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Hardware Design and Implementation of an Electromagnetic Levitation System in an Additive Manufacturing Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)Magnetic Levitation and Additive Manufacturing are two promising fields with ever growing interest in several industrial settings. There is, however, negligible overlap between the two fields. This research aims to combine ... -
A Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Platform for Planetary Rovers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test platform for planetary rovers was designed, fabricated and tested in the present work. The ability for planetary rover designers and mission planners to estimate the rover’s performance ... -
Heat Generation Measurements of Prismatic Lithium Ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are gaining momentum as a sustainable alternative to conventional combustion based transportation. The operating temperature of the vehicle will vary significantly over the vehicle ... -
Heat Release Rate in Ventilation-Limited Furniture Fires
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)There has always been motivation to investigate and understand fires with hopes of implementing useful changes to fire safety procedures, standards, codes, and education. Due to the unpredictability and destructive nature ... -
Heat Transfer Analysis of a Between-Panes Venetian Blind Using Effective Longwave Radiative Properties
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2004)Center-glass thermal analysis programs based on one-dimensional models have proved to be exceptionally useful. Recently efforts have been made to extend the analysis to include venetian blinds. It is convenient to model ... -
Heat Transfer Analysis Of Windows With Venetian Blinds: A Comparative Study
(2007-06)The potential to reduce building load and annual energy consumption is widely recognized in the use of shading devices to control solar gain. Consequently, the ability to include and model shading layers in complex glazing ... -
Heat Transfer Modeling of Roller Hearth and Muffle Furnace
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In hot forming die quenching, furnaces are used to austenitize ultra high strength steel blanks. In the case of coated steels, like Usibor® 1500 P, furnace heating also transforms a protective Al-Si layer into a permanent ... -
Hessian Estimation Based Adaptive and Cooperative Extremum Localization
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)The thesis is on Hessian estimation based adaptive and cooperative extremum localization via a single mobile sensory agent as well as a network of multiple such agents. First, we develop a continuous time adaptive extremum ... -
Heterogeneous Reactions of Micro and Nano Aluminum Particles with Various Oxidizers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Micro and nano aluminum (Al) particles have drawn much attention for properties as metal fuels in energetic materials. Aluminum is the preferred metal due to its thermodynamic stability after long term storage, abundance ... -
Hierarchical Adaptive Control of Modular and Reconfigurable Robot Manipulator Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)Within the rapidly growing interest in today's robotics industry, modular and reconfigurable robots (MRRs) are among the most auspicious systems to expand the adaptability of robotic applications. They are adaptable to ... -
High Productivity Milling of Calcium Polyphosphate
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)The main objective of this thesis is to further reduce the machining cycle time for producing Calcium Polyphosphate (CPP) implant constructs. To achieve this, the impregnation of the CPP lattice with various polymers is ... -
High Strain Rate Behaviour of Cervical Spine Segments in Flexion and Extension
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Cervical Spine injuries are a common occurrence during motor vehicle accidents, and they represent a significant economic cost to society. Numerical Finite Element (FE) models have been formulated to investigate the ... -
High Strain Rate Behaviour of Hot Formed Boron Steel with Tailored Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-21)In an automotive crash event, hot stamped, die quenched martensitic structural components have been shown to provide excellent intrusion resistance. These alloys exhibit only limited ductility, however, which may limit the ... -
High Strain Rate Characterization of Advanced High Strength Steels
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The current research has considered the characterization of the high strain rate constitutive response of three steels: a drawing quality steel (DDQ), a high strength low alloy steel (HSLA350), and a dual phase steel ... -
High Temperature DC SQUID Fabrication on Bicrystal YBCO Thin Films
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)After the discovery of high temperature superconductors, different types of Josephson junctions were investigated and thus a new path is created to obtain high temperature superconducting quantum interface devices(SQUID). ... -
High Temperature Deformation Behaviour of an Al-Mg-Si-Cu Alloy and Its Relation to the Microstructural Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-24)The microstructural evolution and mechanical properties at elevated temperatures of a recently fabricated fine-grained AA6xxx aluminium sheet were evaluated and compared to the commercially fabricated sheet of the same ... -
High Temperature Forging of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)Isothermal uniaxial compression tests were conducted on AZ31B magnesium alloy with the intention of applying the findings to an industrial forging operation. Given the poor workability of magnesium at low temperatures, ... -
High-Speed Probe Card Analysis Using Real-time Machine Vision and Image Restoration Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)There has been an increase in demand for the wafer-level test techniques that evaluates the functionality and performance of the wafer chips before packaging them, since the trend of integrated circuits are getting more ... -
High-Temperature Oxidation, Fluoride-Ion Cleaning, and Activated Diffusion Brazing of Nickel-Based Superalloy GTD111
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)The need for industrial gas turbines to operate at higher temperatures and/or speeds has resulted in the continual modification of nickel-based superalloys to provide better high-temperature strength and corrosion resistance ... -
Highly pressurized partially miscible liquid-liquid flow in a micro-T-junction. I. Experimental observations
(American Physical Society (APS), 2017-04-24)This is the first part of a two-part study on a partially miscible liquid-liquid flow (liquid carbon dioxide and deionized water) which is highly pressurized and confined in a microfluidic T-junction. Our main focuses are ...