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Multivariate Time Series Pattern Recognition Using Machine Learning And Deep Learning Methods, Sai Abhishek Devar Dec 2019

Multivariate Time Series Pattern Recognition Using Machine Learning And Deep Learning Methods, Sai Abhishek Devar

Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Theses - Archive

In this research work, we have implemented machine learning & deep-learning algorithms on real-time multivariate time series datasets in the manufacturing & health care fields. The research work is organized in two case-studies. The case study-1 is about rare event classification in multivariate time series in a pulp and paper manufacturing industry, data was collected of multiple sensors at each stage of production line, the data contains a rare event of paper break that commonly occurs in the industry. For preprocessing we have implemented sliding window approach for calculating first order difference method to capture the variation in the data …

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Characterization Of Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Copper Nano-Particles Infused Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (Abs)- 3d Printed Specimens, Viswajit Talluru Dec 2019

Characterization Of Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Copper Nano-Particles Infused Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (Abs)- 3d Printed Specimens, Viswajit Talluru

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Now a days the use of metal nanoparticle infused polymer is becoming widespread, since the development of polymer with enhanced thermal properties are being used for the growth of electronic packaging industry. In this study, copper nanoparticles are mixed with the Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) thermoplastic in varying mass proportions, to observe the changes in thermal and structural properties of ABS. As expected, the extruded wire with high nano-particle concentration exhibited much higher thermal conductivity than its raw ABS form. For the case of 2% copper nanoparticle infused ABS using one dimensional steady state heat flux method though extrude wire …

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Design Of A Clc Testbed To Study High Voltage Capacitors, Christopher Francisco Martinez Dec 2019

Design Of A Clc Testbed To Study High Voltage Capacitors, Christopher Francisco Martinez

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Pulsed power systems rely on the interconnection of several unique stages for successful implementation. These stages can include, but are not limited to a prime power source, power conditioning circuit, intermediate energy storage, pulsed forming network, and the load. There are many possible intermediate energy storage devices that can be considered, two of which are inductive and capacitive. There are many advantages and disadvantages that each offer. Inductive energy storage is several times more energy dense than capacitive energy storage but most of the time, an opening switch is required to transfer the energy to the load and those are …

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Evaluation Of Fire-Affected Concrete Structures By Non-Destructive Testing Methods, Upal Mohammad Towfiqul Quadir Dec 2019

Evaluation Of Fire-Affected Concrete Structures By Non-Destructive Testing Methods, Upal Mohammad Towfiqul Quadir

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Fire hazard on concrete structures has been a significant concern around the world. After a fire hazard, the crucial part is the evaluation of the fire-affected concrete for strengthening or demolition. For evaluation of a fire-affected concrete structure, Non-destructive Testing (NDT) methods would certainly be a more viable option than the destructive testing methods. Until now, no specific code was developed for quantifiable evaluation of fire-affected concrete with NDT. To develop the method for Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) of fire-affected concrete, 8 small-sized (4 in x 4 in x 15 in) and 32 medium-sized (8 in x 8 in x 36 …

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Development Of A Machine Learning-Based Prediction Model For Construction And Environmental Costs Of Trenchless Spray-Applied Pipe Linings, Cured-In-Place Pipe, And Sliplining Methods In Large Diameter Culverts, Ramtin Serajiantehrani Dec 2019

Development Of A Machine Learning-Based Prediction Model For Construction And Environmental Costs Of Trenchless Spray-Applied Pipe Linings, Cured-In-Place Pipe, And Sliplining Methods In Large Diameter Culverts, Ramtin Serajiantehrani

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

According to U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration there are more than 4.1 million miles of road in total length, making it the world’s longest and biggest road network with millions of culverts hidden underneath the road in the United States. The development of underground infrastructure, concerns about environmental impacts, and economic trends are influencing society, resulting in the advancement of technology for more environment-friendly and cost-effective pipeline rehabilitation. Trenchless technologies employ innovative methods, materials, and equipment that require minimum surface excavation and access area for rehabilitation of old and deteriorated culverts. Trenchless technologies can be used when other …

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Accounting For Temperature Effects On The Performance Of Soil Moisture Sensors In Sandy Soils, Michelle Schwartz, Zhen Li, Toshihiro Sakaki, Ali Moradi, Kathleen Smits Sep 2019

Accounting For Temperature Effects On The Performance Of Soil Moisture Sensors In Sandy Soils, Michelle Schwartz, Zhen Li, Toshihiro Sakaki, Ali Moradi, Kathleen Smits

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications - Archive

Capacitance sensors are widely used to monitor volumetric water content in both field and lab settings due to their low cost, ease of use, and capability of providing continuous measurements. However, these sensors are sensitive to temperature variations. Previous attempts to develop calibration equations that negate thermal effects incorporate many empirical constants that vary based on soil and sensor type. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of temperature on sensor performance and develop an improved calibration equation for a widely used capacitance soil moisture/temperature sensor, the ECH2O 5TM. Small cell experiments were conducted with silica sands …

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Flexible Electrochemical Sensors Based On Iridium Oxide For Biomedical Applications, Xuesong Yang Aug 2019

Flexible Electrochemical Sensors Based On Iridium Oxide For Biomedical Applications, Xuesong Yang

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Considering the disadvantages of the costly, laborious, and time-consuming traditional clinical analyses, there is a tendency of developing non-hospital point-of-care which allows patients to monitor their health conditions conveniently at home. To optimize the convenience of the point-of-care instruments, a wearable device with the ability of detecting different biological components in different biological conditions is preferer. The device should also have the qualities of rapid analyses, high accuracy, and high sensitivity. To accomplish these requirements, we proposed a flexible electrochemical sensor based on iridium oxide (IrOx). As a noble metal, iridium oxide has the advantages of bio-compatible, stable, and corrosive …

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Affine Invariance In Multilayer Perceptron Training, Son Nam Nguyen Aug 2019

Affine Invariance In Multilayer Perceptron Training, Son Nam Nguyen

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Training methods for both shallow and deep neural nets are dominated by first order algorithms related to back propagation and conjugate gradient. However, these methods lack affine invariance so performance is damaged by nonzero input means, dependent inputs, dependent hidden units and the use of only one learning factor. This dissertation reviews affine invariance and shows how MLP training can be made partially affine invariant when Newton's method is used to train small numbers of MLP parameters. Several novel methods are proposed for scalable partially affine invariant MLP training. The potential application of the algorithm to deep learning is discussed. …

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Nonlinear Control Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With Cable Suspended Payloads, Ameya Godbole Aug 2019

Nonlinear Control Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With Cable Suspended Payloads, Ameya Godbole

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The research focuses on the mathematical modeling and control of an unmanned aerial vehicle with cable suspended payload. A comprehensive mathematical model is derived for a quadcopter with a cable suspended payload using the Newton-Euler method and the Euler-Lagrange formulation. These methods assume that the cable is massless and always taut and cannot be used to simulate the cases when the cable is flexible. Hence, an alternative approach to model the flexibility of the cable is presented using Lagrangian mechanics by approximating the cable to be a chain of serially connected links. The motion of the payload induces disturbances on …

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Modeling And Simulation Of Contact And Impact Dynamics In Multibody Systems, Abhishek Chatterjee Aug 2019

Modeling And Simulation Of Contact And Impact Dynamics In Multibody Systems, Abhishek Chatterjee

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Contact and impact analyses are an essential part of multibody dynamic simulations. Modeling of contact and impact problems have applications in a wide variety of areas including robotics, earthquake engineering, computer graphics, and manufacturing. Collisions between objects typically take place over surfaces that are represented by a set of points in the operation space, thereby requiring multi-point contact and impact analysis. Analysis of multi-point contact and impact may lead to indeterminate (underdetermined) problems with more number of unknowns (contact forces) than equations. This work pertains to the problem of resolving multi-point contact and impact problems in multibody systems consisting of …

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Numerical Simulation Of Biodiesel Synthesis In A Continuous Flow Microreactor And A Porous Media Reactor, Terdsak Neadkratoke Aug 2019

Numerical Simulation Of Biodiesel Synthesis In A Continuous Flow Microreactor And A Porous Media Reactor, Terdsak Neadkratoke

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Biodiesel has become an increasingly popular fossil fuel substitute in recent years. Constant attempts are being made to develop new technology that increases the efficiency and yield of biodiesel production units. Numerical simulation can play an integral role in evaluating new reactor designs or optimizing existing ones. Various attempts have been made to develop an accurate computational model that represents biodiesel production. Many computational models for transesterification are based on simplified kinetic models that do not include the effect of saponification. Furthermore, many models assume isothermal conditions and uniform spatial concentrations. Therefore, these models would not be appropriate for evaluating …

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Predicting Crack Initiation And Early Crack Growth Behavior Of Pure Nickel Using Surface Topography Analysis, Jalal Fathi Sola Aug 2019

Predicting Crack Initiation And Early Crack Growth Behavior Of Pure Nickel Using Surface Topography Analysis, Jalal Fathi Sola

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Fatigue has long been studied as the most critical loading mode for man-made structures. Despite the advances in material behavior characterization and numerical calculation, many structures unexpectedly fail before their designed life. Most of the studies in crack initiation are solely for describing the material and failure behavior and are not capable of predicting the failure before it starts. In addition, most of the fatigue crack growth models are based on the Paris Model with some modifications, which their application is limited to long crack. This implies that finding new methods which can reliably predict material failure is very important. …

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A Numerical Study Of Cavitating Flows Based On Plic-Vof Method For Arbitrary Unstructured Meshes, Dezhi Dai Aug 2019

A Numerical Study Of Cavitating Flows Based On Plic-Vof Method For Arbitrary Unstructured Meshes, Dezhi Dai

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Cavitation appears when local static pressure drops below the water vapor pressure and causes significant impacts on marine propeller blades. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method, which is also referred to as the Transport Equation-based Model (TEM), has been extensively adopted in the cavitating flow simulations. Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC) schemes have been extensively employed in the VOF method for interface capturing in numerical simulations of multiphase flows. Polyhedral unstructured meshes are often adopted due to their geometric flexibility and superiority in gradient calculation. Four analytical interface reconstruction algorithms in the PLIC-VOF method for arbitrary convex polyhedral cells have …

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The Effect Of Controlled Nanomaterial Deposition Towards Electrodes For Microbial Fuel Cells And Electrolysis Cells, Bryan Dennis Steinhoff Aug 2019

The Effect Of Controlled Nanomaterial Deposition Towards Electrodes For Microbial Fuel Cells And Electrolysis Cells, Bryan Dennis Steinhoff

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are relatively new energy harvesting technologies that utilize the bacteria in wastewater or other organic-rich aqueous media to produce either electricity or hydrogen gas, respectively. Given that MFCs and MECs are newer technologies, there has been many works over the past two decades that have provided understanding into how modifying electrode surface chemistry can improve these cells. It has been widely known that increasing the surface functional groups of MFC anodes, either chemically or thermally, causes the cell power density to increase dramatically. Since MFCs and MECs use the same anodes, …

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Multi-Variable Optimization To Improve Temperature Uniformity In Burn-In Applications Subjected To Significant Thermal Shadowing, Ajinkya Suhas Mahajan Aug 2019

Multi-Variable Optimization To Improve Temperature Uniformity In Burn-In Applications Subjected To Significant Thermal Shadowing, Ajinkya Suhas Mahajan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Burn-in test typically employs voltage and/or temperature to accelerate the appearance of latent reliability defects in semiconductor devices. As a result, burn-in becomes a critical step in the parts screening process and is the primary technique to eliminate defective parts in the early phase of the product life. Thermal control in burn-in processes is generally achieved by either active or passive thermal controlling. In an active thermal control, each device has an individual temperature monitoring system to maintain a specific temperature in which the cooling/heating of each socket is controlled by an individual fan or heater. Whereas in passive thermal …

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An Exploratory Study On Continuous Wave Laser And High-Speed Camera Combination In Planar Particle Image Velocimetry For Low Speed Flows, Bunyamin Gencler Aug 2019

An Exploratory Study On Continuous Wave Laser And High-Speed Camera Combination In Planar Particle Image Velocimetry For Low Speed Flows, Bunyamin Gencler

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

This study investigates the feasibility of using continuous wave lasers and high-speed CMOS cameras together in 2D particle image velocimetry (PIV) which is a widely-used non-intrusive method in experimental aerodynamics. In order to validate the setup, laminar and turbulent boundary layers over a flat plate with elliptical leading edge are examined in a low-speed wind tunnel. Before the experiments, the suitability of the elliptical-nose flat plate is determined (i.e. pressure gradient over the surface and separation), and the free-stream conditions (flow velocity and test section turbulence) are measured. To strengthen the validation of the setup, numerical simulations are added to …

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Effect Of Sulfur - Porous Carbon Cathode Morphology On The Discharge Process In Lithium-Sulfur Battery, Sabarinathan Pushparajsubramaniyan Aug 2019

Effect Of Sulfur - Porous Carbon Cathode Morphology On The Discharge Process In Lithium-Sulfur Battery, Sabarinathan Pushparajsubramaniyan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

In the present era, Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are most commonly used in all electronic devices, but the demand for alternative energy increases rapidly due to the catastrophic climate caused by excess use of fossil fuels in automobiles. Li-ion batteries cannot fully satisfy the need as its theoretical capacity is low, and the cathode cost is high. On the other hand, Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery meets the requirement with the highest theoretical capacity of Sulfur 1672 mAh/g. Lithium anode and Sulfur cathode together form to be having the highest energy density. The highest energy capacity of Sulfur is achieved by the conversion …

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Comparative Cfd Analysis Of The Effect Of Air And Liquid Cooling On The Form Factor Of Gpu Server, Ankit Bharatkumar Sutaria Aug 2019

Comparative Cfd Analysis Of The Effect Of Air And Liquid Cooling On The Form Factor Of Gpu Server, Ankit Bharatkumar Sutaria

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Artificial intelligence (AI) has becoming an important area which may significantly impact everyone’s daily life. This means a lot of high-performance chips such as high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA (Field-programmable gate array), ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) devices may need. The thermal design power (TDP) of these chips are high, and now it is very common to see a processor TDP reaches as high as 300Watts[1]. When these high-power density processors are packaged together, the power density of the servers and compute boxes are significantly high. Traditional air-cooling is approaching its cooling capability limitation, especially when a cluster of racks is …

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Design And Optimization Of Additively Manufactured Heat Sink And Heat Spreader For Microelectronics Cooling, Aditya Krishna Ganesh Ram Aug 2019

Design And Optimization Of Additively Manufactured Heat Sink And Heat Spreader For Microelectronics Cooling, Aditya Krishna Ganesh Ram

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

High performance cooling is a critical requirement for modern microprocessors that generate large amounts of non-uniformly distributed heat. Metal heat spreaders and heat sinks have been traditionally used for thermal management. While the design of these components has traditionallly been restricted by manufacturability, in recent years, additive manufacturing has offered the capability to manufacture almost any design. This work analyzes and optimizes the performance of an additively manufactured heat sink and heat spreader. Computational heat transfer simulations were carried out to understand the variation of chip temperature and pressure drop for various designs. Discussion of key findings include the thermal …

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Molecular Dynamics (Md) Thermal Simulations Of Molecular Bridging Across The Cathode-Separator Interface In Li-Ion Cell, Abhijeet Sundarrao Dhakane Aug 2019

Molecular Dynamics (Md) Thermal Simulations Of Molecular Bridging Across The Cathode-Separator Interface In Li-Ion Cell, Abhijeet Sundarrao Dhakane

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

While Li-ion cells show outstanding electrochemical performance, their poor thermal transport characteristics results in reduced performance as well as significant safety concerns. The heterogeneous interface between cathode and separator plays a vital role in the dissipation of heat within a Li-ion cell. Previous studies showed that the cathode-separator interfacial thermal resistance contributes around 88% of total thermal resistance within the cell. In this research, thermal conductance across the cathode-separator interface is calculated using molecular dynamics simulations. Thermal transport in a pristine heterogeneous interface as well as interfaces functionalized with monolayers of APTES, nBTMS and MPTMS molecules is studied. The impact …

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Design, Development, And Validation Of A Novel Optical Imaging Device For Biomedical Applications, Ashley Christine Dacy Aug 2019

Design, Development, And Validation Of A Novel Optical Imaging Device For Biomedical Applications, Ashley Christine Dacy

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Fluorescence and luminescence imaging are two promising optical techniques for diagnosing a variety of critical pathologies in vivo, including wound healing, inflammation, and vascular diseases. Despite this, there is a lack of imaging devices in research and commercially available that are capable of these imaging modalities in large animal applications. This work describes the progressive development of several optical imaging devices to fill this void, culminating in a final design with robust fluorescence and luminescence functionality designed for large animal and human applications. These devices are used to gather new data about various physical parameters in small and large animal …

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Ultrasound Switchable Fluorescence Imaging Based On A Time Gated Iccd Camera, Shuai Yu Aug 2019

Ultrasound Switchable Fluorescence Imaging Based On A Time Gated Iccd Camera, Shuai Yu

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Ultrasound switchable fluorescence (USF) imaging has been proposed as a novel imaging modality which provides microscopic fluorescence imaging in centimeter-deep tissue. USF is possible to reveal many interesting phenomena such as microcirculation, tumor angiogenesis, and cancer metastasis and diagnose early-stage cancer. USF adopts a focused ultrasound (FU) to repetitively switch “on” fluorescent agents in tissue, and the USF photons scatter out and are captured by a detector. A USF image provides acoustic resolution and optical sensitivity. In USF, there are two key components: 1) an excellent USF contrast agent; and 2) a sensitive USF imaging system. The major challenge of …

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Novel Analysis Of Wavelet Coherence And Phase-Amplitude Coupling To Investigate The Human Brain At Four Vigilance States, Seyedeh Parisa Rabbani Aug 2019

Novel Analysis Of Wavelet Coherence And Phase-Amplitude Coupling To Investigate The Human Brain At Four Vigilance States, Seyedeh Parisa Rabbani

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Despite breakthroughs in the field of neuroimaging, there remain many unanswered questions about brain functions and activities and their underlying physiological processes. In my dissertation research, I examined brain functions while human subjects experienced four vigilance states: (1) resting state with eyes open, (2) resting awake state with eyes closed, (3) sleep stage 1 and (4) sleep stage 2. Simultaneous dual modality measurements using electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) were acquired during the aforementioned vigilance states. Specifically, I examined brain processes from two different perspectives: brain hemodynamics (blood flow) and electrophysiology (brain waves). My dissertation had three …

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Development And Investigation Of Fluorescence Imaging Probes, Bahar Saremi Aug 2019

Development And Investigation Of Fluorescence Imaging Probes, Bahar Saremi

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Fluorescence imaging has attracted much attention due to high sensitivity, spatial and temporal resolution, and fast acquisition time, for imaging biomolecular processes and for diagnosis of diseases such as cancer in early stages. Fluorescence imaging in centimeter-deep tissue suffers from low spatial resolution because of the strong scattering of light. On the other hand ultrasound imaging benefits from 1000 times less scattering in the tissue and deep penetration. Ultrasound switchable fluorescence imaging is a relatively new imaging modality that combines the sensitivity of optical imaging with the depth of penetration of ultrasound imaging while preserving the resolution by only eliciting …

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Lung Cancer Targeted Chemotherapy Via Herceptin Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor (Car) Engineered T Cell Membrane Coated Synthetic Nanoparticles, Serkan Yaman Aug 2019

Lung Cancer Targeted Chemotherapy Via Herceptin Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor (Car) Engineered T Cell Membrane Coated Synthetic Nanoparticles, Serkan Yaman

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Cell membrane-derived nanoparticles recently caught attention due to their desirable features in drug delivery such as mimicking properties of native tissue and cells, avoiding systemic clearance, and alleviating foreign body responses. Besides nanoparticle technology, adoptive immunotherapy has emerged for its promising treatment modalities, including cancer specificity. Our long-term goal for this research is to develop a biomimetic drug carrier based on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) transduced T cell membranes. In the study, anti-cancer drug afatinib loaded poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) co-extruded with anti her-2 based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Jurkat T cell membranes. Anti her-2 CAR-T cells were produced by …

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Optimized Rehabilitation Of Water Pipe Networks Subjected To Earthquakes, Binaya Pudasaini Aug 2019

Optimized Rehabilitation Of Water Pipe Networks Subjected To Earthquakes, Binaya Pudasaini

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Earthquakes in the past and in the recent times have demonstrated the extreme vulnerability of the water pipe networks. The impacts of such earthquakes on the water supply network can lead to significant direct and indirect losses. These losses highlight the critical need for seismic rehabilitation of water pipe network. Despite such criticality, water supply network managers are often constrained in what they can do with the limited rehabilitation budget that they have access to. Majority of current models dealing with seismic vulnerability assessment of water pipes do not provide actionable insights to the utility managers for the seismic rehabilitation …

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Development Of Medical Devices For Diagnosing Cartilage Injury And Metastatic Cancers, Yi Hui Huang Aug 2019

Development Of Medical Devices For Diagnosing Cartilage Injury And Metastatic Cancers, Yi Hui Huang

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

My research focused on applying biomedical engineering techniques to diagnose different diseases and conditions. The results of these work led to one published paper and two submitted manuscripts which are summarized in Chapters 2, 3 &4. Briefly, in Chapter 2, my work laid emphasis on developing a method for early detection of cartilage injury. An apoptotic cell-detecting probe was fabricated by the conjugation of the apoptotic cell-binding peptide (CQRPPR) and a sulfo-cyanine7 N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (Cy7 dye). Both in vitro and ex vivo examination showed an excellent relationship between the number of apoptotic chondrocytes and probe binding affinity. Finally, using a …

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Application Of Tissue Engineering Techniques For Treating Cartilage Injury And Diagnosing Cancer Metastasis, Amirhossein Hakamivala Aug 2019

Application Of Tissue Engineering Techniques For Treating Cartilage Injury And Diagnosing Cancer Metastasis, Amirhossein Hakamivala

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

This study focuses on the application of tissue engineering techniques for the diagnosis of cancer metastasis, cartilage regeneration, and modeling of lymph node metastasis. Chapter 1 is an overview of tissue engineering strategies, and it describes how each chapter relates to the central theme. Chapter 2 describes the development of 3D lymph node (LN) mimetic for studying prostate cancer metastasis. The overall objective of this chapter was to develop a biosystem with the ability to mimic metastatic LN condition. Studies were first designed to uncover the critical cells types and chemokines responsible for cancer metastasis to the LNs. An LN …

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Development Of An In Vitro Tbi Models And Validation Of Nanodelivery For Restoration Of Disrupted Brain Endothelium, Edidiong I. Inyang Aug 2019

Development Of An In Vitro Tbi Models And Validation Of Nanodelivery For Restoration Of Disrupted Brain Endothelium, Edidiong I. Inyang

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) is a serious concern among military personnel and their families. Although the mechanisms responsible for disruption to the brain are not well understood, the development of reliable diagnosis along with effective therapeutic treatment is urgently warranted. Recent findings suggest that shockwaves produced by a blast can generate micron-size bubbles that subsequently collapse in the brain tissue. The collapse of microbubbles (referred to as microcavitation) may compromise the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Moreover, addiction to the psycho-stimulant drugs (PSDs), e.g. cocaine and alcohol which are known to cause toxicity due to oxidative stress, can …

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Evaluation And Prediction Of Energy Potential Of Landfill Mined Solid Waste, Rakib Ahmed Aug 2019

Evaluation And Prediction Of Energy Potential Of Landfill Mined Solid Waste, Rakib Ahmed

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Landfilling is the most popular waste disposal system worldwide; however, with increasing scarcity of materials, increases in land values, and the presence of non-engineered landfill sites in both the developing and developed world, landfill mining has been the recipient of special interest in today’s waste management practices. Therefore, the motivation of the current study was to evaluate the energy potential of mined landfill waste and develop a statistically significant mathematical model to predict its energy potential (calorific value). The current study was conducted by using the municipal solid waste (MSW) samples collected from the City of Denton landfill and the …

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