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The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering curriculum provides a solid foundation in the basic engineering sciences of solid mechanics and dynamics, materials engineering, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. Building on this foundation are courses key to the discipline of mechanical engineering including machine design, manufacturing methods, and instrumentation and control.
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Layered Fiber Orientation Optimization for Long Fiber Reinforced Polymer Additive Manufacturing using Multi-Material Topology Optimization
To iteratively produce lighter weight components, the use of topology optimization (TO) is instrumental in the design process. TO is used to determine the optimal placement of material within a design space and identify ... -
Digital Replication of Product Flow in a Serial Production Line
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, North American Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) providers hope to “re-shore” potential business from companies currently reliant on offshore manufacturing. To capitalize on this ... -
Laminar-Turbulent Transition Over a Flat Plate With Surface Imperfections
The present work attempted to explore the fundamental instability mechanisms that govern the laminar-turbulent transition over a flat plate with surface imperfections, to mimick the flow over an engine nacelle-lip, either ... -
Study of Fuel-Oxygen Mixing in a Cold Single Shot Linear Rotating Detonation Engine
An experimental and numerical study was undertaken to examine the detonation behaviour and the effect of mixing in a Cold Single Shot Linear Rotating Detonation Engine. Observations of the experimental work were performed ... -
Ex vivo Mechanical Testing and FEA Modelling of Bovine Trabecular Bone
Osteoporosis, a disease characterized by bone tissue deterioration, primarily occurs in trabecular bone regions. Trabecular bone remodels in response to mechanical loads and is of interest to researchers for developments ... -
Practical Considerations for Effective Markerless Motion Capture Research
In any successful research endeavour, the data collection protocol is a crucial element to consider in experiments. Tools appropriate for data collection are borne out of need, and new tools emerge as previous limitations ... -
Numerical Study of Detonation Propagation in a Nonuniform Hydrogen-Oxygen Layer Bounded by an Inert Gas
This numerical study investigates the propagation failure and limits of a detonation through stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen layer stratified above an inert gas with a diffuse interface at atmospheric pressure. The study ... -
Data-Driven Bottleneck Identification for Serial Production Lines
Bottleneck identification is an important challenge for manufacturing firms to address in pursuit of increased manufacturing capacity. Prominent efforts used simulation-based approaches but are seldom extended to industry ... -
On The Yield and Fracture of Cast A205
A205 is an Al-Cu-Ag-Ti-Mg-TiB2 age-hardenable alloy developed to improve castability in long freezing range alloys and results in a unique two-region microstructure consisting of TiB2 rich intergranular regions (IGRs) and ... -
Design and Validation of an Open-Source 3D Printable Bioreactor System for Ex Vivo Bone Culture
In Canada, osteoporosis is a prevailing skeletal disease that is underdiagnosed and undertreated, with an annual economic cost of $4.6 billion. Trabecular bone is widely understood to undergo modelling and remodelling in ... -
Computational Modal Analysis of a Hydraulic Pump Support Structure for a Business Aircraft
Computational modal analysis performed using finite element analysis is a well-established method for estimating the modal parameters of complex structures. The work presented here aims to provide an insight into the ... -
Edge Computing and Machine Learning in Machinery Condition Monitoring
Reactive maintenance in industry is associated with high downtime costs and the risk of catastrophic failure; predictive maintenance has the potential to mitigate these costs and risks. Currently, to analyze tool wear in ... -
Concurrent Topology and Stacking Sequence Optimization of Laminated Plates
In the recent years there has been an increase on the development and application of additive manufacturing techniques permitting engineers to take advantage of non-traditional mechanical components designs. Among some ... -
On the Structural Evolution of a Magnesium-Carbon Composite for Hydrogen Storage on Extended Cycling
Magnesium is an attractive material for solid-state hydrogen storage (SSHS) applications owing to its reversible hydride formation, high theoretical gravimetric hydrogen capacity, natural abundance, and low cost. A significant ... -
Standing Balance of Legged Robots: Leveraging Reduced Order Models to Improve Balancing Performance
Legged robots have the potential to traverse remote or dangerous areas by utilizing intermittent ground contact to navigate through complex terrain. Despite their promise, legged robots, specifically bipeds, are inherently ... -
Packing Optimization of Practical Systems Using a Dynamic Acceleration Methodology
System design is a challenging task. Complex, interacting sub-systems and numerous component-level effects must all be considered during the system design process, often handled by various multidisciplinary design teams. ... -
Towards Modularity and Reconfigurability for Robotic Off-Highway Equipment: A Proof-of-Concept Prototype
Heavy industries, such as the construction, forestry, and mining industries, rely on off-highway mobile equipment to conduct various tasks. Since their advent in the 20th century, these mobile machines have continuously ... -
Atomistic Simulation of Radiation-induced Defects in Ni-based Systems
Nickel (Ni)-based alloys show outstanding mechanical and physical properties at high temperatures and in corrosive environments. Therefore, Ni with measured additions of appropriate alloying elements would be a good ... -
Predicting the Influence of Hydrogen on Zirconium
The corrosion process that ensues when the alloys of zirconium used as structural components and fuel claddings in nuclear reactors react with the heavy water used as coolant in the CANDU® reactors results in the production ... -
Quantification of Reynolds-averaged-Navier-Stokes Model Structural Hypothesis Uncertainty in Transitional Boundary Layer and Airfoil Flows
The Boussinesq turbulent-viscosity hypothesis is intrinsic to many Reynolds-averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based turbulence models and transition models. Although its drawback has been well acknowledged, the uncertainty it ...
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