A A S S M M E E D D I I S S T T R R I I C C T T F F E E C C T T C C P P R R O O C C E E E E D D I I N N G G S S Proceedings of the ASME District F Early Career Technical Conference School of Engineering University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA November 2-3, 2013 Volume 12
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Ramana Pidaparti, PhD Adeel Khalid, PhD Ram Peddada, DSc, MD William E. Long, Jr., PE
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Table of Contents
INSIDE COVER iii
EDITORIAL BOARD iv
FOREWORD v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi
SPONSORS vii SECTION 1 BIO-MEDICAL / BIOENGINEERING
1. NAMHEON LEE, MICHAEL D. TAYLOR, KAN N. HOR and RUPAK K. BANERJEE 3 Non-invasive Evaluation of Energy Loss in the Pulmonary Arteries using 4D Phase Contrast MRI Measurement
2. DANIEL K. OLENDER and YONG ZHU 7 Design and EEG-based Control of a Bio-inspired Ankle Foot Orthosis
3. YONG ZHU, ADETAYO FAMINU and LI LI 14 Design and Testing of a Center-of-pressure Oscillation Measurement Device for Assessment of Postural Control Recovery
4. MOHAMMED ALI and ESSAM A. IBRAHIM 20
Determination of Particle Aerodynamic Size Distribution and Viability of Aerosolized H1N1 Virus
5. XIUHUA SI and RACHEL GAIDE 27 Electrophoretic Focusing and Navigation for Intranasal Target Drug Delivery
6. DREW A. LATHAN and BETH A. TODD 34
Counter-Balancing Mechanism for Improving Independence when Using an Exoskeleton
SECTION 2
MATERIALS
7. CHINMAY SONAVANE, ASHWIN POLISHETTY and GUY LITTLEFAIR 41 Machinability and Phase Transformation Study of Nanobainite Steels
8. MONSUR ISLAM, RITWIK BANDYOPADHYAY, SWATI SHARMA and MARC J MADOU 46
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) - Carbon Intermediate Materials: Electrical and Chemical Properties
9. ASHWIN POLISHETTY, VIGNESH MANOHARAN, GUY LITTLEFAIR and CHINMAY SONAVANE 53 Machinability Assessment of Ti-6Al-4V for Aerospace Applications
10. XIBING GONG, BO CHENG, STEVEN PRICE and KEVIN CHOU 59 Powder-Bed Electron-Beam-Melting Additive Manufacturing: Powder Characterization, Process Simulation and Metrology
11. MATTHEW L. SCHULTE 67 Origin of Materials: Where Our Metals Come From and Why the Engineering World Cares
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12. SEAN P. KENNEDY and SAEED B. NIKU 73 Material Characterization of Nitinol Wires for the Design of Actuation Systems
13. MUJIBUR R KHAN, MAXWELL FRIEL and JABEOUS WEAVER 81
Thermoelectric and Mechanical Properties of SiC+SWCNTs+B4C Nanocomposites with Sol-gels Diffusion
SECTION 3
DYNAMIC SYSTEMS & CONTROL
14. RACHAEL McCARTY, M. HAROON SHEIK, KYLE HODGES, and NIMA MAHMOODI 89 Vibration of Atomic Force Microscopy Using Hamilton’s Principle
15. STEPHEN ARMAH and SUN YI 97 Robot Autonomous Navigation Control Algorithms for Various Types of Tasks Performed in the X-Y Plane
16. ALAN J. HAMLET and CARL D. CRANE 105 Robotic Behavior Prediction Using Hidden Markov Models
17. TOM TRASK, ARNOLD CASSELL, DANG HUYNH and DANIEL COX 112 Near Real-Time Teleoperation Control of the Stäubli TX40 Robot
18. JOSHUA N. WEAVER, DANIEL Z. FRANK, ERIC M. SCHWARTZ and A. ANTONIO ARROYO 119 UAV Performing Autonomous Landing on USV Utilizing the Robot Operating System
19. WILLIAM D. McGINNIS, DAVID G. BEALE and J-M WERSINGER 125 Simulation and Validation of a Low Power Regime Based Attitude Determination and Control System for Cubesats
SECTION 4 ENERGY
20. WILL K. HAYS and ROBERT J. PRINS 135 Energy Usage Modeling and Measurements for an Electric Motorcycle on a Cross Country Route
21. MOSTAFA RANJBAR and MILAD KERMANI 141 On Maximization of Noise Transmission Loss in Mufflers by Geometry Modification Concept
22. ERNANDES JOSE GONCALVES DO NASCIMENTO, OBIECHINA IRUKA ABAKPORO, ALEJANDRO RIVERA, and JUAN ORDONEZ 145 Cooling Channel Analysis to Enhance the Efficiency of Fuel Cells and Photovoltaic Panels
SECTION 5
NUMERICAL METHODS
23. MOSTAFA SALAMA and VLADIMIR V. VANTSEVICH 155 Stochastic Tire-Terrain Interaction for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Modeling
24. MAHDI JAMSHIDINIA, FANRONG KONG and RADOVAN KOVACEVIC 163
The Coupled CFD-FEM Model of Electron Beam Melting® (EBM)
25. PANKAJ RAJPUT, GIOVANNI DI ILIO and RONALD DIAZ 172 Spider Web Topology: Parameterization and Analysis
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26. LIN LI, QINGDE CHEN and CHI TAY TSAI 180 Numerical Characterization of a Passive Three Dimensional Triangular Micromixer Based on Chaotic Advection and Splitting-Recombination Mixing Mechanism
27. CHI ZHU, GUIBO LI and HAOXIANG LUO 186
Using Compact Finite-Difference Scheme Along With the Immersed-Boundary Method
SECTION 6 FLUIDS ENGINEERING
28. FANNY M. BESEM, JEFFREY P. THOMAS, STEPHEN T. CLARK, ROBERT E. KIELB, EARL H. DOWELL and KENNETH C. HALL 193 Aeroelastic Response of a Vortex-Induced Vibrating Cylinder Using a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Reduced Order Model
29. JIALEI SONG, HAOXIANG LUO and TYSON L. HEDRICK 201
Performance of a Hummingbird During Hovering Flight
30. SIYUAN CHANG, FANGBAO TIAN, HAOXIANG LUO, JAMES F. DOYLE, TSUYOSHI KOJIMA and BERNARD ROUSSEAU 207 CFD Modeling of the Vocal Fold Vibration for Evoked Rabbit Phonation
31. MATTHEW J. SANDLIN and SHELDON M. JETER 213 An experimental and Numerical Study of Granular Hopper Flows
SECTION 7
DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
32. JAMES WILLIAM BECKER 225 Investigation into the Benefits of Using ASME BPVC Section VIII Division 2 in Lieu of Division 1 for Pressure Vessel Design
33. EPHRAIM F. ZEGEYE, ALI KADKHODA GHAMSARI and EYASSU WOLDESENBET 231 Strain Sensing Property of Glass Microballoons/Cnf Nanocomposite Embedded in Syntactic Foam
34. SOPHORIA WESTMORELAND and LINDA SCHMIDT 236 Cognitive Evidense in Engineering Design Documentation
35. SHAOBIAO CAI and YONGLI ZHAO 243 The Modeling and Design of a Sustainable Pneumatic Energy Driving Automobile System
36. ADETAYO C. FAMINU and YONG ZHU 250 Design and Control of a Leg Press Training Machine for Whole Body Vibration
SECTION 8
HEAT TRANSFER
37. KENNEDY OSAIGHE AMEDU 259 Investigation Into the Thermal Homogeneity of Jet Impingement Heat Transfer in Concentric Tube Annulus
38. PIERO CABALLERO, SAM YANG, ALEJANDRO RIVERA and J. C. ORDONEZ 267 Finite Element Analysis of a High Performance Heat Sink with Complex Geometry in Power Electronic Building Blocks
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39. MUHAMMAD M. MAHMOOD, DRAKE VISCOME and SHELDON M. JETER 271 Gas Turbine Exhaust-Heat-Driven Cooling Cycle for Steam Condenser Cooling Air Application
40. MATTHEW GOLOB, DENNIS SADOWSKI and SHELDON M. JETER 278 Serpentine Particle-Flow Heat Exchanger with Working Fluid for Solar Thermal Power Generation
SECTION 9 MISCELLENEOUS
41. MAGDALENA KRSTANOSKI and KRISTINA JAKIMOVSKA 289 Experimental Study on Analyzing Human Factor in the Process of Planning of Vertical Transportation
42. MICHAEL D. WALKER and RAMANA M. PIDAPARTI 297 A Multiplication Toy for Children: The Color Cross Cube
43. HADI FEKRMANDI, JAVIER ROJAS, MICHAEL WOLFF, IBRAHIM NUR TANSEL, SERGIO GONZALEZ, and BALEMIR URAGUN 302 Monitoring the Health of a Beam Remotely by using Scanning Laser Vibrometer
44. WILLIAM CLINE, PRANITA SARASWATULA, KAMBUI JOHN, ADEEL KHALID and KAMRAN MOGHADDAM 307 Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority Pump Station Maintenance Optimization Plan
45. MAGDALENA KRSTANOSKI and YONG ZHU 315 Concept Review of the Parameters as Related to the Green Aspects of Elevators in Decision-Making Process
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