence of regular face-to-face interactions requires different strategies to develop an effective mentoring relationship. Moreover, additional complexities arise when this virtual mentoring is global.
This research utilizes the construct of virtual distance, the "psychological separation" that has been found to impact performance outcomes of geographically …
Communication Protocol Design Considerations For Highway Vehicle Platoons And Enhanced Networked Robustness By Stochastic Dithers, Lijian Xu
Wayne State University Dissertations
Highway platooning of vehicles has been identified as a promising framework in
developing intelligent transportation systems. By autonomous or semi-autonomous
vehicle control and inter-vehicle coordination, an appropriately managed platoon can
potentially offer enhanced safety, improved highway utility, increased fuel economy,
and reduced emission. This thesis is focused on quantitative characterization of impact
of communication information structures and contents on platoon safety. By
comparing different information structures which combine front sensors, rear sensors,
and wireless communication channels, and different information contents such
as distances, speeds, and drivers' actions, we reveal a number of intrinsic relationships
between vehicle coordination and communications in …
Vehicle Lane Departure Prediction Based On Support Vector Machines, Alhadi Ali Albousefi
Vehicle Lane Departure Prediction Based On Support Vector Machines, Alhadi Ali Albousefi
Wayne State University Dissertations
Advanced driver assistance systems, such as unintentional lane departure warning systems, have recently drawn much attention and R & D efforts. Such a system will assist the driver by monitoring the driver or vehicle behaviors to predict/detect driving situations (e.g., lane departure) and alert the driver to take corrective action. In this dissertation, we explored utilizing the nonlinear binary support vector machine (SVM) technique and the time series of vehicle variables to predict unintentional lane departure, which is innovative as no machine learning technique has previously been attempted for this purpose in the literature. Furthermore, we developed a two-stage training …
Parameter Identification And Fault Detection For Reliable Control Of Permanent Magnet Motors, Dusan Vukosav Progovac
Parameter Identification And Fault Detection For Reliable Control Of Permanent Magnet Motors, Dusan Vukosav Progovac
Wayne State University Dissertations
The objective of this dissertation is to develop new fault detection, identification, estimation and control algorithms that will be used to detect winding stator fault, identify the motor parameters and optimally control machine during faulty condition. Quality or proposed algorithms for Fault detection, parameter identification and control under faulty condition will validated through analytical study (Cramer-Rao bound) and simulation. Simulation will be performed for three most applied control schemes: Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID), Direct Torque Control (DTC) and Field Oriented Control (FOC) for Permanent Magnet Machines. New detection schemes forfault detection, isolation and machine parameter identification are presented and analyzed. Different control …
Influence Of Dissolved Hydrogen On The Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour Of Aisi 4140 Steel, Varun Ramasagara Nagarajan
Influence Of Dissolved Hydrogen On The Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour Of Aisi 4140 Steel, Varun Ramasagara Nagarajan
Wayne State University Dissertations
Many metallic structural components come into contact with hydrogen during manufacturing processes or forming operations such as hot stamping of auto body frames and while in service. This interaction of metallic parts with hydrogen can occur due to various reasons such as water molecule dissociation during plating operations, interaction with atmospheric hydrogen due to the moisture present in air during stamping operations or due to prevailing conditions in service (e.g.: acidic or marine environments). Hydrogen, being much smaller in size compared to other metallic elements such as Iron in steels, can enter the material and become dissolved in the matrix. …
Non-Linear Robust Observers For Systems With Non-Collocated Sensors And Actuators, Constantine Mastory
Non-Linear Robust Observers For Systems With Non-Collocated Sensors And Actuators, Constantine Mastory
Wayne State University Dissertations
Challenges in controlling highly nonlinear systems are not limited to the development of sophisticated control algorithms that are tolerant to significant modeling imprecision and external disturbances. Additional challenges stem from the implementation of the control algorithm such as the availability of the state variables needed for the computation of the control signals, and the adverse effects induced by non-collocated sensors and actuators.
The present work investigates the adverse effects of non-collocated sensors and actuators on the phase characteristics of flexible structures and the ensuing implications on the performance of structural controllers. Two closed-loop systems are considered and their phase angle …
Microvortices In Droplets: Generation & Applications, Gopakumar Kamalakshakurup
Microvortices In Droplets: Generation & Applications, Gopakumar Kamalakshakurup
Wayne State University Dissertations
The emerging field of droplet microfluidics deals with the manipulation of nL-fL droplets encapsulated within an immiscible carrier phase. The droplets are used as reaction containers for biochemical assays, enabling drastic reduction in assay volumes needed for modern life sciences research. To achieve this, basic laboratory processes such as mixing, detection, and metering must be emulated in the droplet format. Three important unit operations relevant to high throughput screening include 1) the concentration of particles and species within droplets, which is necessary for heterogeneous assays; 2) sensing the biochemical contents of a droplet; and 3) the sorting of droplets based …
The Design, Analysis, & Application Of Multi-Modal Real-Time Embedded Systems, Masud Ahmed
The Design, Analysis, & Application Of Multi-Modal Real-Time Embedded Systems, Masud Ahmed
Wayne State University Dissertations
For many hand-held computing devices (e.g., smartphones), multiple operational modes are preferred because of their flexibility. In addition to their designated purposes, some of these devices provide a platform for different types of services, which include rendering of high-quality multimedia. Upon such devices, temporal isolation among co-executing applications is very important to ensure that each application receives an acceptable level of quality-of-service. In order to provide strong guarantees on services, multimedia applications and real-time control systems maintain timing constraints in the form of deadlines for recurring tasks. A flexible real-time multi-modal system will ideally provide system designers the option to …
Elastic Stability Of Flexural Members In Civil Engineering Design, Alexander Lamb
Elastic Stability Of Flexural Members In Civil Engineering Design, Alexander Lamb
Wayne State University Dissertations
The elastic lateral torsional stability of flexural members is studied. The effects of moment distribution between supports and load height with respect to shear center are examined using numerical and analytical methods. From these methods, independent moment and shear factors are developed for a range of load types and load heights. A code comparison is performed comparing numeric results with those produced by AISC 360 to illustrate situations where issues occur in terms of strength prediction. A reliability analysis is performed from this data to quantify the difference in terms of the reliability index using a Monte Carlo Simulation. The …