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Proper function of traffic photometric devices such as traffic signal modules is crucial for safe operation in the traffic environment. The Traffic Engineering Research Lab (TERL) of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has a...
Buckypaper (BP) is a macroscopic aggregate of carbon nanotubes. More specifically, it is an easy-to-handle thin film formed from carbon nanotube networks. Buckypaper contains valuable high mechanical strength, electrical, and thermal...
Electrically conductive polymers (ECPs), offering capabilities such as electrostatic discharge protection and electromagnetic interference shielding, have been the subject of intensive research and development both in academia and...
This research presents a study on an innovative composite manufacturing process called Resin Infusion between Double Flexible Tooling (RIDFT). In this process, resin is infused between two flexible tools through fiber reinforcements in a...
Since the discovery of Carbon Nanotubes in 1991, nanotechnology has come to a new episode. One of the new applications of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is to develop high performance actuators. Nanotube actuation mechanism...
Buckypapers are thin films of nanostructured membranes made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are amazingly strong nanomaterials that measure 1/50, 000th the diameter of a human hair. Buckypapers have outstanding thermal, electrical and...
Nanomaterials have attracted a great deal of research efforts due to the potential unprecedented properties these materials may provide. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are of particular interest because of their exceptional mechanical, thermal...
Carbon nanotube thin film, or buckypaper, is one of the most revolutionary materials in the 21st century. Mechanical, electrical, and thermodynamic properties that can only be dreamed of in science fiction novels are now within reach in...
A practical method to utilize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in structural applications is to fabricate them into buckypapers (BPs), a thin film containing two-dimensional CNT networks, and combine them with a polymer matrix to make BP-polymer ...
Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes have undergone intensive research. The single-walled carbon nanotube, or SWNT, has a unique electronic structure. According to their chirality, they can be either metallic or semiconductors...
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in 1991 alongside their superior performance in mechanical and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes have been widely considered to be one of the most promising next generation materials. They...
Polymer composites are in a period of significant growth due to the increased use in the automobile, marine and aerospace application. Some of the advantages of using composites over other materials are weight savings, corrosion...
In general, a minimum aberration criterion is used to evaluate fractional factorial designs. This dissertation begins with a comprehensive review and comparison of minimum aberration criteria definitions regarding their applications, ...
To prepare dielectric materials for High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) cables, nanocomposites consisting of Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and Barium Titanate (BTA) nanoparticles have been manufactured and evaluated. The main objective...
Carbon nanotubes are theoretically one of the strongest and stiffest materials with a calculated tensile strength of ~200 giga Pascal and modulus of more than 1-4 tera Pascal for a single walled nanotube (SWNT). If the mechanical...
The objectives of this research are to develop lightweight high-performance nanotube composite actuators that can be operated in open air and to study their actuation mechanisms. We successfully demonstrated solid electrolyte-based...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have drawn interest for many applications since their discovery. While they provide exceptional mechanical, physical and chemical properties, several technical barriers must be overcome before these properties can...
Poisson count process are often used to model the number of occurrences over some interval unit. In an industrial quality control setting, these processes are often used to model the number of nonconformities per unit of product. Current...
General augmentation techniques such as foldover and semifold have been a common practice in industrial experimentation for many years. Even though these techniques are extremely effective in maintaining balance and orthogonality, they...
Most of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards applicable to school buses do not specifically cover the cutaway type of buses assembled on ladder-type chassis, for which a production process is split into two stages. In the first...
The current research studied the idea of introducing energy-absorbing polymers – specifically high-density viscoelastic polyurethanes – to reduce the blunt trauma from residual impact energy. This work investigated the material...
Many researchers proposed the use of carbon nanotubes as an advanced metal catalyst support for electrocatalysis applications. In this research, buckypaper (thin film of preformed nanotube network) electrodes with different weight ratios...
Supply chain optimization is a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and stores, so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities, to the right locations, and at...
The discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Iijima in 1991 has initiated a great deal of scientific research on exploring their unique properties and potential applications. One of the promising applications is integrating CNTs into...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) demonstrate extraordinary properties and show great promise in enhancing in-plane and out-of-plane properties of traditional polymer/fiber composites and enabling functionality. However, current manufacturing...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have excellent mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties making them outstanding reinforcements in polymer matrix composites. In this research, the effect of CNT-integration in polymer matrices (two-phase)...
This research focuses on the third-order response surface designs for global optimization and mapping of systems or processes. The current second-order response surface designs may not be accurate and efficient enough to describe the...
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