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Conduction Error In Thermocouples Embedded In Low Conductivity Material, Tumkur G. Nagaraju May 1971

Conduction Error In Thermocouples Embedded In Low Conductivity Material, Tumkur G. Nagaraju

Theses and Dissertations

Thermocouples are generally used as devices to determine the internal temperature of any material. The purpose of the temperature measuring device is to measure the temperature which would exist at some known location if the device were not present. The thermocouples are embedded in the material in order to study the temperature-time history of the point of location. The presence of the thermocouple induces error in the temperature measured. This error becomes significant if heat is conducted into or away from the point of measurement by the sensor itself, or if the sensor insulates the point. This would result from …


A Study In The Design And Development Of A Baseball Pitching Machine, Neal M. Lundwall May 1971

A Study In The Design And Development Of A Baseball Pitching Machine, Neal M. Lundwall

Theses and Dissertations

Throughout history man has had the need of services which require great skill or tremendous strength or delicate consistency on the part of those who perform. Much of the time he has turned to the machine to accomplish these requirements.


Transition From Laminar To Turbulent Flow For A Two-Phase Mixture, Mohammed Sharief Qureshi May 1971

Transition From Laminar To Turbulent Flow For A Two-Phase Mixture, Mohammed Sharief Qureshi

Theses and Dissertations

A phase is simply one of the states of matter. Multiphase flow is the simultaneous flow of several phases. Two-phase flow is the simplest case of multiphase flow.


A Computer Simulation Of A Partial Venous System Of A Human Lower Extremity, David C. Smith May 1971

A Computer Simulation Of A Partial Venous System Of A Human Lower Extremity, David C. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

The human body is truly a fascinating and complex creation of our Maker. Because of the complexity and variability, many of its workings were little known until recent years. Some of the more amazing facts of the circulatory system follow. If the individual blood vessels of a single adult, i.e., artery, arteriole capillary, venule and vein, were laid end to end, they would extend more than 60,000 miles. For the average adult, the heart beats 70 times per minute; for the well-conditioned athlete, 50-60 beats per minute; and for the extraordinary athlete, as few as 37 times per minute. The …


Transient Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient For Injection Into Rigid Vessel, James Edward Steiger May 1971

Transient Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient For Injection Into Rigid Vessel, James Edward Steiger

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to develop and demonstrate a method for experimentally determining the convective heat transfer in a rigid vessel while air was being injected. The heat transfer took place between the air in the pressurized vessel and the surrounding walls which were maintained at a temperature of 32 F. with a circulating ice water bath. The study considers the effects of injection geometry and injection flow rate on the heat transfer process. The problem of heat transfer after injection has been considered by Means (1), and was responsible for establishing this study. The experimental technique used …


History Of Utah's Salt Industry 1847-1970, John L. Clark Jan 1971

History Of Utah's Salt Industry 1847-1970, John L. Clark

Theses and Dissertations

Utah salt makers have extracted salt from three sources, the principal of these being brine from Great Salt Lake. Other sources are saline beds in Great Salt Lake Desert and subterranean halite formations in central Utah.

This study traces the development of methods used to recover and refine salt by the industry, in general, and by specific companies. It provides brief, historical sketches of the major corporations and the economic, legal, and environmental factors affecting their growth.

Utah produces about 1 per cent of the nation's salt, exporting over half of it from the state. The major factors limiting the …


The Design Of A Laser Doppler Velocimeter, Marlo R. Anderson Aug 1970

The Design Of A Laser Doppler Velocimeter, Marlo R. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

A relatively new method of measuring local velocity in a fluid stream has been devised which eliminates some of the inherent problems of the traditional methods. This method senses the Doppler shift of light scattered from a laser beam incident on particles suspended in the fluid. The Doppler shift is proportional to the particles (or fluid) velocity. This new technique has several distinct advantages over the more traditional methods of velocity measurement.


A Study Of The Effects Of Some Parameters Of The Galloping Of Electric Transmission Lines, Leland J. Coleman Aug 1970

A Study Of The Effects Of Some Parameters Of The Galloping Of Electric Transmission Lines, Leland J. Coleman

Theses and Dissertations

Freezing rainstorms coupled with moderate winds have often been observed to cause telephone lines and power transmission cables to begin bouncing up and down. This slow frequency high amplitude oscillation, or galloping as it is sometimes called, can build up to large amplitudes before the oscillation either damps out or persists at some constant amplitude. It has been reported by Edwards and Livingston [1] that the amplitude of galloping on transmission lines has been as large as forty feet. Galloping oscillations occur at relatively low frequencies; from .1 to 1 Hz. [1] near the natural frequency of the suspended cable.


A Dynamic Model Of A Small Manufacturing Company, Abraham John Aug 1970

A Dynamic Model Of A Small Manufacturing Company, Abraham John

Theses and Dissertations

A manufacturing company typically has the objective of maximizing the long-term value of its common stock while satisfying its customers. To achieve this, the company might increase the quantity and improve the quality of production. Since the company is operating in a dynamic environment, its policies should be dynamic also, to achieve its objective.


A Data Reduction Technique For Drag-Coefficient Data For Spheres, Stephen Thomas Merrell Aug 1970

A Data Reduction Technique For Drag-Coefficient Data For Spheres, Stephen Thomas Merrell

Theses and Dissertations

The object of this investigation was to obtain a reliable technique for finding the drag coefficient for a sphere falling at a non-constant velocity through air. And then to apply this technique to the data collected by R. G. Lunnon in 1925^(4)*.


An Optimization Technique Applied To The Determination Of Modal Damping Coefficients, Craig C. Smith Aug 1970

An Optimization Technique Applied To The Determination Of Modal Damping Coefficients, Craig C. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Although analytical techniques are generally available for the simulation of dynamic systems, often these techniques require a great deal of computer time and storage. This difficulty was vividly pointed out by a previous thesis undertaken in this Department by R. L. Webster (1). Mr. Webster undertook the determination of orthotropic material properties using dynamic response test data from plates. A major difficulty which was encountered was the enormous amount of computer time required for the simulation. This thesis is an investigation of a method which when fully developed, may provide the ability to simulate such systems much more efficiently.


Temperature Protection For Fruit Trees By Air-Supported Plastic Structures, Ram T. Gadhavi Jun 1970

Temperature Protection For Fruit Trees By Air-Supported Plastic Structures, Ram T. Gadhavi

Theses and Dissertations

The greatest weather enemy in all fruit destruction is the late spring frost which moves across the country under the high pressure areas that are occasionally seen on the weather maps, and kills the fruit buds.


Particle Dynamics In The Mixing Of A Particle-Laden Stream With A Secondary Stream In A Duct, William Doyle Cranney Jun 1970

Particle Dynamics In The Mixing Of A Particle-Laden Stream With A Secondary Stream In A Duct, William Doyle Cranney

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to review the history and discuss the present work being done in particle-gas flow, with application to air- augmentation of a particle-carrying, fuel-rich gas jet. A drawing of the model considered is shown in Figure 1, with the area of interest labeled. The thesis is intended as a thorough literature review and analysis.


Determination Of Effective Strain For The Strainhardening Of Aluminum Subjected To Completely Reversed Strain Combinations, Navin M. Patani Jun 1970

Determination Of Effective Strain For The Strainhardening Of Aluminum Subjected To Completely Reversed Strain Combinations, Navin M. Patani

Theses and Dissertations

It is known that subrecrystallization plastic deformation increases the strength of a metal. The amount of strengthening that may be acquired can be approximated using a strainhardening equation and a simple given strain. The purpose of this thesis was to determine the effective strain for predicting strainhardening for annealed aluminum subjected to completely reversed strain combinations.


Triaxial Stress Effects In Weldments Associated With The Heat Affected Zone, Rohit A. Mehta Jun 1970

Triaxial Stress Effects In Weldments Associated With The Heat Affected Zone, Rohit A. Mehta

Theses and Dissertations

The welding of steel occupies an important place as a major fabricating process in industry. The welding of steel has been a subject of research for many years, and much information has been obtained about the strength of weldments.


A Feasibility Study Of The Application Of Bondgraph Modeling And Computerized Nonlinear Model Parameter Identification Techniques To The Cardiovascular System, Randall L. Taylor Jun 1970

A Feasibility Study Of The Application Of Bondgraph Modeling And Computerized Nonlinear Model Parameter Identification Techniques To The Cardiovascular System, Randall L. Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend for people in the medical and engineering professions to couple their talents in a more united effort to better understand the functioning of the human body. This union of technologies has meant the introduction of new viewpoints and techniques in the field of physiological research. The engineers' basic tool, mathematical modeling, has perhaps been one of the most noticeable additions. There has been a significant amount of work done in recent years along these lines of deriving mathematical models to express the functioning of a subsystem of the body, and then, using analog, …


An Investigation Of A Computer Technique For Determining The Characteristic Parameters Of A Viscoelastic Model With Hysteresis Effects From Transient Experimental Data, Stephen Jack Clark Jun 1970

An Investigation Of A Computer Technique For Determining The Characteristic Parameters Of A Viscoelastic Model With Hysteresis Effects From Transient Experimental Data, Stephen Jack Clark

Theses and Dissertations

The object of this work was to develop a computer technique for determining the characteristic parameters of spring-mass system with hysteresis effects from transient experimental data. The technique was intended to be utilized to determine the parameters of models of systems where complex geometry and rate dependent properties would make a determination of the model parameters most difficult, and where the parameters typically obtained from static test would not characterize the rate dependent properties accurately.


A Survey Of Literature On The Pyrolysis Of Wood And Other Cellulosic Solids, Kenneth P. Sasine Jun 1970

A Survey Of Literature On The Pyrolysis Of Wood And Other Cellulosic Solids, Kenneth P. Sasine

Theses and Dissertations

The study of the ignition of wood and other cellulosic materials has resulted in the publication of a large amount of literature. As an aid in the planning and interpretation of future research, it was felt that a survey of a representative body of literature should be made. With this as its motivation, the present work was initiated.


An Optimization Technique Applied To The Determination Of Orthotropic Material Properties Using Dynamic Response Test Data, Ronald L. Webster Aug 1969

An Optimization Technique Applied To The Determination Of Orthotropic Material Properties Using Dynamic Response Test Data, Ronald L. Webster

Theses and Dissertations

A knowledge of the behavior of a material under loading similar to expected service loading is required before that material can be used effectively in the design process. Without sufficient mechanical properties data, the design process degenerates to a time consuming and often costly "build, test and modify" type of program. Obviously, this trial and error approach leaves much to be desired.


Optimization Of Physical Properties Of Hydraulic Cushion Cells For Vehicle Impact Restraint, William Evans Hughes Aug 1969

Optimization Of Physical Properties Of Hydraulic Cushion Cells For Vehicle Impact Restraint, William Evans Hughes

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, the United States has witnessed a vast expansion of its internal highway system. Concurrently the number of vehicles has increased as has the average yearly milage per vehicle. Unfortunately, along with increased vehicle use there has been an alarming increase in annual loss of life and property due to traffic accidents. Statistics verify that the modem freeway systems greatly reduce dangerous head on collisions but the rate of accidents due to collisions with fixed objects in or near the roadway has increased almost 50 percent in the past thirty years.^1 In 1966, about 13>300 deaths were …


A Computer Procedure For The Identification Of Beam, Spring, And Damping Parameters Of An N-Mass Model Using Transient Data, Lynn A. Christiansen Aug 1969

A Computer Procedure For The Identification Of Beam, Spring, And Damping Parameters Of An N-Mass Model Using Transient Data, Lynn A. Christiansen

Theses and Dissertations

If, however, one could develop a model for a given physical system, that is a model which can be described in terms of lumped masses, springs beams, and dashpots and then identify the parameter simply by processing acceleration data such as that obtained from drop tests or shaker tests, the task of identification is greatly simplified.


Analytical Study Of Heat Conduction And Thermal Stress In Solids With Pressure Dependent Contact Resistance, Dhruvkumar S. Patel Aug 1969

Analytical Study Of Heat Conduction And Thermal Stress In Solids With Pressure Dependent Contact Resistance, Dhruvkumar S. Patel

Theses and Dissertations

In the usual thermal stress analysis of a body, the stresses are found for a predetermined temperature distribution. In problems involving composite materials, thermal contact resistance between materials can significantly affect the temperature distribution. The contact resistance is normally a function of the contact pressure and thermally induced stresses can affect the temperature distribution. Thus in composite bodies the thermal stress problem and the heat transfer problem may be coupled and require a simultaneous solution of both problems.


Water Injection In An Automobile Gas Turbine Combustion System, Billy Ray Jackson Aug 1969

Water Injection In An Automobile Gas Turbine Combustion System, Billy Ray Jackson

Theses and Dissertations

"GENTLEMEN, JUNK YOUR ENGINES!" This title of a recent periodical article [1]* catches some of the expectation for the wedding of the Automobile and the Gas Turbine, The nuptials cannot be completed though, unless two problems are overcome: 1) high fuel consumption, and 2) high operating temperature. The first problem is solvable by the use of heat regeneration and much work has been done in this area [2][3] [4]. The solution of the second problem of high operating temperature was the basis for this thesis. The method of solution was by water injection into the combustion gases prior to entrance …


Ehv Ac Parallel Transmission Line Calculations With Application To The Near Resonance Problem, A. Norton Chaston May 1969

Ehv Ac Parallel Transmission Line Calculations With Application To The Near Resonance Problem, A. Norton Chaston

Faculty Publications

The use of shunt reactors with EHV transmission lines has introduced new problems, one of which is induction of high voltages on a de-energized circuit of two parallel lines. This paper presents the matrix equations used in developing a digital computer program which takes into account the effects of electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, distributed lines, and transposition. The computer program may also be used to calculate the effects of shunt reactors, series capacitors, and loads. The equations can be adapted to a wide range of applications, although the examples for this paper have been limited to the near resonance problem …


A Study Of Turbulent Heat Transfer From A Flat Plate With Transverse Temperature Variations, John C. W. Kwan May 1969

A Study Of Turbulent Heat Transfer From A Flat Plate With Transverse Temperature Variations, John C. W. Kwan

Theses and Dissertations

Heat transfer in turbulent flow from external surfaces has been investigated extensively in the past. Most of the theoretical and experimental work deals with a two dimensional boundary layer on isothermal or uniform heat flux surfaces with longitudinal temperature variation. However, little attention has ever been paid to the case in which the temperature of the plate varies transversely. This is a three dimensional problem due to the spanwise variation of the thermal boundary layer. The most elementary example of this is the boundary formed by the sudden temperature impulse that acts transversely across a flat plate as shown in …


A Study Of Turbulent Heat Transfer From Smooth And Rough Flat Plate Surfaces, Philip Tsungwen Lin May 1969

A Study Of Turbulent Heat Transfer From Smooth And Rough Flat Plate Surfaces, Philip Tsungwen Lin

Theses and Dissertations

Experimental investigations of the surface roughness effect on heat transfer have been extensively conducted since the initial work by Cope; however, they were mostly limited to internal flow geometries--circular tubes, annuli or rectangular ducts.


An Analysis And Comparison Of Linear Phase Bandpass Filters, Darrell L. Ash Aug 1968

An Analysis And Comparison Of Linear Phase Bandpass Filters, Darrell L. Ash

Theses and Dissertations

The ideal bandpass filter is defined as one which uniformly attenuates and delays all frequency components within the passband and effects zero transmission of all components outside the passband. For reasons which will be subsequently discussed, it is impossible to realize a stable lumped-element filter having this ideal characteristic. This has made it necessary to find ways to physically approximate such a characteristic. Some of the more widely used methods will be compared and analyzed in this paper.


An Experimental Investigation Of Proportional Braking, Rudolf Limpert Aug 1968

An Experimental Investigation Of Proportional Braking, Rudolf Limpert

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years automobile safety has become more and more important.The braking device contributes largely to the problem of safe driving.


Design And Operation Of Equipment For Impact Test Of A Hydraulic Cushion, Harshadbhai R. Patel Aug 1968

Design And Operation Of Equipment For Impact Test Of A Hydraulic Cushion, Harshadbhai R. Patel

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, experiments have been carried out to evaluate the performance of water-filled cushion cells used to attenuate energy of automobile collisions. The water-filled cushion cell is a vinyl plastic cylinder of 6 inches nominal outside diameter, 1/4 inch wall thickness, 40 inches length, closed at the bottom by a cast-in-place vinyl plug and partially closed by a bolted-in vinyl diaphragm at the upper end. These cells are designed to be installed in the path of a crashing automobile to absorb and dissipate the kinetic energy of impact. Properly designed cushions could be used as one means of saving …


Development Of A Generalized Structural Dynamics Computer Program, Val E. Simmons Aug 1968

Development Of A Generalized Structural Dynamics Computer Program, Val E. Simmons

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was the development of a generalized structural-dynamics computer program to calculate the response of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. The user of this computer program, having a limited background in matrix algebra and vibrational analysis, can gain numerical and graphical information concerning the dynamic response of multi-degree-of-freedom structures. The user, with a minimal amount of FORTRAN experience, will find this thesis ideally suited for his needs.