The work in this study involves a conceptual design of a disc brake system. Disc brakes offer higher performance braking, simpler design, lighter weight, and better resistance to water interference than drum brakes. The ...

Large composite structures have been increasingly used in the aviation industry. In order to achieve higher fuel efficiency, the use of light-weight, high-strength composite materials, such as carbon/epoxy, needs to be ...

For an efficient damper design, a design engineer always faces the challenge of providing the largest forces in the most compact and efficient envelope. It is important to identify the nature of the force required at the ...

Cold ring rolling is a complex metal forming process and generally not well understood. In many instances, considerable experience and experimentation is required to develop the process. During the process, plastic deformation ...

The study of axial crush behavior of metal and composite tube has become a basis for the design of crashworthy structure in automotive and aircraft applications. Unlike metals, polymer composite material displays little ...

A three dimensional solid finite element model was assembled to investigate the influence of parameters such as friction coefficient, fastener preload and material plasticity on the structural response of Hi-Lok bolted ...

Drilling is probably the most important conventional mechanical process and it is the most widely used machining operations. Prediction of cutting forces for any set of cutting parameters is essential in optimal design and ...

This work is focused on the finite element study of the energy absorbing behavior of aluminum (corrugated webs). The aim is to study the mechanism of energy absorption in specific metallic structures by understanding these ...

This paper formulates the problem encountered in the first stage of two-stage, binary template matching as a set of hypotheses to be tested, including a hypothesis of "no object." Two new statistics R and G are proposed, ...

This research presents two methods for a group of Garcia robots to collaboratively decide which task to attend to, and to move to their respective locations. One method allows for a needed flexibility and dynamic analysis ...