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Performance Analysis And Life Prediction For Small Wind Turbine Blades: A Wood Laminate Case Study, Christopher James Nosti
Performance Analysis And Life Prediction For Small Wind Turbine Blades: A Wood Laminate Case Study, Christopher James Nosti
Master's Theses
A detailed study of the fatigue life of wooden wind turbine blades for a new 10 kilowatt system was undertaken. A numerical model of the blades was created using the technical software package MATLAB in order to estimate the maximum stress occurring within the blade in response to changes in wind velocities based on a wind profile approximating the location where these turbines are expected to operate. The material properties of the wooden laminate were measured using an Instron tensile test machine and were found to be in line with published values. In parallel with this effort, a three dimensional …
Manufacture, Characterization, And Application Of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Composite Crylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene, Daniel Ray Bortz
Manufacture, Characterization, And Application Of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Composite Crylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene, Daniel Ray Bortz
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
Carbon nanotubes have been studied for nearly two decades and their amazing properties continue to spur intense investigation in the area of polymer composites. In terms of potential commercialization, mutiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are currently the most prevalent and economically viable form of nanotubes. Uncovering innovative means to take full advantage of their properties remains a fundamental issue. In this thesis, viability of their use to reinforce polymeric systems is reported. Acrylonitrilebutadiene- styrene (ABS) was used as the host matrix. MWCNTs were introduced to the ABS matrix via melt compounding. The resulting composite was thoroughly rheologically, thermally, and mechanically characterized. …
Fatigue Fracture And Microstructural Analysis Of Friction Stir Welded Butt Joints Of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys, Vinay Raghuram
Fatigue Fracture And Microstructural Analysis Of Friction Stir Welded Butt Joints Of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys, Vinay Raghuram
LSU Master's Theses
Friction-Stir-Welding (FSW) has been adopted as a major process for welding Aluminum aerospace structures. Al-2195, which is one of the new-generation Aluminum alloys that has been used on the external tank of the new super lightweight external tank of the space shuttle. The Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS), Michoud Operations in New Orleans is continuously pursuing Friction-Stir-Welding technologies in its efforts to advance fabrication of the external tanks of the space shuttle. The future launch vehicles which will have to be reusable, m, an dates the structure to have good fatigue properties, which prompts an investigation into the fatigue behavior …
Fracture Toughness, Crack-Growth-Rate And Creep Studies Of Alloy 276, Joydepp Pal
Fracture Toughness, Crack-Growth-Rate And Creep Studies Of Alloy 276, Joydepp Pal
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Austenitic nickel-base Alloy 276 had been proposed to be a candidate structural material within the purview of the nuclear hydrogen initiative program. A mechanistic understanding of high temperature tensile deformation of this alloy has already been presented in an earlier investigation. The current investigation has been focused on the evaluation of crack-growth behavior, fracture toughness, stress-corrosion-cracking and creep deformation of this alloy as functions of different metallurgical and mechanical variables. The results of crack-growth study under cyclic loading indicate that this alloy exhibited greater cracking tendency with increasing temperature at a constant load ratio (R). However, the effect of temperature …