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Full-Text Articles in Mechanical Engineering
Parameter Estimation And Dynamic State Observer Design For Vapor Compression Systems, Travis D. Pruitt
Parameter Estimation And Dynamic State Observer Design For Vapor Compression Systems, Travis D. Pruitt
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Between cooling our house, our workplace, and keeping our food cold both in home and commercially (among other uses), the vapor compression cycle (VCC) is a common method for removing heat from various environments and it accounts for a significant amount of the energy used throughout the world. Therefore, with an ever-growing demand for more efficient processes and reduced energy consumption, improving the ability to accurately model, predict the performance of, and control VCC systems is beneficial to society as whole.
While there is much information available regarding the performance for some of the components found in VCC systems, much …
Design Optimization, Analysis, And Control Of Walking Robots, Wankun Sirichotiyakul
Design Optimization, Analysis, And Control Of Walking Robots, Wankun Sirichotiyakul
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Passive dynamic walking refers to the dynamical behavior of mechanical devices that are able to naturally walk down a shallow slope in a stable manner, without using actuation or sensing of any kind. Such devices can attain motions that are remarkably human-like by purely exploiting their natural dynamics. This suggests that passive dynamic walking machines can be used to model and study human locomotion; however, there are two major limitations: they can be difficult to design, and they cannot walk on level ground or uphill without some kind of actuation.
This thesis presents a mechanism design optimization framework that allows …
Reduced Order Modeling For Virtual Building Commissioning, Sean Rosin
Reduced Order Modeling For Virtual Building Commissioning, Sean Rosin
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Model order reduction can help reduce the time and monetary constraints associated with building commissioning and significantly decrease overall building energy consumption through virtual commissioning. This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of using reduced order models to simulate the overall building energy consumption, and to estimate the energy savings from control-based commissioning recommendations.
A case study building was modeled using a ‘Lumped RC’ thermal model with three thermal resistances and capacitances (3R3C) for the building interior and a 2R1C model describing the building foundation. Due to energy consumption being dependent on building systems, this model was coupled with a …
Cross Sections Used To Elucidate Differences In Wavelet Transforms Of Ground Force Reactions, Wesley John Orme
Cross Sections Used To Elucidate Differences In Wavelet Transforms Of Ground Force Reactions, Wesley John Orme
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
A study done for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that over 50% of sports related injuries are to the lower extremities [1] with additional studies indicating that females, adolescent through collegiate, have a higher rate of lower extremity sports related injuries than males [2-4]. Conditions surrounding non-contact injuries can be analyzed using ground reaction force (GRF) data from force plates during unanticipated single leg drops, however, the expected gender differences in GRF may not be apparent when viewing data independently in the time or frequency domains.
Graphing the results of a wavelet transform, currently used by scientific, medical, …