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Full-Text Articles in Mechanical Engineering
Hydromechanical Parameters Of River Sediment, A.M. Arifjanov, D.Sh. Allayorov
Hydromechanical Parameters Of River Sediment, A.M. Arifjanov, D.Sh. Allayorov
Irrigation and Melioration
The main problem today in irrigation canals is the danger of siltation, in this process it is important to correctly assess the factors affecting the throughput (hydromechanical parameters of sediment) and using their justification of the hydraulic elements of the flow. The article presents the results of theoretical studies of the main hydromechanical parameters (hydraulic fineness) of river sediments, in hydraulic structures, in particular in irrigation canals, which currently increasingly affect adversely moving water. It has been established that the hydraulic size entering the right bank irrigation sump of the Kokand hydropower complex varies in the range of 189-429 mm/s, …
Minimizing Control Circuits Using Logic Elements, R.T. Gaziyeva, A.M. Nigmatov, E.O. Ozodov
Minimizing Control Circuits Using Logic Elements, R.T. Gaziyeva, A.M. Nigmatov, E.O. Ozodov
Irrigation and Melioration
In this article considered information about contact and non-contact automation. In most cases, contact automation is used in many pumping stations. These phenomena are a power surge or voltage drop. And also the use of contact automation occupies a large place and inconvenience in operation. Non- contactless automation solves these problems. Pumping stations are usually designed with the calculation of their operation without permanent duty personnel. At large stations, a small staff is provided, which primarily carries out control functions. Set the automatic operation of pumping units. Often, automatic selection of switched-on units is carried out, reserve is withdrawn, station …
Importance Of Creating A System Of Land And Cadastral Data For Subjects Of Agriculture, К. Rakhmonov
Importance Of Creating A System Of Land And Cadastral Data For Subjects Of Agriculture, К. Rakhmonov
Irrigation and Melioration
The generation of electronic data using the land plot scheme while maintaining the land cadastre provides significant convenience for users. Based on this concept, the author explains the conditions, factors and elements of the formation of the contours of land within the land, which plays an important role in the land cadastral work. In particular, the elements of the contour of the earth, that is, the conditions and composition of the border, the area and the order of formation of numbers, are reflected in a separate figure. It is known that the composition of agricultural land plays an important role …
Method Of Determining The Parameters Of The Working Bodies Of The Centrifugal Fan Installed To The Sprayer, D. Dzhuraev, M.S. Halilov, I.Zh. Toirov, A.E. Urishev
Method Of Determining The Parameters Of The Working Bodies Of The Centrifugal Fan Installed To The Sprayer, D. Dzhuraev, M.S. Halilov, I.Zh. Toirov, A.E. Urishev
Irrigation and Melioration
The article presents the data of scientists who conducted theoretical and experimental research on centrifugal fans, they refined the calculations, improved technical characteristics and aerodynamic designs of centrifugal fans. Aerodynamic and technological schemes of centrifugal fans installed to the sprayer have been developed. The theoretical and experimental studies conducted by scientists are described: Nevelson MI, Cherkassky VM, Kalinushkin MP, Ivanov O. P., Turbin B. G., on the basis of which the authors developed a method for calculating the main parameters of the working bodies centrifugal fan. Based on the developed calculation methodology, the main parameters of the working bodies of …
Experience Of Creation The Combined Power Complexes On The Basis Of Renewable Energy Sources, R.A. Zakhidov, A.I. Anarbaev, D.B. Kodirov, F.H. Mukhtarov
Experience Of Creation The Combined Power Complexes On The Basis Of Renewable Energy Sources, R.A. Zakhidov, A.I. Anarbaev, D.B. Kodirov, F.H. Mukhtarov
Irrigation and Melioration
At the article the combined energy complexes based on renewable energy sources implemented in various countries is analyzed. The regime issues of the most efficient use of maximum generation of electrical energy from solar, wind, biogas sources at reserved diesel station are given. Designs of generator modules based on a kinetic energy buffer storage device for preserving the quality of electricity from renewable energy sources with frequent changes in electrical loads of consumers are considered.
Analysis Of Results Of Researches Of Electrotechnological Treatment Of The Cotton Trouble Up To The First Crop Collection, A. Muhammadiev, A.I. Pardaev
Analysis Of Results Of Researches Of Electrotechnological Treatment Of The Cotton Trouble Up To The First Crop Collection, A. Muhammadiev, A.I. Pardaev
Irrigation and Melioration
This article discusses the electrophysical characteristics of plants, more precisely the disclosure of the mechanism of electrical action on the plant through the study of the specific electrical resistance, as well as the task of developing the technological parameters of the electro-technological processing of crops. Knowledge of current value is given, passing through the minted and the rest of the cotton, determination of the negative impact of electrotechnological stamping of cotton on growth and development, yield, by electrotechnological method, including studies of the minted part of cotton, the death of the leaves, the seeds of the pests, the absence of …
Importance Of Creating A System Of Land And Cadastral Data For Subjects Of Agriculture, К. Rakhmonov
Importance Of Creating A System Of Land And Cadastral Data For Subjects Of Agriculture, К. Rakhmonov
Irrigation and Melioration
The generation of electronic data using the land plot scheme while maintaining the land cadastre provides significant convenience for users. Based on this concept, the author explains the conditions, factors and elements of the formation of the contours of land within the land, which plays an important role in the land cadastral work. In particular, the elements of the contour of the earth, that is, the conditions and composition of the border, the area and the order of formation of numbers, are reflected in a separate figure. It is known that the composition of agricultural land plays an important role …
Improved Demo Of Granular Flow, Said Shakerin
Improved Demo Of Granular Flow, Said Shakerin
All Faculty Articles - School of Engineering and Computer Science
No abstract provided.
Cal Poly Supermileage Dynamometer, Jacob Randall, Nate Deffenbaugh, Kyle Milgram
Cal Poly Supermileage Dynamometer, Jacob Randall, Nate Deffenbaugh, Kyle Milgram
Mechanical Engineering
Our senior project involves designing a chassis dynamometer capable of simulating variable loads for the Cal Poly Supermileage Vehicle (SMV) team. The chassis dynamometer we are developing uses an alternator to develop additional resistance that the vehicle will have to overcome while testing. To implement a control system for the variable load, we use an Arduino Nano paired with multiple sensors and drivers. This control system allows the user to select different levels of resistance that correlate with different road grades. We designed a custom Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that will contain all the electrical components needed for the control …
A Molecular Dynamics Study Of Transient Evaporation And Condensation, Zhi Liang, Anirban Chandra, Eric Bird, Pawel Keblinski
A Molecular Dynamics Study Of Transient Evaporation And Condensation, Zhi Liang, Anirban Chandra, Eric Bird, Pawel Keblinski
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
We Use Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations to Study the Transient Evaporation and Condensation of a Pure Fluid Ar in a Nanochannel. in the MD Model, the Evaporation and Condensation of Fluid Ar is Initiated by a Sudden Increase of the Temperature or Periodically Varying the Temperature in the Solid Substrate on One Side of the Nanochannel. in Both Cases, We Find the Transient Evaporation and Condensation Rates Obtained Directly from MD Simulations Are in Good Agreement with the Predictions from the Schrage Relationships. Furthermore, Our Analyses Show that the Kinetics of the Transient Heat and Mass Transfer between the Evaporating …
Design And Implementation Of Stewart Platform Robot For Robotics Course Laboratory, Trent R. Peterson
Design And Implementation Of Stewart Platform Robot For Robotics Course Laboratory, Trent R. Peterson
Master's Theses
A Stewart Platform robot was designed, constructed, and programmed for use in Cal Poly’s ME 423 Robotics: Fundamentals and Applications laboratory section. A Stewart Platform is a parallel manipulator robot with six prismatic joints that has six degrees of freedom, able to be defined in both position and orientation. Its purpose is to supplement parallel robot material covered in lecture. Learning objectives include applying and verifying the Stewart Platform inverse kinematics and investigating the Stewart Platform’s operation, range of motion, and limitations. The Stewart Platform geometry and inverse kinematics were modeled and animated using MATLAB. The platform was then built …
Effects Of High Freestream Turbulence And Conduction On Film Cooling Effectiveness Of Shaped Holes, Richard A. Macias Jr.
Effects Of High Freestream Turbulence And Conduction On Film Cooling Effectiveness Of Shaped Holes, Richard A. Macias Jr.
Theses and Dissertations
With technological advancements allowing higher turbine temperatures, film cooling continues to be an important research area. The Film Cooling Rig (FCR) was fitted with a turbulence generator to vary freestream turbulence intensity and length scale, enabling the effects of high freestream turbulence on overall effectiveness to be studied. A cylindrical hole and laidback fan-shaped hole were investigated over a range of Advective Capacity Ratio (ACR) for freestream turbulence intensities of 2%, 10%, and 15%. For a given ACR, increasing the turbulence intensity resulted in lower overall effectiveness values due to the larger heat transfer coefficient that comes from turbulent ow. …
Detonation Confinement In A Radial Rotating Detonation Engine, Kavi Muraleetharan
Detonation Confinement In A Radial Rotating Detonation Engine, Kavi Muraleetharan
Theses and Dissertations
Radial Rotating Detonation Engines (RRDE) have provided an opportunity for use of a pressure-gain combustor in a more compact form compared to an axial RDE. A successfully tested RRDE has operated over a wide range of test conditions and produced detonation modes with one, two, and three waves. The presence of multiple waves located the detonation waves to the outer radius, while one wave modes operated closer to the inner radius. Locating the detonation wave closer to the inner diameter resulted in less time for combustion prior to the radial turbine. Subsequently, this tended to decrease efficiency. To attempt to …
Theoretical And Computational Analyses On Transition And Turbulence In Purely Oscillating Pipe Flow, Ali Ahmed Abdulrasool
Theoretical And Computational Analyses On Transition And Turbulence In Purely Oscillating Pipe Flow, Ali Ahmed Abdulrasool
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses
The hydrodynamic instability of purely oscillating pipe flows is investigated in terms of the quasi-steady formulation assuming the temporal changes of the laminar base flow relative to disturbances are slow. A simple model equation is introduced to compare the exact solution of the current approach with those of the major theories dedicated for unsteady flows. The results of the analysis show that the quasi-steady assumption and the multiple scales method are more efficient and accurate than the formal Floquet theory in predicting the transient instabilities within a period in addition to the long-term growth or decay of disturbances. The most …
Internal Combustion Engine, Philippe D. Habets, Sam S. Flood, Paing Htet Lin, Jason Wu, Ricardo Cuevas
Internal Combustion Engine, Philippe D. Habets, Sam S. Flood, Paing Htet Lin, Jason Wu, Ricardo Cuevas
Mechanical Engineering
The goal of this project is to modify a Honda GX35 engine to improve its fuel efficiency and maximize its competitiveness in the Shell Eco-marathon competitions. This competition has tight restrictions on the type of fuel used to power the engine, but otherwise has very few rules limiting the type of modifications which may be made. Our primary goals are to maximize volumetric efficiency and maintain an efficient operating temperature. Future work might pursue more advanced technologies such as pseudo-atkinson cycle operation.
Me-Em Enewsbrief, March 2020, Department Of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University
Me-Em Enewsbrief, March 2020, Department Of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering eNewsBrief
No abstract provided.
Supermileage Vehicle Drivetrain Design, Griffin M. Kraemer, Kai Meter, Arya Mahdavian
Supermileage Vehicle Drivetrain Design, Griffin M. Kraemer, Kai Meter, Arya Mahdavian
Mechanical Engineering
The current Cal Poly Supermileage team has faced issues regarding the efficiency and durability of their SMV vehicle’s drivetrain. After conducting research to solve their current issues, we developed a final drivetrain configuration that will improve the performance and life of the vehicle. This report outlines some of the completed research including: a table of designs used by other teams, a table of patents that can be applied to our design, and a list of technical literature we can use to better our design. It also summarizes our goals and objectives, including a table of the engineering specifications of the …
Utilization And Standardization Of Beverage Based Containers, Michael T. Bobke, Jack C. Maughan, Kenia Vargas
Utilization And Standardization Of Beverage Based Containers, Michael T. Bobke, Jack C. Maughan, Kenia Vargas
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
The purpose of this document is to formally describe and explain all of the decisions associated with the data collection and analysis for this Cal Poly Senior Project. Throughout the project, we will utilize and hone the skills that each team member has developed during our time in Cal Poly's Engineering program. In addition, this document will briefly describe some of Blue Diamond’s history as one of the biggest almond companies in the world. The statement of work will introduce and describe the current status of the beverage base container process and international beverage container design. Next it will discuss …
Rebar Impalement Safety, Spencer C. Nefores, Steven M. Hoover
Rebar Impalement Safety, Spencer C. Nefores, Steven M. Hoover
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
This project is sponsored by Webcor with the purpose of finding a better solution to rebar impalement safety. The current rebar impalement safety caps being used by Webcor were found to frequently fall off after being installed. This results in workers being exposed to the hazard for longer than desired. The research that has been done by the team showed that rebar impalement is a serious hazard and results in injury or death every year. Site visits and interviews were performed to aid in understanding the problem and designing solutions. The customer needs, current state of the problem, existing solutions, …
Parklets San Luis, Owen Kenny, Preston Jag Stebel, Leonidas Goodman, Lukas Braun
Parklets San Luis, Owen Kenny, Preston Jag Stebel, Leonidas Goodman, Lukas Braun
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Downtown San Luis Obispo has been a popular destination for tourists, students, families, and roadtrippers. However, according to Ryan Betz, Interim Assistant to the City Manager, foot traffic and retail business revenue has been decreasing. Downtown SLO does not have enough free public spaces. Recent projects such as sidewalk bump outs and lighted crosswalks have aimed at making SLO more pedestrian accessible, but they have not actually made downtown more pleasurable. These projects have not seemed to drive any more business or traffic downtown. There are a myriad of ways to rectify this; studies show that having a free place …
Hydronic Service Valve Product Development, Mark Hunsaker
Hydronic Service Valve Product Development, Mark Hunsaker
Construction Management
Since the inception of modern mechanical and HVAC systems, maintenance and repairs have been prevalent in both contracting and facility operations. The average life of HVAC equipment is fractional compared to the life of buildings as construction technologies improve. Traditionally, the serviceability of heating and cooling equipment has entailed the significant amounts of labor and materials to disruptively drain or freeze hydronic systems in order to cut in means of bypassing the main system, swapping out equipment, or repair. The intent of this project is to explore alternative methods to forgo the aforementioned negative impacts of service and to improve …
Distributed Adaptive State Estimation And Tracking By Using Active-Passive Sensor Networks, Akhilesh Raj, Sarangapani Jagannathan, Tansel Yucelen
Distributed Adaptive State Estimation And Tracking By Using Active-Passive Sensor Networks, Akhilesh Raj, Sarangapani Jagannathan, Tansel Yucelen
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
Heterogeneous sensor networks (HSN) find a wide range of applications in the field of military and civilian environments, where sensor nodes are utilized to estimate the position of a target with both dynamics and control input being unknown for the purposes of tracking. In the HSN, nodes are considered active depending upon their ability to sense the target output while the others are taken passive. Accurate estimation requires local information exchange among the spatially located sensor nodes, so that the active nodes as well as the passive nodes converge simultaneously to the same value. The local information exchange among the …
Design And Development Of A Robotic Platform For General Neurosurgical Procedures, Mehbodniya Amir Hossein
Design And Development Of A Robotic Platform For General Neurosurgical Procedures, Mehbodniya Amir Hossein
Student Works (2020-2029)
For the first time in 1985, robots were introduced to the neurosurgical operating rooms. Since then this field of robotics have advanced with new technologies with better accuracy and safety. However, developing robots for neurosurgery is a challenging task due to the sensitive nature of these applications and additionally their high cost of development. A typical neurosurgical robot costs millions of dollars in 2018, even though the costs of components and calculations have been lowered tremendously. This is mainly due to focus of current neurosurgical robots on few highly precise and specific surgical tasks which makes their use limited. In …
Design And Analysis Of A Compact Combustor For Integration With A Jetcat P90 Rxi, Daniel Holobeny
Design And Analysis Of A Compact Combustor For Integration With A Jetcat P90 Rxi, Daniel Holobeny
Theses and Dissertations
Ultra Compact Combustors are a novel approach to modern gas turbine combustor designs that look to reduce the overall combustor length and weight. A previous study integrated an Ultra Compact Combustor into a JetCat P90 RXi turbine engine and achieved self-sustained operation with a length savings of 33% relative to the stock combustor. However, that combustor could not operate across the full stock engine performance range due to flameout at increased mass ow rates as reactions were pushed out of the primary zone. To ensure reactions stayed in the primary zone, a new design with a larger combustor volume was …
Lip Thrust Apparatus, Ian M. Wilson, Alvin K. Cheong
Lip Thrust Apparatus, Ian M. Wilson, Alvin K. Cheong
Mechanical Engineering
This document contains the background information, defined scope of work, preliminary design philosophy, conceptual design development, and final design choices along with its corresponding manufacturing and design verification plans. It also includes the preliminary testing and prototyping necessary in bringing our verification prototype to its final configuration for delivery. Finally, it includes the entire manufacturing process followed in creating the final project and the extensive testing performed to ensure it meets the defined engineering specifications. The aerodynamic phenomenon being analyzed and demonstrated in our final deliverable can be seen in a scenario where when a propeller is enclosed in a …
Experimental Characterization Of The Electrostatic Levitation Force In Mems Transducers, Meysam Daeichin, Ronald Miles, Shahrzad Towfighian
Experimental Characterization Of The Electrostatic Levitation Force In Mems Transducers, Meysam Daeichin, Ronald Miles, Shahrzad Towfighian
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Scholarship
In this study, a two-step experimental procedure is described to determine the electrostatic levitation force in MEMS transducers. In these two steps, the microstructure is excited quasi-statically and dynamically and its response is used to derive the electrostatic force. The experimental results are obtained for a 1 by 1 plate that employs 112 levitation units. The experimentally obtained force is used in a lumped parameter model to find the microstructure response when it is subjected to different dynamical loads. The natural frequency and the damping ratios in the model are identified from the experimental results. The results show this procedure …
An Integrated Computational Materials Engineering-Anchored Closed-Loop Method For Design Of Aluminum Alloys For Additive Manufacturing, Saket Thapliyal, Mageshwari Komarasamy, Shivakant Shukla, Le Zhou, Holden Hyer, Sharon Park, Yongho Sohn, Rajiv S. Mishra
An Integrated Computational Materials Engineering-Anchored Closed-Loop Method For Design Of Aluminum Alloys For Additive Manufacturing, Saket Thapliyal, Mageshwari Komarasamy, Shivakant Shukla, Le Zhou, Holden Hyer, Sharon Park, Yongho Sohn, Rajiv S. Mishra
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
A closed-loop approach based on integrated computational material engineering was used to design, fabricate and characterize an Al–1.5Cu–0.8Sc–0.4Zr (wt%) alloy for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM). Finalization of composition and prediction of solidification behavior and mechanical properties were done using calculation of phase diagrams (CALPHAD) and analytical tools. The microstructure of the printed alloy in as-built condition consisted of crack-free regions with fine-equiaxed grains which was consistent with CALPHAD results. Yield strength (YS) of ~349 ± 8 MPa was also in more than 90% agreement with predicted YS. The findings demonstrate an efficient methodology for application-based alloy design …
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Suspension System For A Half Car Model: Analytical And Experimental Study, Doaa Ali Nasser Al-Yafeai
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Suspension System For A Half Car Model: Analytical And Experimental Study, Doaa Ali Nasser Al-Yafeai
Mechanical Engineering Theses
One of the essential techniques for energy harvesting is the clean energy collection from ambient vibration. Recently, piezoelectric energy harvesting systems became a hot topic and attracted many researchers. This is due to their simple structure, relatively high output power among the other mechanisms (electromagnetic and electrostatic), compatibility with MEMS, and operation in a wide frequency range. The main objective of the current work is to develop a mathematical model to evaluate the potential of harvesting power from the car suspension system. Quarter and half car models with a built-in piezoelectric stack were modeled mathematically using Laplace transformation and simulated …
Use Of Body Composition Imaging To Calculate 3-D Inertial Parameters For Inverse Dynamic Analysis Of Youth Pitching Arm Kinetics, Dalton James Jennings
Use Of Body Composition Imaging To Calculate 3-D Inertial Parameters For Inverse Dynamic Analysis Of Youth Pitching Arm Kinetics, Dalton James Jennings
Master's Theses
The objectives of this study were to 1) calculate participant-specific segment inertial parameters using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) data (referred to as full DXA-driven parameters) and compare the pitching arm kinetic predictions using full DXA-driven inverse dynamics vs scaled, DXA mass-driven (using DXA masses but scaled centers of mass and radii of gyration), and DXA scaled inverse dynamics(ID) (using the full DXA-driven inertial parameters averaged across all participants), 2) examine associations between full DXA-driven kinetics and body mass index (BMI) and 3) examine associations between full DXA-driven kinetics and segment mass index (SMI). Eighteen 10- to 11- year-olds pitched …
Hybrid Phase-Change Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Of Vapor Condensation On Vertical Subcooled Walls, Wandong Zhao, Yuan Gao, Ruijie Li, Songgang Qiu, Yin Zhang, Ben Xu
Hybrid Phase-Change Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Of Vapor Condensation On Vertical Subcooled Walls, Wandong Zhao, Yuan Gao, Ruijie Li, Songgang Qiu, Yin Zhang, Ben Xu
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
Saturated vapor condensation on homogenous and heterogeneous subcooled walls is presented in this study by adopting a hybrid phase-change multiple-relaxation-time Lattice Boltzmann model. The effects of wall wettability on the condensation process, including droplets’ growth, coalescence and falling, and the influence of vapor flow to condensation are investigated. The results demonstrate that the heat fluxes around the triple-phase contact lines are higher than that in other cold areas in homogeneous subcooled walls, which actually indicates the fact that filmwise condensation is preventing the continuous condensation process. Furthermore, the dropwise condensation can be formed more easily on the heterogeneous surface with …