School of Mechanical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Inverse Design and Optimization Methods for Thermophotovoltaic Emitters made of Tungsten Gratings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)Periodic gratings utilized as emitters increase the efficiency of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems. These gratings work by altering the emittance spectrum incident on the photovoltaic cell to better match the band gap of ... -
A Comprehensive Study on Detector Modeling, Reactor Core Environment Analysis, and Fuel Burnup for the Lifespan of the Molten Salt Research Reactor
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-16)To provide an outline of molten salt reactor development history, and the importance of reviving this technology. From previous experience gained through the MSRE, build upon pre-existing instrumentation and monitoring ... -
Enhancement of Cavitation Intensity in Co-Flow and Ultrasonic Cavitation Peening
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-14)Water cavitation peening is a surface treatment process used to generate beneficial compressive residual stresses while being environmentally sustainable. Compressive residual stresses generated by the collapse of the ... -
Neuromechanics and Augmentation of Muscle-Tendon Actuators in Unsteady Cyclic Tasks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-23)Legged animals navigate complex environments with incredible stability, agility and economy despite having significant neuromechanical constraints like large delays and highly compliant actuators. They do so partly by ... -
Smart Sensing and Neural Network Based Reasoning for Optimal Fleet Route Planning With Fuel Economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)Nowadays, E-commerce is vastly popularized, and people can easily shop online from anywhere in the world. The progress of globalization also makes most commodities contain parts that are made from different places of the ... -
Force-Based Manipulation of a Suspended Payload via Feedback from an Instrumented Push-Pull Device
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)Lift assist devices such as overhead cranes are commonly employed in industrial settings to aid in moving large and/or heavy items. Current systems present challenges with regard to precise positioning due to the underactuated ... -
A Methodology to Compensate for Part Compliance During Robotic Machining
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)Machining thin-walled, compliant parts is a cost-efficient way to manufacture lightweight and structurally sound parts as used extensively in the aerospace industry. Such parts are difficult to machine using traditional ... -
Investigation of Inorganic Salt Hydrate Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage Integrated into Heat Pump Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-09)Thermal energy storage (TES) is a promising technology for the Energy Transition. Low grade heat is valuable for many everyday applications: indoor heating and cooling, hot water, refrigeration, etc. Heat pumps (HPs) move ... -
Acoustic Metamaterials for Enhanced Wave Control
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-13)Acoustic metamaterials have redefined the limits of acoustic wave control with composite structures that realize effective material properties that go beyond those of natural materials. These extraordinary material properties ... -
Development of a Preliminary Design and a One-Dimensional Model for a Direct Contact Heat Exchanger
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)A physics-based, one-dimensional model of a direct contact heat exchanger (DCHX) that is suited for use in a concentrated solar power (CSP) system that is based on a central receiver power tower (CRPT) particle heating ... -
Large Eddy Simulation of a Reacting Droplet-Laden Double Shear Layer Using Sparse-Lagrangian Multiple Mapping Conditioning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-06)Existing implementations of multiple mapping conditioning (MMC) for two-phase flows use filtered data from direct numerical simulation (DNS) as input, rather than using large eddy simulation (LES) techniques. A standalone ... -
Machine learning for point-to-point transmission loss estimates in ocean acoustic waveguides
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-01)Underwater acoustic system performance depends on several complex and dynamic environmental parameters, and simulating such performance is vital to the success of development and implementation of these systems. Because ... -
Application of reverse electrodialysis power for oxygen generation in undersea diving
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-02)Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a sustainable multi-membrane system that aims to convert salinity gradient energy into electrical energy. Redox mediators are typically used to convert ionic mixing into electricity at ... -
Expanding the Operating Envelopes of Advanced Reactors with Multi-Metallic Layered Composite Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11-09)Current nuclear fuel cladding and structural materials struggle to survive the combined effects of temperature, stresses, and corrosion found in advanced reactor cores, and the development of new materials is expensive and ... -
Survey of Machine Learning Methods for Reactor Burnup Prediction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-26)The development and spread of new nuclear technologies create a demand for new methods of safeguarding the fuel to prevent diversion for proliferation of nuclear weapons. One proposed method of controlled monitoring is the ... -
Thermally Aware Design Approaches for High Power Density Ultra-Wide Bandgap Power Electronics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-24)Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors like β-type gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) show promise for the development of next-generation high power density electronics devices such as RF and power electronics. The large bandgap ... -
Non-Intrusive Disaggregation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure Signals for Demand-Side Management
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-25)As intermittent renewable energy generation resources become more prevalent, innovative ways to manage the electric grid are sought. In the past, much of the grid balancing effort has been focused on the supply side or on ... -
Multimaterial 3D/4D Printing by Integrating Digital Light Processing and Direct Ink Writing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-22)Driven by the growing demand of applications in robotics, electronics, biomedical devices and wearable devices, multi-material 3D printing has now become a trend to offer solutions with a wide choice of materials with ... -
Sensing the Interactions of Ionizing Radiation in a Semiconductor Substrate using Carbon Nanotubes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The production and collection of charge carriers or photons in a bulk medium is the basis behind the detection of ionizing radiation. This core operating principle has imposed the requirements of acceptable detection ... -
Improving Intelligence of Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses to Enhance Mobility for Individuals with Limb Loss
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The field of wearable robotics is an emerging field that seeks to create smarter and intuitive devices that can assist users improve their overall quality of life. Specifically, individuals with lower limb amputation tend ...
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