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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"material development"”.
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Product-level Bill of Material Development Methodology : process implementation
… the Product Operations group enables the development engine by standardizing and refining operations processes. The Bill of Materials Development Methodology (BOM DM) is a new process created to reduce BOM structuring errors and lead to an improved fulfillment experience for Cisco …
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Product-level bill of material development process : managing complexity
… and maintaining product-level bills of materials (BOMs) has resulted in inconsistencies in BOM structure leading to product launch delays, increased product support costs, and lower customer satisfaction. Furthermore the complexity of having a large number of different, in effect …
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Advancements in concrete material sustainability : supplementary cementitious material development and pollutant interaction
… clay and fly ash supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) used in cement based materials were examined for their chemical and mechanical performance, as well as their pollutant interaction. This dissertation addresses three primary research questions, namely: (i) can zincite additions …
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Metallic powders production via Gas Atomization: Material development for Laser Powder Bed Fusion processing
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3D-printed adsorbents for gas separations: A material development, kinetic assessment, and process performance investigation
“Adsorbent materials are promising for various gas purification processes, however, forming them into structured contactors is paramount in enhancing mass transfer properties and reducing pressure losses. In this research, various adsorbents were engineered into structured contactors with 3D …
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Material development and characterization for high salinity water for desalination by membrane distillation at high temperature and pressure
… MS research, presented in this thesis, is on the development and characterization of suitable materials for high temperature and pressure MD applications. My future work will aim at developing more advanced materials and systems for MD desalination. Several commercially-available or …
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CYCLIC SEQUENTIAL ADSORPTION DESORPTION/THERMAL-CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT, PROCESS ADVANCEMENT/IMPROVEMENT, AND NUMERICAL MODELING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION
… develop novel adsorbent/catalyst dual-function materials (DFMs) for the process, 2) improve the operability of a one-bed-one-column reactor configuration for the process, and 3) develop a numerical model of the process. Sol-gel and/or atomic layer deposition methods to synthesize these DFMs: …
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Super green: an architect’s redesign of concrete façade panels using waste materials
… on the rise, the importance of sustainable developments in cities are more crucial than ever. In this research the vertical space is being tested due to it being the most underutilized and available space within current city designs (Gehl, 2010). It is also the orientation that proposes the …
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Exploring Networks of Interaction at the Iron Age Site of Mtanye, South Western Zimbabwe
… not only networks of interaction but also socio-material development. Further, research tends to focus on society as the source of action in these processes. Using the site of Mtanye, the aim of this study is to create a relational ontology in which agency is distributed among heterogenous …
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Measurement of the vortex depinning force in a high temperature superconductor
… 1986 [2]. Yet despite much progress in theory, material development and experimental techniques and measurement, many questions still remained unanswered.
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for the measurement of GeSn/(Si)GeSn
… EL measurements provides relevant information on material quality, bandgap energy, current density, and device efficiency. Prior to this work, the in-house PL set-up of this lab which involves the use of a commercially-obtained dispersive spectrometer was used for characterizing both GeSn thin …
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Chemical inflation for assisted assembly
… state-changing techniques as a medium for material activation, we provide a framework for a two-part assembly process, starting from the manufacturing side, whereby a structural body is given its form, through to the user side, where the form potential of a soft structure is activated and a …
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Re-Architecting the DoD acquisition process : a transition to the information age
… slowly and at increasing expense. The military material development process was designed around a platform-centric system and worked well, but now the information age is causing a move to network-centric systems. This fundamental shift is not aligned with the DoD development process and reform …
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Development and Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool to Incorporate Redundancy in the Development of Instructional Materials
… task requiring specialized knowledge is the development of instructional materials. Instructional message design (IMD) is a problem solving process to improve the quality of instructional materials through the application of research based principles. As this process is often not covered in …
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Characterization of Material’s Elastic-plastic Properties Through Microindentation Testing with a Cylindrical Flat-tip Indenter
<p>Advanced material development requires its properties being characterized in a micro/nano scale. Traditional tests on the macro scale are impractical based on size of specimen and testing equipment. The Berkovich pyramidal sharp tip nano-indenter is not able to be used to find material's …
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Creation of brain tissue-mimicking material and multi-material gradient 3D printer for magnetic resonance elastography phantom
… and mechanical properties of human brain tissue. Material development consisted of matching the lipid composition of the brain with alternate natural materials to formulate hydrocolloids (based on gelatin or carrageenan) that were both soft and stable at room temperature. The rheology of the …
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Radiative transport in transparent aerogels for solar thermal energy applications
… to date. In this thesis, we explored the development of transparent aerogels for enhancing solar-thermal energy conversion. We established and validated a modeling framework to understand the fundamental light transport within an aerogel sample and yield helpful guidance for material …
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Rare-earth doped aluminum oxide lasers for silicon photonics
… 0.1 dB/cm were obtained for undoped films. The development of active photonics components has been realized by use of rare-earth metals as dopants. By co-sputtering aluminum and erbium targets, Er3+ dopants at concentrations on the order of 1.0x1020 cm-3 have been added to the Al2O3 host medium. …
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III-V OMVPE growth and characterisation of graded AlₓGaₓ₋₁As-GaAs layers and heterointerfaces for the development of GRIN-SCH lasers and Gunn diodes
… phase epitaxy (OMVPE). This work is based on the material development of such device structures and systematically shows the steps taken to achieve the final goal of repeatedly producing high quality devices geared towards small-scale production. The key elements of the process are the realisation …
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