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Design Of Contact Line Friction Measurement Machine Apparatus, Seyed Kamran Najafi
Design Of Contact Line Friction Measurement Machine Apparatus, Seyed Kamran Najafi
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this project is to design and manufacture a high precision machine to directly measure the surface force of fluids. Knowing how to move droplets easier with less resistance can increase the potential of a wide range of applications and improve the performance of things such as self-assembly applications. This machine has the ability to measure forces of up to 100 N with a MEMS based sensor. The motion system on this machine moves a substrate underneath of a droplet for 100 mm and applies dragging force to the sensor. It moves with a controlled speed with high …