Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research
Submissions from 2010
Computational Analysis to Assess the Influence of Specimen Geometry on Cleavage Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials, Sunil Prakash, Xiaosheng Gao, and T. S. Srivatsan
Comparing Linear and Essentially Nonlinear Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting, D, Dane Quinn; Angela L. Triplett; Lawrence A. Bergman; and Alexander F. Vakakis
Effects of Build Orientation on Tensile Strength for Stereolithography-Manufactured ASTM D-638 Type I Specimens, Rolando Quintana, Jae-Won Choi, Karina Puebla, and Ryan Wicker
Reengineering the Cardiac Catheterization Lab Processes: A Lean Approach, Venkatesh A. Raghavan, Vikram Venkatadri, Varum Kesavakumaran, Shengyong Wang, Mohammad Khasawneh, and Krisnaswami Srihari
Do Electrospun Polymer Fibers Stick?, Qiang Shi, Kai-Tak Wan, Shing Chung Josh Wong, Pei Chen, and Todd Blackledge
Dry Adhesion Based on Electrospun Polymer Fibers, Qiang Shi, Shing Chung Josh Wong, Todd Blackledge, Johnny F. Najem, and Kai-Tak Wan
Influence of SLC22A1 (hOCT1) Polymorphisms on Imatinib Mesylate Pharmacokinetics in Asian Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Onkar Singh, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, R. D. Ramasamy, C. Chuah, and B. Chowbay
Postsynthetic Surface Functionalization, Postsynthetic Surface Functionalization, Encapsulation, and Releasing Studies of a Novel Polymer Nanocapsule, Duangruthal Sridaeng, Jacob J. Weingart, Nuanphun Chantarasiri, Jiang Zhe, and J. Jack Hu
A review of “Bulk Nanostructured Materials, Michael J. Zehetbauer and Yuntian Theodore Zhu, Editors”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A review of “Contact Angle, Wettability, and Adhesion: Volume 5, K.L. Mittal (editor)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A review of “Multiscale Kinetic Modelling of Materials, R. Kozubski, G. E. Murch, P. Zieba (Eds.)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “ What is What in the Nanoworld , V.E. Borisenko, S. Ossicini (editor)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Study of Cyclic Fatigue, Damage Initiation, Damage Propagation, and Fracture of Welded Titanium Alloy Plate, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan, Udaykar Bathini, Anil Patnaik, and T. Quick
A Study at Understanding the Mechanisms Governing the High Cycle Fatigue and Final Fracture Behavior of the Titanium Alloy: Ti–4Al–2.5V, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan, Mithun Kuruvilla, and Lisa Park
The Cyclic Fatigue, Damage Initiation, Propagation and Fracture Behavior of Cryomilled Aluminum Alloy 5083: Influence of Secondary Processing, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan, Enrique J. Lavernia, Mithun Kuruvilla, and T. S. Srivatsan
The Mechanical Response of a Rotating Wheel: Influence of Inflation Pressure and Radial Loads, J. Stearns, Xiaosheng Gao, T. S. Srivatsan, and Paul C. Lam
Impact-Induced Delamination Suppression in Laminated Composites using Through-Thickness Stitching, Kwek Tze Tan, N. Watanabe, H. Hoshi, and Y. Iwahori
Effect of Stitch Density and Stitch Thread Thickness on Low-Velocity Impact Damage of Stitched Composites, Kwek Tze Tan, N. Watanabe, and Y. Iwahori
Experimental Investigation of Bridging Law for Single Stitch Fibre Using Interlaminar Tension Test, Kwek Tze Tan, N. Watanabe, and Y. Iwahori
Interlaminar Fracture Toughness of Vectran-stitched Composites - Experimental and Computational Analysis, Kwek Tze Tan, N. Watanabe, M. Sano, and Y. Iwahori
Investigating Influence of Hybrid (Yttria + Copper) Nanoparticulate Reinforcements on Microstructural Development and Tensile Response of Magnesium, K. S. Tun, M. Gupta, and T. S. Srivatsan
Input Design for Systems Under Identification as Applied to Ultrasonic Transducers, Nishant Unnikrishnan, Yicheng Peter Pan, Marco P. Schoen, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, Jarlen Don, and Tsuchin Philip Chu
Damping and Added Mass Coefficients for a Squeeze Film Damper Using the Full 3-D Navier–Stokes Equation, Changhu Xing, Minel J. Braun, and Hongmin Li
Effects of Temperature on Laser Shock Induced Plastic Deformation: The Case of Copper, Chang Ye and Gary J. Cheng
Fatigue Performance Improvement by Dynamic Strain Aging and Dynamic Precipitation in Warm Laser Shock Peening of AISI 4140 Steel, Chang Ye and Gary J. Cheng
Laser Shock Peening of Nanoparticles Integrated Alloys: Numerical Simulation and Experiments, Chang Ye and Gary J. Cheng
Warm Laser Shock Peening Driven Nanostructures and Their Effects on Fatigue Performance in Aluminum Alloy 6160, Chang Ye, Yiliang Liao, and Gary J. Cheng
Warm Laser Shock Peening Driven Nanostructures and Their Effects on Fatigue Performance in Aluminum Alloy 6160†, Chang Ye, Yiliang Liao, and Gary J. Cheng
High School Bridge Program: A Multidisciplinary STEM Research Program, Jiang Zhe, Dennis Doverspike, Julie Zhao, Paul C. Lam, and Craig C. Menzemer
Submissions from 2009
High-Accuracy Large-Step Explicit Runge–Kutta (HALE-RK) Schemes for Computational Aeroacoustics, Vasanth Allampalli, Ray Hixon, Raj Nallasamy, and Scott Sawyer
How Super Is Supercontraction? Persistent versus Cyclic Responses to Humidity in Spider Dragline Silk, Todd A. Blackledge, Cecilia Boutry, Shing Chung Josh Wong, Avinash Baji, Ali Dhinojwala, Vasav Sahni, and Ingi Agnarsson
Cure Depth Control for Complex 3D Microstructure Fabrication in Dynamic Mask Projection Microstereolithography, Jae-Won Choi, Ryan B. Wicker, Seok-Hyun Cho, Chang-Sik Ha, and Seok-Hee Lee
Fabrication of 3D Biocompatible/Biodegradable Micro-Scaffolds Using Dynamic Mask Projection Microstereolithography, Jae-Won Choi, Ryan Wicker, Seok-Hee Lee, Kyung-Hyun Choi, Chang-Sik Ha, and Ildoo Chung
A Magnetic Coulter Counting Device for Wear Debris Detection in Lubrication, Li Du, Joan Carletta, Robert Veillette, and Jiang Zhe
Developing Fuel Map to Predict the Effect of Fuel Composition on the Maximum Efficiency of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Siamak Farhad and Feridun Hamdullahpur
Novel Sensor for Measuring Sodium Concentration for Dialysis Applications, L. Furby, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, Jarlen Don, and Bradley F. Schwartz
Deformation Behaviors and Critical Parameters in Microscale Laser Dynamic Forming, Huang Gao, Chang Ye, and Gary J. Cheng
Probabilistic Modeling of Cleavage Fracture in the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Region, Xiaosheng Gao
Effects of the Stress State on Plasticity and Ductile Failure of an Aluminum 5083 Alloy, Xiaosheng Gao, Tingting Zhang, and Matthew Hayden
Four-Point Fatigue Testing of Pressurized Composite Pipe, D. P. Gerrard, R. J. Scavuzzo, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan, T. S. Miner, and Olagoke Olabisi
Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Maximizing the Yield of a Coal Preparation Plant, Vishal Gupta, Hussain Unjawala, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, and Manoj Mohanty
Analytical Modeling of Composite Sandwich Panels under Blast Loads, Michelle S. Hoo Fatt and Leelaprasad Palla
Impact Perforation of Sandwich Panels with Coremat®, Michelle S. Hoo Fatt and Dushyanth Sirivolu
Predicting the Influence of Overload and Loading Mode on Fatigue Crack Growth: A Numerical Approach Using Irreversible Cohesive Elements, Haodan Jian, Xiaosheng Gao, and Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Parametric Analysis of a Reservoir-Extended Porous Slider Bearing with Self-Circulation and Cavitation Effects, Joshus D. Johnson, Minel J. Braun, Kevin Kreider, and Gerald W. Young
MR Measurement of Cerebrospinal Fluid Velocity Wave Speed in the Spinal Canal, Wojciech Kalata, Bryn A. Martin, John N. Oshinski, and Michael Jerosch Jerosch-Herold
Free Vibrations of Elastically Connected Stretched Beams, S. Graham Kelly and Shirish Srinivas
Autoignition of N-Decane under Elevated Pressure and Low-To-Intermediate Temperature Conditions, Kamal Kumar, Gaurav Mittal, and Chih-Jen Sung
An Investigation of Friction During Friction Stir Welding of Metallic Materials, K. Kumar, C. Kalyan, Satish V. Kailas, and Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Effect of Aircraft Datablock Complexity and Exposure Time on Performance of Change Detection Task, Chen Ling and Lesheng Hua
Effect of Evaluators' Cognitive Style on Heuristic Evaluation: Field Dependent and Field Independent Evaluators, Chen Ling Dr. and Gavriel Salvendy
A Three-Dimensional Constitutive Model for the Dynamic Response of Rubber3, M. Liu and Michelle S. Hoo Fatt
Pathological Biomechanics of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure in Syringomyelia: Fluid Structure Interaction of an In Vitro Coaxial Elastic Tube System, Bryn A. Martin, Richard Labuda, Thomas J. Royston, John N. Oshinski, Bermans Iskandar, and Francis Loth
The Influence of Coughing on Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure in an in Vitro Syringomyelia Model with Spinal Canal Stenosis, Bryn A. Martin and Francis Loth
Towards Non-Invasive Assessment of the Elastic Properties of the Spinal Aqueduct, Bryn A. Martin, Thomas J. Royston, John N. Oshinski, and Francis Loth
Low-Speed Atomistic Simulation of Stick–Slip Friction using Parallel Replica Dynamics, Ashlie Martini, Yalin Dong, Danny Perez, and Arthur F. Voter
Low-Speed Atomistic Simulation of Stick–Slip Friction using Parallel Replica Dynamics, Ashlie Martini, Yalin Dong, Danny Perez, and Arthur F. Voter
Autoignition of Methylcyclohexane at Elevated Pressures, Gaurav Mittal and Chih-Jen Sung
Capacitive Coulter Counting: Detection of Metal Wear Particles in Lubricant Using a Microfluidic Device, Srinidhi Murali, Xingao Xia, Ashish V. Jagtiani, Joan Carletta, and Jiang Zhe
Study of Take-Up Velocity in Enhancing Tensile Properties of Aligned Electrospun Nylon 6 Fibers, Johnny F. Najem
On the Role of Nano-Alumina Particulate Reinforcements in Enhancing the Oxidation Resistance of Magnesium Alloy AZ31B, Q. B. Nguyen, M. Gupta, and Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Static and Dynamic Responsive Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Brushes under External Electrical Field, Hui Ouyang, Zhenhai Xia, and Jiang Zhe
Multiple Fabrications of Sacrificial Layers to Enhance the Dimensional Accuracy of Microstructures in Maskless Projection Microstereolithography, In-Baek Park, Jae-Won Choi, Young-Myoung Ha, and Seok-Hee Lee
A Study of the Microstructure and Hardness of Two Titanium Alloys: Commercially Pure and Ti–6Al–4V, Narendra Poondla, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan, Anil Patnaik, and M. Petraroli
Numerical Modeling of the Constraint Effects on Cleavage Fracture Toughness, Sunil Prakash, Xiaosheng Gao, and T. S. Srivatsan
A Novel Fiber Optics Based Method to Measure Very Low Strains in Large Scale Infrastructures, Bradley Regez, Mohammad Sayeh, Ajay Mahajan, and Fernando Figueroa
A Novel Stone Retrieval Basket for More Efficient Lithotripsy Procedures, N. Salimi, Ajay Mahajan, J. Don, and Bradley Schwartz
Techniques to Measure Adhesive Forces Between Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers, Qiang Shi, Kai-Tak Wan, Shing Chung Josh Wong, Pei Chen, and Todd A. Blackledge
High-speed String Matching for Network Intrusion Detection, Benfano Soewito, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, Ning Weng, and Haibo Wang
The Roles of Profession and Gender in Some PIM Tasks, Guangfeng Song and Chen Ling
A Review of: “Failure Analysis Case Studies, D. R. H. Jones (Ed.)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “Fractography: Observing, Measuring, and Interpreting Fracture Surface Topography, D. Hull”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application, G. Kickelbick (Ed.)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “Materials Processing and Texture, A. D. Rollett, (editor)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “Nanosystem Characterization Tools in the Life Sciences, Challa S. S. R. Kumar (Ed.)”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
A Review of: “Unconventional Nanopatterning Techniques and Applications, John A. Rogers and Hong H. Lee”, Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Material Selection of Z-fibre in Stitched Composites - Experimental and Analytical Comparison Approach, Kwek Tze Tan, N. Watanabe, M. Sano, M. Takase, Y. Iwahori, and H. Hoshi
Electrowetting of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs) for Capillary Force Manipulation, Abhay Vasudev, Ashish V. Jagtiani, Li Du, Jun Hu, Yanan Gao, and Jiang Zhe
A Low-voltage Droplet Microgripper for Micro-object Manipulation, Abhay Vasudev, Ashish V. Jagtiani, Li Du, and Jiang Zhe
Prediction of Evaporation Heat Transfer Coefficient Based on Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Annular Flow Regime in Horizontal Microfin Tubes,, Yueshe Wang, Yanling Wang, Guo-Xiang Wang, and Hiroshi Honda
A Semi-Empirical Unified Model of Strain Fatigue Life for Insulation Plastics, Xiaofan Wei, Shing Chung Josh Wong, and Sunil Bandaru
Modeling of Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Nanofiber Network, Xiaofan Wei, Zhenhai Xia, Shing Chung Josh Wong, and Avinash Baji
A Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes–Based Numerical Model for Squeeze-Film Dampers. Part 1—Effects of Gaseous Cavitation on Pressure Distribution and Damping Coefficients without Consideration of Inertia, Changhu Xing, Minel J. Braun, and Hongmin Li
A Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes-Based Numerical Model for Squeeze Film Dampers. Part 2—Effects of Gaseous Cavitation on the Behavior of the Squeeze Film Damper, Changhu Xing, Minel J. Braun, and Hongmin Li
Numerical Simulation on Nanoparticles Integrated Laser Shock Peening of Aluminum Alloy, Chang Ye and Gary J. Cheng
A Study of Life Prediction Differences for a Nickel-Base Alloy 690 Using a Threshold and a Non-Threshold Model, B. A. Young, Xiaosheng Gao, and Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Submissions from 2008
SIU-Sim: A Novel Coal Preparation Plant Simulator, Barbara Arnold, Manoj Mohanty, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, Hasan Sevim, and Zhanyou Huang
A Fokker-Planck Code for Laser-Produced Plasmas, Zhao Bin, Yalin Dong, and Zheng Jian
Robust Supervisory Control for Product Routings With Multiple Unreliable Resources, Song Foh Chew, Shengyong Wang, and M. A. Lawley
Fabrication of Complex 3D Micro-Scale Scaffolds and Drug Delivery Devices using Dynamic Mask Projection Microstereolithography, Jae-Won Choi, In-Baek Park, Ryan B. Wicker, Seok-Hee Lee, and Ho-Chan Kim
Fabrication of Embedded Horizontal Micro-channels Using Linescan Stereolithography, Jae-Won Choi, Rolando Quintana, and Ryan B. Wicker
Efficient Design of Feedwater Heaters Network in Steam Power Plants Using Pinch Technology and Exergy Analysis, Siamak Farhad, Majid Saffar-Awal, and Maryam Younessi-Sinaki
Exergy Analysis and Performance Evaluation of CNG to LNG Converting Process, Siamak Farhad, M. Younessi-Sinaki, M. R. Golriz, and F. Hamdullahpur
Review of Seal Designs on the Apollo Spacecraft, Joshua R. Finkbeiner, Patrick H. Dunlap Jr., Bruce M. Steinetz, and Christopher C. Daniels
The Weibull Stress Model for Predicting Cleavage Fracture in the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Region, Xiaosheng Gao
An Investigation of the Loading Rate Dependence of the Weibull Stress Parameters, Xiaosheng Gao, James A. Joyce, and Charles Roe
A SImulation-Based Approach for Dock Allocation in a Food Distribution Center, Balagopal Gopakumar, Suvarna Sundaram, and Shengyong Wang
Mass Production of 3-D Microstructures Using Projection Microstereolithography, Young Myoung Ha, Jae Won Choi, and Seok Hee Lee
Microscopic Explosive Boiling Induced by a Pulsed-Laser Irradiation, Xiulan Huai, Guo-Xiang Wang, Renxi Jin, Tienan Yin, and Yu Zou
Techno-Economic Analysis of Coal Preparation Plant Design Using Siu-Sim Simulator Techno-Economic Analysis of Coal Preparation Plant Design Using Siu-Sim Simulator, Zhanyou Huang, Manoj Mohanty, Hasan Sevim, Ajay Mohan Mahajan, and Barbara Arnold