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A hybrid approach for developing, extending, and implementing industrial maintenance knowledge graphs and semantic ontologies to support smart maintenance diagnostics
(2022-12)The unstructured historical data stored in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) is a mine of maintenance diagnostic information. This data is often underused due to its unstructured and informal nature. ... -
Study of Threading Operations in Austempered Ductile Iron
(2022-12)The focus of this research was to compare three different methods of threading holes into grade 1 ADI and to determine the viability of plastically deforming threads (thread forming) into ADI rather than cutting the ... -
Laboratory Evaluation of Storage Stability for CRM Asphalt Binders
(2022-08)This study was performed to quantify storage stability depending on CRM binder content. The percentages of crumb rubber used for CRM binder were 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%. According to ASTM D7173, the CRM binder sample was ... -
Capability Language Processing (CLP): Classification and Ranking of Manufacturing Suppliers Based on Unstructured Capability Data
(2022-05)In manufacturing industry, data is available in both structured and unstructured forms. Although the unstructured data represented in natural language text contains valuable information and knowledge, its effective ... -
Design and Analysis of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
(2022-05)Currently, capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have emerged as an alternative to the well-established piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs). The micromachining technology has attracted ... -
An accelerated test method to evaluate cementitious mixtures subjected to chemical sulfate attack
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Alkali-silica reaction and delayed ettringite formation in rapid setting hydraulic cementitious systems
(2021-08)The objective of this thesis is to generate a deeper understanding of how rapid setting and hardening cements perform when being exposed to environments that can hypothetically accelerate or reduce the alkali-silica reaction ... -
Evaluation of Petroleum Resin Effectiveness on Asphalt Binder Viscosity
(2021-08)This study presents an experimental evaluation of viscosity changes in polymer modified asphalt binders due to the temperature changes. Petroleum Resin (PE) as one of the tackifier polymers in the market has been considered ... -
A Study of the Aluminum Industry with an Industrial Arts Study Guide
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Accelerated Carbonation Assessment of High-Volume Fly Ash Concrete
(2019-08)This investigation deals with determining the effect of 57% relative humidity and 4% CO2 concentration on class C and class F fly ash concrete specimens under accelerated carbonation. Fly ash concrete specimens ... -
Alkali Silica Reactivity of Blended Class C and Class F Fly Ash Systems
(2019-08)This study presents an assessment of the reactivity and performance of blended systems containing Class C and Class F fly ashes, including fly ashes produced from blended coal sources (bituminous and lignite). Seven fly ... -
The Development of Ultra High Strength Concrete Mixtures using Waste Foundry Sand
(2017-05)This study presents the development of Ultra High Strength Concrete (UHSC) mixtures using waste foundry sand (WFS). This was done through an iterative laboratory trial batching process and experimental evaluation of the ... -
Construction Demand Forecasting Based on Conventional and Supervised Machine Learning Methods
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Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) characterization of polymer modified asphalt binder containing wax additives
(2018-05)The effect of wax additives on the characteristics of polymer modified asphalt (PMA) binders (SIS, SBS and CRM) was investigated in this study. The binders were blended using the two wax additives (LEADCAP and Sasobit) and ... -
Semantic Text Analytics Technique for Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers
(2018-05)Most of the information available in the manufacturing industry is in unstructured, natural language format. The unstructured data could contain important and useful information that can inform decision makers across ...
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The Effects of Limestone Powder Particle Size on the Mechanical Properties and the Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete
(2016-12)The major environmental impact of concrete comes from the CO₂ emissions during cement production. The main goal of this research project is to develop an optimized cement replacement to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ ... -
Design and optimization of data acquisition system using wireless underground sensor networks
(2017-11-28)The growth of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSN) will lead to numerous emerging applications, such as underground pipelines, oil reservoir monitoring, intelligent agriculture, earthquake and landslide forecasting, ... -
TIG Welding Skill Extraction using a Machine Learning Algorithm
(2017-12)Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is the superior arc welding process used in the manufacturing industry for high quality welds. Skilled welders are capable of monitoring a weld bead and dynamically adjusting the welding ... -
Miniaturization of Computer Mouse as a Wearable Device
(2017-12)Wearable computing is one of the fastest growing technologies today. Smartwatches are poised that it can take over more than half of the wearable devices market in the near future. Smartwatch screen size is a limiting ... -
Developing a simplified LCA/LCI model of foundry waste used in concrete
(2017-08)This study presents a developed simplified LCA/LCI model of Portland Cement Concrete using foundry waste (slags and foundry spent sand) by investigating present LCA case studies with varying supplementary cementitious ...
