• Investigating compression strengths of 3D printed polymeric infill specimens of various geometries 

  Subeshan, Balakrishnan; Alonayni, Abdullah; Rahman, Muhammad M.; Asmatulu, Eylem (SPIE, 2018-03-23)

  Conventional manufacturing techniques include removing the excess materials to get the desired shapes; however, additive manufacturing include direct manufacturing of the objects using computer aided design model through ...

• Integrating Spirulina platensis cultivation and aerobic composting exhaust for carbon mitigation and biomass production 

  Lu, Weidong; Alam, Md Asraful; Luo, Wenshi; Asmatulu, Eylem (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Aerobic composting is an effective way to dispose of organic waste. However, considerable carbon is converted into CO2 and emitted into the atmosphere, which is a waste of the carbon resource and has the potential for the ...

• Power generation via small length scale thermo-mechanical Systems: current status and challenges, a review 

  Burugupally, Sindhu Preetham; Weiss, Leland (MDPI, 2018-09)

  There has been significant interest and work toward the development of small length scale (micrometer to centimeter) energy conversion systems-heat engines and thermal energy harvesters-that operate on different thermal ...

• Strength and failure analysis of composite-to-composite adhesive bonds with different surface treatments 

  Paranjpe, Nikhil; Alamir, Mohammed Abdullah; Alonayni, Abdullah; Asmatulu, Eylem; Rahman, Muhammad M.; Asmatulu, Ramazan (SPIE, 2018-03-22)

  Adhesives are widely utilized materials in aviation, automotive, energy, defense, and marine industries. Adhesive joints are gradually supplanting mechanical fasteners because they are lightweight structures, thus making ...

• Safety concerns in composite manufacturing and machining 

  Asmatulu, Eylem; Alonayni, Abdullah; Alamir, Mohammed Abdullah (SPIE, 2018-03-22)

  Because of the superior properties, composites have been used in many industrial applications, including aerospace, wind turbines, ships, cars, fishing rods, storage tanks, swimming pool panels, and baseball bats. Each ...

• Sustainability of fiber reinforced laminate and honeycomb composites in manufacturing industries 

  Asmatulu, Eylem; Alonayni, Abdullah; Alamir, Mohammed Abdullah; Rahman, Muhammad M. (SPIE, 2018-03-22)

  Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites provide a lot of benefits, including strength-to-weight ratio / light weight, superior mechanical properties, low maintenance, prolonged service life, as well as corrosion, fatigue ...

• Relating alkaline stability to the structure of quaternary phosphonium cations 

  Zhang, Bingzi; Long, Hai; Kaspar, Robert B.; Wang, Junhua; Gu, Shuang; Zhuang, Zhongbin; Pivovar, Bryan; Yan, Yushan (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-07-25)

  Alkali-stable quaternary phosphonium (QP) is a type of cationic group for hydroxide exchange membranes (HEMs). To elucidate the relationship between structure and alkaline stability, we investigated the kinetics and ...

• Effective structure regulation of poly(vinylidene fluoride) via soy protein isolate: A morphological study 

  Zheng, Zhuoyuan; Cox, McCord; Li, Bin (Wiley, 2018-10-10)

  The microstructures of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/soy protein isolate (SPI) films were successfully modulated via denatured SPIs. While vegetable proteins have been extensively researched as functional biomaterials ...

• A critical review on design aspects and developmental status of metal hydride based thermal machines 

  Muthukumar, P.; Kumar, Alok; Raju, Nithin N.; Malleswararao, K.; Rahman, Muhammad M. (Elsevier, 2018-09-13)

  Over two decades, research in the field of metal hydride based thermal machines has gained immense attention by the researchers of different fields. Because of its capability to store large volume of hydrogen per unit mass ...

• Pre-Preg Carbon Fiber Composites! Outdated pre-preg carbon fiber composites for low cost soccer shin guard manufacturing 

  Bathula, Y. R.; Alamir, Mohammed Abdullah; Patlolla, Vamsidhar Reddy; Asmatulu, Ramazan (SAMPE, 2018-09)

  Carbon fiber composites are extensively used in manufacturing of shin guards and other sportive goods. The purpose of this research was to improve the impact resistance of soccer shin guards which were made of outdated ...

• Experimental investigation of curved electrode actuator dynamics in viscous dielectric media 

  Burugupally, Sindhu Preetham; Hoelzle, David (AIP Publishing, 2018-08-13)

  Micromanipulation of biological cells inside a liquid environment requires an actuator that has a small footprint to reduce viscous drag and low actuation voltage to prevent electrolysis and Joule heating. Curved electrode ...

• Synthesis of electrospun polyacrylonitrile-derived carbon fibers and comparison of properties with bulk form 

  Alarifi, Ibrahim M.; Khan, Waseem Sabir; Asmatulu, Ramazan (PLOS, 2018-08-09)

  This study deals with the fabrication of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers via an electrospinning process followed by stabilizing and carbonization in order to remove all non-carboneous matter and ensure a pure carboneous ...

• Performance evaluation of a curved electrode actuator fabricated without gold/chromium conductive layers 

  Burugupally, Sindhu Preetham; Mangels, Jordan A. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-08)

  Curved electrode actuators displace on the order of a biological cell diameter at low actuation voltages, making them a potential candidate for probing and micromanipulation of cells in an underwater, closed microenvironment. ...

• Superhydrophobic PAN nanofibers for gas diffusion layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells for cathodic water management 

  Salahuddin, Mohammad; Uddin, M. Nazim; Hwang, Gisuk; Asmatulu, Ramazan (Elsevier, 2018-06-21)

  Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are considered to be promising alternatives to natural resources for generating electricity and various other powers. Optimal water management in the gas diffusion layer (GDL) is ...

• Thermal diode using controlled capillary in heterogeneous nanopores 

  Avanessian, Tadeh; Hwang, Gisuk (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  The development of a compact, efficient, reliable thermal diode is crucial to improve advanced thermal management efficiency and controllability, and to enable brand new applications such as thermal logic gates and computers. ...

• A comparative study on the effect of welding parameters of austenitic stainless steels using artificial neural network and Taguchi approaches with ANOVA analysis 

  Kurt, Halil Ibrahim; Oduncuoglu, Murat; Yilmaz, Necip Fazil; Ergul, Engin; Asmatulu, Ramazan (MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland, 2018-05-08)

  In order to investigate the structure of welds, austenitic stainless steel ( SS) studs with a diameter of 6 mm were welded to austenitic SS plates with a thickness of 5 mm using an arc stud welding (ASW) method. The effects ...

• Modeling of friction-stir butt-welds and its application in automotive bumper impact performance Part 1. Thermo-mechanical weld process modeling 

  Patil, Sachin; Tay, Yi Yang; Baratzadeh, Farzad; Lankarani, Hamid M. (Springer Nature, 2018-06)

  The demand for better structural performance in joining of components for road vehicles prompts the implementation of aluminum alloy friction stir welding technology in the automotive industry. The aim of current study is ...

• Pool-boiling enhancement using multilevel modulated wick 

  Nasersharifi, Yahya; Kaviany, Massoud; Hwang, Gisuk (Elsevier, 2018-06-05)

  Main challenges in saturated pool-boiling heat transfer are limited Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC), caused by the counterflow of liquid and vapor over the heated surface. Using multilevel ...

• Adsorption and capillary transition in heterogeneous nanostructures using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation 

  Avanessian, Tadeh; Hwang, Gisuk (Elsevier, 2018-08)

  Recent emerging nanotechnologies allow for demonstrating heterogeneous nanoporous structures. However, studies on the roles of heterogeneous nanostructures on adsorption and capillary transition are rare. Here, we examine ...

• Study of denaturation and composition-dependent poly(ethylene oxide)-soy protein interactions: Structures and dielectric polarization 

  Zheng, Zhuoyuan; Ma, Daowei; Rashidi, Soheil; Li, Bin (Wiley, 2018-08-15)

  The significance of aggregated protein structures in tuning structures and dielectric polarization of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/soy protein isolate (SPI) films was studied. The aggregated protein structures, subjected to ...

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