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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Materials manufacturing"”.
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Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Design and Development of Innovative Materials, Manufacturing Processes, and Technological Applications
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
… Business enterprises that specialise in manufacturing of construction materials (located in Lusaka Province) are of particular interest in this research as that they feed into some of the inputs that the construction sector uses such as steel and concrete. These inputs are used in …
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
… Business enterprises that specialise in manufacturing of construction materials (located in Lusaka Province) are of particular interest in this research as that they feed into some of the inputs that the construction sector uses such as steel and concrete. These inputs are used in …
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Sustainable materials from renewable protein feedstock and waste rubber
This thesis focuses on developing sustainable materials from underutilized feedstock, namely proteins and waste rubber from used car tires. Valorization of proteins for use in engineering plastics can reduce reliance on fossil fuels for materials manufacturing, as well as increase economic …
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Multiscale Modeling and Mechanistic Analysis of Crystallization and Particulate Processes
… solid-form control step in pharmaceutical and materials manufacturing, yet the mechanisms to understand molecular interactions, nucleation, growth, and particle evolution remain incompletely understood. Key knowledge gaps persist in explaining how solvation dynamics trigger antisolvent …
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Hyper-light architecture : composite tower for Hong Kong
… beg ins with an interest in understanding the materials, manufacturing and aesthetics of modern product design and its relation ship with architecture and space . The approach to the problem begins with an exploration of specific materials that are commonly used in other design and …
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Effect of de novo peptide properties on self-assembling large amyloid fibers
… in robust fibers, and is thus of interest from a materials manufacturing perspective. The effect of glutamine content and hydrophobicity of template peptides on amyloid aggregation of a template-peptide system involving myoglobin was studied at near-physiological conditions by Fourier transform …
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Materials, device designs, and integration approaches for transient, bio-resorbable silicon electronic systems
… into the body. We report a set of materials, manufacturing schemes, device components and theoretical design tools for a silicon-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology and power scavenging system with oscillators as a building block of wireless …
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Room temperature and cryogenic Yb:YAG thin disk laser : single crystal and ceramic
… temperatures. Novel composite substrate materials are explored for thermal management. Thermal and stress computations are modeled in detail using the finite element analysis COMSOL software. Geometrical and physical optics models, employing ZEMAX and other numerical techniques, are used …
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Model-based Approach for Product Requirement Representation and Generation in Product Lifecycle Management
… with other life-cycle information such as; materials, manufacturing, working environments, finance, and regulations. The determination of these criteria is normally error-prone. It is difficult to identify and maintain the completeness and consistency of the requirement information across …
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Pyrometallurgical Oxide-Sulfide Anion Exchange for Improved Material Separation and Metal Production
… required to produce pure compounds amenable to materials manufacturing and metal production. An alternative approach is the development of chemical pretreatments that enable low cost, environmentally sustainable physical separations instead. This can be accomplished via pyrometallurgical anion …
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Case for sustainability in strategy and operations : overcoming the challenges of product design in creating competitive advantages in circular supply chains
… manufactured using non-renewable sources and raw materials, manufacturing wastes are discarded as unusable, product is sold through the supply chain often creating more disposal of wastes, the final product is used by the end consumer till a less than optimal end-of-life, and then disposed or …
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One-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials And Manufacturing of Deformable Electronics For Healthcare and Soft Robotics
… dimensional (1D) nanostructures of electronic materials are promising material system for fabricating soft electronics due to their unique form factor. Despite significant state-of-the-art advances, the realization of deformable electronics using 1D nanomaterials requires dedicated material …
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Development of a methodology for the rapid implementation of a sustainable lean manufacturing system
… The Eastman Kodak Company, through the Imaging Materials Manufacturing Division, is actively working on spreading a Kodak Operating System (KOS) philosophy throughout the company. The Kodak Canada, Inc. (KCI) site in Toronto, Canada is supporting some of the pioneer projects. Most companies are …
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Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials for Biomedical Devices
… their full potential. Rapid advancements in materials, manufacturing, and structural design are making personalised, comfortable, and lightweight medical devices possible. In this thesis, material extrusion additive manufacturing is used to enhance the functionality of polymers for the …
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Lithium-Ion Battery Composites with Higher Mechanical Strength: Multifunctional Power Integration for Structural Applications
This study proposes and evaluates a multi-functional carbon fiber reinforced composite with embedded Lithium-ion battery for its structural integrity concept. The comparison of versatile composite structures manufactured conventionally, air-sprayed and electrospun multi walled carbon nano tubes in …
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Efficient water management in building: an approach to promote sustainable building construction in India.
… of water needed to manufacture all the building materials throughout their supply chain (indirect embodied water (IEW)), plus the amount of water needed for the building construction (direct embodied water (DEW)). For a building with an operational period of fifty years, this EW can constitute …
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A detailed study on controlled synthesis and device integration of monolithic graphene-graphite structures
… onto a variety of substrates, including soft materials. This thesis also explores the fabrication of crumpled three-dimensional (3D) graphene structure through thermally-activated shrinkage of the base substrate, which can be exploited as 3D biological sensor mechanism. A detailed analysis on …
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Multi-frequency Ultrasound Directed Self-assembly
… in engineering applications such as manufacturing of engineered composite materials that derive their properties from the spatial organization of the filler in the matrix material. Although this work focuses specifically on ultrasound wave fields, the theoretical model is valid for …
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A study of the extrusion of particulate cellulosic composite materials
… to the manufacture of timber based composite materials such as particleboard rely on platen pressing a premix of carefully chosen and prepared timber particles and an adhesive to produce flat sheets. Historically such routes have made very inefficient use of forest resources, and because of …