The traditional greases are composed of mineral or synthetic oil, thickening agent, additives, and fillers. Thickeners having fibrous matrices are generally made of fatty acid soaps (calcium, lithium, aluminum, sodium) and ...

Over the past three decades, engineers have developed piezoelectric composite materials that enable them to tailor the effective electromechanical properties for a specific application. These materials are manufactured by ...

AISI 409L ferritic stainless steel is a widely used engineering material owing to its low cost in spite of its corrosion resistance properties. It possessed high thermal conductivity and lower thermal expansion coefficient ...

Low power sensors are used in the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) configuration, real-time condition monitoring of turbine and propeller blades, so as for active vibration isolation of structures. The reliability ...

Flow forming is an incremental cold/hot forming process in which a ductile material is plastically displaced axially along a given mandrel, while the internal diameter remains constant and fixed with the mandrel. It ...

An experimental and numerical investigation of the three-dimensional turbulent wall jet is carried out for the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics for different devel oping initial conditions and different boundary ...

This dissertation compiles the development of an automated structural health monitoring (SHM) for a cantilever structure. Three methodologies for the structural health monitoring have been developed and validated. The ...