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Experimental And Finite Element Studies Of Shock Transmission, Eldon Jerry Goddard
Experimental And Finite Element Studies Of Shock Transmission, Eldon Jerry Goddard
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Composite materials are more widely used today in engineering products than ever before. Shock transmission in jointed composite sections needs to be investigated to understand the affect of composite materials on the dynamic response of the system. There exists limited published work on transient shock propagation through composite sections. The aim of this study is to analyze the transient behavior of joints in composite materials subjected to low impact loads and to develop a computational model that provides an improved physics based shock model. The jointed connection will be investigated experimentally and using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The bolted joint …
Drape Forming Machine, Adam Johnson, Will Schlosser, Brian Miller
Drape Forming Machine, Adam Johnson, Will Schlosser, Brian Miller
Mechanical Engineering
The goal of this project was to build a prototype machine that formed multiple sheets of debulked pre-preg OOA carbon fiber into a 2-foot long trapezoidal shape. The machine was required to do this process semi-automatically.