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Analysis On The Action Of Oxidant In Chemical Mechanical Polishing Of 304 Ultra-Thin Stainless Steel, Jianxiu Su Oct 2016

Analysis On The Action Of Oxidant In Chemical Mechanical Polishing Of 304 Ultra-Thin Stainless Steel, Jianxiu Su

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

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Analytical Investigation Of Fretting Wear With Special Emphasis On Stress Based Models, Arnab Jyoti Ghosh Mar 2016

Analytical Investigation Of Fretting Wear With Special Emphasis On Stress Based Models, Arnab Jyoti Ghosh

Open Access Dissertations

Fretting refers to the minute oscillatory motion between two surfaces in contact under an applied normal load. It can cause either surface or subsurface initiated failure resulting in either fatigue or wear or both. Two distinct regimes – partial slip and gross slip are typically observed in fretting contacts. Due to the nature of contact, various factors such as wear debris, oxidation, surface roughness, humidity etc. effect failures caused due to fretting. A number of different techniques have been developed to quantify fretting damage and several numerical models are proposed to predict damage due to fretting. Fretting wear also depends …


Use Of Natural Instability For Enhancement Of Flow Mixing In Annuli, Amirreza Seddighi Jan 2016

Use Of Natural Instability For Enhancement Of Flow Mixing In Annuli, Amirreza Seddighi

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

A technique has been proposed to increase flow mixing in annuli by means of vortex generation. Corrugations in the form of axisymmetric ribs are placed at the walls of annulus to modulate the axial flow which can potentially induce vortex instabilities. Unlike other vortex generation methods which suffer from relatively high pressure losses, this technique is expected to cause less pressure drop. Spectral algorithm based on Fourier and Chebyshev expansions has been used to study the stationary state and its stability. Due to the irregularities of the boundaries, the immersed boundary conditions (IBC) method is used to enforce the flow …


Prediction Of Surface Roughness In Abrasive Waterjet Cutting Of Graphite Composite Using Response Surface Methodology, Prabhakar Bala Jan 2016

Prediction Of Surface Roughness In Abrasive Waterjet Cutting Of Graphite Composite Using Response Surface Methodology, Prabhakar Bala

Masters Theses

"In the present work, surface roughness after machining of composite material was the main focus of study. Response surface methodology with Box- Behnken experimental design was applied in predicting the surface roughness (Ra) of abrasive waterjet cut 1-inch-thick graphite/epoxy composite. Second order response equations for Ra were generated with minitab, a statistical software as a function of pressure, traverse speed and isolated abrasive mesh size. Influence of each of these factors on the response were analyzed with 3D response surface plots. Abrasive mesh size was also found be a factor influencing Ra along with traverse speed and …