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Dynamic and Quasi-Static Response of Warm and Hot Formed Aluminum Beams Under Three-Point Bending
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)This thesis investigates the effect of elevated temperature forming on the impact resistance of three aluminum alloys, AA6013-T6, AA7075-T6, and a developmental 7000-series alloy (designated AA7xxx-T76). Both die quenching ... -
Dynamic Balance and Gait Metrics for Robotic Bipeds
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-19)For legged robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to balance and walk reliably. Both of these abilities improve when a system is more effective at moving itself around relative to its contacts (i.e., ... -
Dynamic Behaviour of Coke Drums PSVs During Blocked Outlet Condition
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-01)The maximum yield taken in an oil refinery can not exceed 70% without including Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) as part of unit operations in the refinery. This implies naturally a big attraction on investing of such a unit for ... -
A Dynamic Control Approach to Modeling and Analysing the Effects of Rewards on Behaviour and Attitude Change
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Motivated by the dynamic feedback nature of human attitudes and behaviours, this work adopts a control systems engineering approach to studying a psychological system. In particular, two discrete-time nonlinear attitude-behaviour ... -
Dynamic Control Strategies Used by ACL-Deficient Copers and Non-Copers during Stair Climbing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-23)Background: Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, is a disorder that affects bi-articular synovial joints and is characterized as the focal loss of articular cartilage with changes to the subchondral and ... -
Dynamic Crowdsourcing Consensus Tasks with Workers That Can Learn
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Crowdsourcing has become one of the most popular topics in both academia and industry in the past few years. By hiring workers online, task assigners can take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd and solve problems that ... -
Dynamic effects of harnessing cables on distributed parameter systems for space applications: Analytical modeling and experimental validation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-02)Power and data signal cables constitute a major component of lightweight spacecraft and satellite structures. These cables can account for up to as high as 30% of the structural mass and hence significantly impact the ... -
Dynamic Factored Particle Filtering for Context-Specific Correlations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)In order to control any system one needs to know the system's current state. In many real-world scenarios the state of the system cannot be determined with certainty due to the sensors being noisy or simply missing. In ... -
Dynamic HW/SW Partitioning: Configuration Scheduling and Design Space Exploration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)Hardware/software partitioning is a process that occurs frequently in embedded system design. It is the procedure of determining whether a part of a system should be implemented in software or hardware. This dissertation ... -
Dynamic Judgments of Spatial Extent: Behavioural, Neural, and Computational Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)Judgments of spatial relationships are often made when the object or observer are moving. Behaviourally, there is evidence that these ‘dynamic’ judgments of spatial extent differ from static judgments. Here I used three ... -
Dynamic Laser Fault Injection Aided by Quiescent Photon Emissions in Embedded Microcontrollers: Apparatus, Methodology and Attacks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-27)Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more integrated in our daily life with the increasing number of embedded electronic devices interacting together. These electronic devices are often controlled by a Micro-Controller ... -
Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Elastography
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is a medical imaging technique used to generate a map of tissue elasticity. The resulting image is known as an elastogram, and gives a quantitative measure of stiffness in the examined ... -
Dynamic Memory Bandwidth Allocation for Real-Time GPU-Based SoC Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)Heterogeneous SoC platforms, comprising both general purpose CPUs and accelerators such as a GPU, are becoming increasingly attractive for real-time and mixed-criticality systems to cope with the computational demand of ... -
Dynamic Model Identification and Trajectory Correction for Virtual Process Planning in Multi-Axis Machine Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-24)In today’s industry, the capability to effectively reduce production time and cost gives a manufacturer a vital advantage against its competitors. Specifically, in the machining industry, the ability to simulate the dynamic ... -
Dynamic Model of a Piano Action Mechanism
(University of Waterloo, 2004)While some attempts have been made to model the behaviour of the grand piano action (the mechanism that translates a key press into a hammer striking a string), most researchers have reduced the system to a simple model ... -
Dynamic Modeling and Parameter Identification of a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-19)In recent times, mechanical systems in an automobile are largely controlled by embedded systems, called micro-controllers. These automobiles, installed with micro-controllers, run complex embedded code to improve the ... -
Dynamic Modeling of Apoptosis and its Interaction with Cell Growth in Mammalian Cell Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)In order to optimize productivity of a cell culture it is necessary to understand growth and productivity and couple these features of the culture to extracellular nutrients whose profiles can be manipulated. Also, since ... -
Dynamic Modeling of Drug Transport in Solid Tumors and Optimal Chemotherapy Regimen
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)One of the most common therapies for treatment of cancer patients is chemotherapy. Therapeutic agents (drugs) can kill cancer cells by damaging their DNA and interrupting their extensive proliferation. Successful chemotherapy ... -
Dynamic modeling of recirculating aquaculture systems with an integrated application of nonlinear model predictive control and moving horizon estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)Growing concerns regarding the sustainability of the aquaculture industry has led to the development of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) where the addition of wastewater treatment units is accompanied by a reduction ... -
Dynamic Modelling and Control of MEA
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-08)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission control has been extensively studied over the past decade. One GHG mitigation alternative is post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture using chemical absorption, which is a promising ...