• Design of supply chain network to reduce impacts of damages during shipping 

  Abushaega, Mastoor M.; Daehy, Yahya H.; Alghamdi, Saleh Yahya; Krishnan, Krishna K.; Khamaj, Abdulrahman (Polska Akademia Nauk, 2021-06-01)

  Recently, the expand of industrial market has led to have long supply chain network. During the long shipment, the probability of having damaged products is likely to occur. The probability of having damaged products is ...

• Mechanical properties and failure mechanisms of refill friction stir spot welds 

  Lakshmi Balasubramaniam, Guruvignesh; Boldsaikhan, Enkhsaikhan; Joseph Rosario, Gratias Fernandez; Ravichandran, Saravana P.; Fukada, Shintaro; Fujimoto, Mitsuo; Kamimuki, Kenichi (MDPI, 2021-11-01)

  Refill friction stir spot welding (RFSSW) is an innovative solid-state welding technology for aluminum structures. The presented study aimed to evaluate the mechanical properties of refill spot welds and their failure ...

• Smart rebalancing for bike sharing systems using quantum approximate optimization algorithm 

  Harikrishnakumar, Ramkumar; Nannapaneni, Saideep (IEEE, 2021-10-25)

  Smart Mobility is the key component of Smart City initiative that are being explored throughout the world. The bike-sharing system (BSS) aims to provide an alternative mode of Smart Mobility transportation system, and it ...

• Alternate method for determining yield strength of polymer additive manufacturing 

  Park, Chul Y.; Rupel, Keith E.; Henry, Chelsey E.; Malik, Kevin F.; Ghose, Sayata; Palliyaguru, Upul R. (ASTM International, 2020-09-01)

  Additive manufacturing (AM) technology offers potential cost savings, production efficiencies, and unique design features that cannot be easily achieved through traditional manufacturing. However, it is known that the final ...

• Distributed network time synchronization: Social learning versus consensus 

  Hulede, Ian Ellis L; Kwon, Hyuck M. (IEEE, 2021-10-15)

  The objective of this paper is to investigate a social learning-based distributed network time synchronization (SLDNTS) and compare it to a classic approach: consensus-based distributed network time synchronization (CDNTS). ...

• Salt hydrates as phase change materials for photovoltaics thermal management 

  Choo, Yee M.; Wei, Wei (Wiley Open Access, 2021-11-10)

  Recently, phase change materials (PCMs) are acquiring much attention for the overall enhancement of photovoltaic (PV) systems' performance, because of their extraordinary property in temperature management. Many researchers ...

• Regional CubeSat constellation design to monitor hurricanes 

  Chadalavada, Pardhasai; Dutta, Atri (IEEE, 2021-11-13)

  State-of-the-art weather forecasting systems depend on a variety of data collected by airborne, orbiting, and ground sensors. Regional CubeSat constellations have the potential to improve hurricane forecasting by collecting ...

• Low-frequency noise control using layered granular aerogel and limp porous media 

  Xue, Yutong; Dasyam, Amrutha; Bolton, J. Stuart; Sharma, Bhisham N. (Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2021-08-01)

  The acoustic absorption of granular aerogel layers with a granule sizes in the range of 2 to 40 μm is dominated by narrow-banded, high absorption regions in the low-frequency range and by reduced absorption values at higher ...

• 3D printed multifunctional low-frequency sound absorbers 

  Johnston, William; Kankanamalage, Pulitha G.; Sharma, Bhisham N. (Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2021-08-01)

  Cellular porous materials are an attractive choice for lightweight structural design. However, though their open porous architecture is ideally suited for multifunctional applications, their use is typically limited by the ...

• Hybrid polymeric-metallic foams for bone tissue engineering scaffolds: Mechanical properties and biofunctionality evaluations 

  Mahapatro, Anil; Hlaing, Hay Mar; Malladi, Lipi; Keshavanarayana, Suresh R. (Taylor and Francis, 2021-10-21)

  Challenges exist in the applicability of thermoplastic foams as scaffolds for bone tissue engineering including mismatch of mechanical properties. Template assisted electrodeposition was carried out to fabricate hybrid ...

• Information-theoretic secret sharing from correlated Gaussian random variables and public communication 

  Rana, Vidhi; Chou, Rémi; Kwon, Hyuck M. (IEEE, 2021)

  Abstract—In this paper, we study an information-theoretic secret sharing problem, where a dealer distributes shares of a secret among a set of participants under the following constraints: (i) authorized sets of users ...

• Maximum torque per ampere and maximum power per ampere sliding mode control for interior permanent magnet synchronous motors 

  Alnami, Hashim; Pang, Chengzong; Papineni, Avinash; Wang, Xin (Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-14)

  This paper presents novel maximum torque per ampere (MTPA) and maximum power per ampere (MPPA) sliding mode control (SMC) approaches for interior permanent-magnet synchronous motors (IPMs). We first derive the first-order ...

• Monocular visual-inertial and robotic-arm calibration in a unifying framework 

  Zhang, Yinlong; Liang, Wei; Yuan, Mingze; He, Hongsheng; Tan, Jindong; Pang, Zhibo (IEEE, 2021-10-20)

  Reliable and accurate calibration for camera, inertial measurement unit (IMU) and robot is a critical prerequisite for visual-inertial based robot pose estimation and surrounding environment perception. However, traditional ...

• Multifunctional water treatment system for oil and gas-produced water 

  Ali, Sattar J.; Ijaola, Ahmed O.; Asmatulu, Eylem (Springer, 2021-10-12)

  At present, the produced water in the state of Kansas is mostly disposed in designated wells as defined by the state commission to reduce environmental issues and reduce groundwater contamination. However, disposal of ...

• Investigation of mechanical and microstructural properties of welded specimens of aa6061-t6 alloy with friction stir welding and parallel-friction stir welding methods 

  Ghiasvand, Amir; Yavari, Mohammad Mahdi; Tomków, Jacek; Grimaldo Guerrero, John William; Kheradmandan, Hasan; Dorofeev, Aleskei; Memon, Shabbir; Aghajani Derazkola, Hesamoddin (MDPI, 2021-10-12)

  The present study investigates the effect of two parameters of process type and tool offset on tensile, microhardness, and microstructure properties of AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy joints. Three methods of Friction Stir Welding ...

• Improvement of mechanical and wear behavior by the development of a new tool for the friction stir processing of Mg/B4C composite 

  Paidar, Moslem; Bokov, Dmitry O.; Mehrez, S.; Ojo, Olatunji O.; Ramalingam, Vaira Vignesh; Memon, Shabbir (Elsevier, 2021-11-25)

  Large and irregular particle sizes of B4C in the Mg matrix are performance-impeding challenges of the as-cast Mg-B4C composites. In an attempt to overcome this, the secondary solid-state friction stir processing of the ...

• Hand gesture-based artificial neural network trained hybrid human–machine interface system to navigate a powered wheelchair 

  Stroh, Ashley; Desai, Jaydip M. (Springer Nature, 2021-10-06)

  Individuals with cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy often lack fine motor control of their fingers which makes it difficult to control traditional powered wheelchairs using a joystick. Studies have shown the use of ...

• Wind power prediction in different months of the year using machine learning techniques 

  Pun, Kesh; Basnet, Saurav M.S.; Jewell, Ward T. (IEEE, 2021-04-19)

  Integration of wind power into the grid has been rapidly increasing at both the transmission as well as distribution levels. Wind power generation is variable, nonlinear, and intermittent in nature. The monthly average and ...

• Node voltage estimation of distribution system using artificial neural network considering weather data 

  Pun, Kesh B.; Basnet, Saurav Man Singh; Jewell, Ward T. (IEEE, 2021-04-19)

  Load flow analysis using traditional methods for power flow is becoming complex (reverse power flow and voltage volatility) due to the configuration complexity brought about by renewable energy resource (RER) integration. ...

• Blind detection design for AF two-way relaying over frequency selective channels 

  Ding, Yanwu; Li, Lun (Springer, 2021-09-18)

  This paper considers an amplify-and-forward two-way relay system with frequency selective fading channels. The knowledge of channel state information is assumed not available for all nodes. An efcient transmission and ...

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