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Automobile Air Bag Inflation System Based On Fast Combustion Reaction, Yacoob Tabani
Automobile Air Bag Inflation System Based On Fast Combustion Reaction, Yacoob Tabani
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Current automobile air bag inflator technology is complex, expensive and environmentally unsafe. A new and novel air bag inflator based on fast combustion reactions of methane-oxygen mixtures has been developed and studied. The thermodynamics and mass flow parameters of this new inflator have been modeled and found to be in agreement with experimental results.
The performance of the fast combustion inflator was evaluated in terms of pressure-time relationships inside the inflator and in a receiving tank simulating an air bag as well as the temperature-time relationship in the tank.
In order to develop this fast combustion inflator, several critical issues …
Electrocatalytic Control Of Exhaust Soot, Victor L. Callahan
Electrocatalytic Control Of Exhaust Soot, Victor L. Callahan
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The feasibility of combining electrostatic precipitation and use of a catalytic wall in a straight tube reactor as a means of destroying soot particles was investigated. Enhanced particle diffusion to the wall by an applied electric field provided the means of particle capture for subsequent catalytic oxidation at the active surface in a small length tube.
Soot particles flowing in a gas stream are influenced by the following transport mechanisms: convective flux as a result of bulk flow, diffusion flux as a result of particle concentration or number density gradient, and an electrostatic flux from the coulombic attraction as charged …
Particle Deposition From Turbulent Flow In A Divergent Channel, Wai-Ting Huang
Particle Deposition From Turbulent Flow In A Divergent Channel, Wai-Ting Huang
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This dissertation presents a numerical analysis of particle deposition from a dilute gas-solid two-phase suspension in a divergent channel. The Lagrangian governing equations for particle motion include inertia force, viscous force, gravity force and image force from electrostatic charge on the particle. The incompressible two-dimensional turbulent flow field in a divergent channel is solved by employing a Κ-ε modeling technique with FIDAP finite element CFD software. A computational procedure is developed to incorporate the flow field into numerical simulation of particle trajectories from which the fraction of deposition is determined. Several divergent channels (half divergent angles of 0°, 7.5°, 10° …
Modeling Of 3d Swept Volumes Using Sde/Sede Methods And Its Application To Five-Axis Nc Machining, Liping Wang
Modeling Of 3d Swept Volumes Using Sde/Sede Methods And Its Application To Five-Axis Nc Machining, Liping Wang
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This research falls in two important areas in solid modeling and manufacturing automation: (1) swept-volume modeling; (2) computer-based NC (Numerically controled) machining simulation and verification. The swept volume is defined as the volume swept by an object undergoing an arbitrary motion. Modeling of 3D swept volumes includes the boundary computation and representation of a swept volume generated by a general object undergoing general motion in three dimensional space. The Sweep Differential Equation (SDE) and Sweep Envelope Differential Equation (SEDE) methods are two of the important swept volume modeling methods employed in this dissertation. They exploit differential equations to obtain the …
The Fatigue Problems Of Cracks Subjected To Obliquely Incident Stress Waves, I-Chung Weng
The Fatigue Problems Of Cracks Subjected To Obliquely Incident Stress Waves, I-Chung Weng
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Catastrophic failure of aircraft and other structures are often caused by undetected cracks. Fracture mechanics has been developed to augment traditional static and fatigue design. In the static theory of fracture mechanics, extensive treatment has been given to the stress distribution around sharp cracks and notches under various loading conditions. Previous works on the problems of dynamic loadings are not accurate in dealing with singularities at high frequencies. The numerical solutions become unrealistic at high frequencies in many practical applications.
To address the need to obtain the stress intensity factor in high frequency dynamic loading situations, we studied the use …
Analytical Solutions Of Openings Formed By Intersection Of A Cylindrical Shell And An Oblique Nozzle Under Internal Pressure, Hengming Cai
Analytical Solutions Of Openings Formed By Intersection Of A Cylindrical Shell And An Oblique Nozzle Under Internal Pressure, Hengming Cai
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Since several decades ago, many authors have published their research results about local stress distributions of shells and shell-nozzles both analytically and numerically. However, there has not been a published paper, which deals with analytical solutions of cylindrical shell and oblique nozzle, even though in the case of openings formed by intersection of a cylindrical shell and an oblique nozzle.
A comprehensive analytical study of local stress factors at the area of openings formed by intersection of a cylindrical shell and an oblique nozzle under internal pressure is presented in this dissertation.
By means of traditional approach in theory of …
Shaped Charges Having A Porous Tungsten Liner-An Experimental And Theoretical Study Of Metal Compression, Jet Formation And Penetration Mechanics, Brian Edward Fuchs
Shaped Charges Having A Porous Tungsten Liner-An Experimental And Theoretical Study Of Metal Compression, Jet Formation And Penetration Mechanics, Brian Edward Fuchs
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The use of porous tungsten as a liner for shaped charges to improve their penetration was proposed by Ki-Hwan Oh in his invention disclosure "Shock Extrusion of Ingots from Powders or Solids", at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro NM on June 7, 1988. The intention was to increase the ductility of the normally brittle metal by heating the liner to a high temperature by shock compaction during its acceleration just before jet formation.
The feasibility of increasing the ductility of tungsten in this way is the subject of the present study. The theory and prior experimental …