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Roundy, Shadrach J. | A cost-effective planar electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer | This paper presents a planar multi-pole electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer. We report on the design, manufacture, and performance results of integrated devices based on this transducer. The transducer leverages recent advancements in the manufacture of multi-pole magnets and can be impleme... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Ameel, Timothy A; Gale, Bruce K.; Harvey, Ian R. | A three-semester interdisciplinary educational program in microsystems engineering | Motivated by an NSF IGERT grant in the general area of microfluidics, a sequence of three interdisciplinary technical courses has been developed in the emerging area of microsystems engineering. Designed to be taken in series, these courses take students, both graduate and upper-level undergraduates... | | 2004 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Lawrence, Steve M.; Dhillon, Gurpreet S. | Acute peripheral nerve recording characteristics of polymer-based longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes | We examined the recording characteristics of two different types of polymer-based longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes (LIFEs) in peripheral nerve: single-stranded (s-polyLIFEs) and multistranded (m-polyLIFEs). Recordings were also made from Pt-Ir wire-based electrodes (PtIrLIFEs) as a control. T... | Sciatic Nerve; Intrafascicular Electrodes, Peripheral Nerve Recording | 2004 |
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Jayamohan, Harikrishnan | Applications of microfluidics for molecular diagnostics | Diagnostic assays implemented in microfluidic devices have developed rapidly over the past decade and are expected to become commonplace in the next few years. Hundreds of microfluidics-based approaches towards clinical diagnostics and pathogen detection have been reported with a general theme of ra... | Microfluidics; Micro-total-analysis-systems; Lab-on-a-chip; Point-of-care devices; Sample preparation; MEMS; Rapid prototyping; Biomarker detection; Personalized medicine; Global health care | 2012-11-04 |
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Ecsedy, Kathryn Lyn; Harvey, Ian R. | The artistic applications of M.E.M.S.: gallery on a chip | Our research explored the crossroads between art and science to create tiny devices known as MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems). These artistic devices are powered by micro charge-pumped actuation of electrons in a scanning electron microscope, utilizing a phenomenon once considered an irri... | Artistic applications; MEMS; Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems; Kinetic micro sculpture; Micro charge pump actuation; Trapeze Interactive Poster | 2010-03-15 |
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Ameel, Timothy A;Harvey, Ian R.; Miller, Mark S.; Blair, Steven; Gale, Bruce K.; Ring, Terry Arthur | Building academic, research, and commercialization programs in micro and nano science and engineering at the University of Utah | Abstract-This paper presents a case-study of some University /Government / Industry interactions at the University of Utah that build research and academic programs and create opportunities fur economic growth in the areas of micro and nanu science and engineering. | | 2003 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Characterization of a microscale thermal-electrical field-flow fractionation system | A microscale thermal-electrical field-flow fractionation (ThElFFF) channel is reported for the first time and preliminary characterization results show high retention at certain operating conditions including relatively high flow rates when compared to standard microscale electrical or thermal field... | | 2010 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Cyclical magnetic field flow fractionation | In this study, a new magnetic field flow fractionation (FFF) system was designed and modeled by using finite element simulations. Other than current magnetic FFF systems, which use static magnetic fields, our system uses cyclical magnetic fields. Results of the simulations show that our cyclical mag... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Deep recurrent neural networks for building energy prediction | This poster illustrates the development of a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) model using long-short-term memory (LSTM) cells to predict energy consumption in buildings at one-hour time resolution over medium-to-long term time horizons ( greater than or equal to 1 week). | Machine learning; Energy; Building energy modeling; Deep learning; Recurrent neural networks; Prediction | 2017-01-13 |
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Brown, Don R. | The design and implementation of partnet | PartNet is a federated database for providing interactive online access to mechanical parts catalogs. The data contained in the vendor's product database is exported to the federated database using a networkbased distributed database protocol. A Single coherent view of these vendor databases is pro... | | 1995 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Dhillon, Gurpreet S. | Direct neural sensory feedback and control of a prosthetic arm | Evidence indicates that user acceptance of modern artificial limbs by amputees would be significantly enhanced by a system that provides appropriate, graded, distally referred sensations of touch and joint movement, and that the functionality of limb prostheses would be improved by a more natural co... | Peripheral Nerve Implant; Prosthetic Limb Control; Sensory Feedback | 2005-12 |
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Bianchi, Carlo | Energy demands for commercial buildings with climate variability based on emission scenarios | The impacts of a changing climate are wide-ranging in both impact and scope. This paper investigates the effect that realistic climate variability would have on building energy demands in Salt Lake City, UT to inform planning for air quality impacts. Energy demand scenarios were derived using climat... | BEM; EnergyPlus; Emissions; Climate; Energy | 2017 |
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Lucich, Stephen; Smith, Amanda | Estimating building CO2 emissions reductions with EnergyPlus | The aim of this research is to investigate the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the buildings sector in the Salt Lake Valley by altering the operational strategies of existing buildings. Air quality efforts typically focus on reducing emissions from transportation and industri... | Building energy modeling, Energy efficiency, HVAC, Greenhouse gas emissions | 2014-02-07 |
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Thomas, Tran T. D. | Evaluation of renewable energy technologies and their potential for technical integration and cost-effective use within the U.S. energy sector | Energy demands, environmental impacts of energy conversion, and the depletion of fossil; fuels are constant topics of discussion in the energy industry. Renewable energy technologies; have been proposed for many years to address these concerns. However, the transformation; from traditional methods o... | Renewable energy; Power generation; Electrical grid; Emerging energy systems; System integration | 2017-07 |
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Guilkey, James Edward; Berzins, Martin | Examination and analysis of implementation choices within the material point method (MPM) | The Material Point Method (MPM) has shown itself to be a powerful tool in the simulation of large deformation problems, especially those involving complex geometries and contact where typical finite element type methods frequently fail. While these large complex problems lead to some impressive si... | GIMP; Meshfree methods; Meshless methods; Particle methods; Smoothed particle hydrodynamics; Quadrature | 2008 |
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Guilkey, James Edward | Improved contact algorithm for the material point method and application to stress propagation in granular material | Contact between deformable bodies is a difficult problem in the analysis of engineering systems. A new approach to contact has been implemented using the Material Point Method for solid mechanics, Bardenhagen, Brackbill, and Sulsky (2000a). Here two improvements to the algorithm are described. The f... | Contact algorithm; Material point method; Wave propagation; Granular material; Solid mechanics | 2001 |
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Guilkey, James Edward | Improved velocity projection for the Material Point Method | The standard velocity projection scheme for the Material Point Method (MPM) and a typical form of the GIMP Method are examined. It is demonstrated that the fidelity of information transfer from a particle representation to the computational grid is strongly dependent on particle density and locati... | Material Point Method; GIMP Method; Meshless methods; Velocity projection; Solid mechanics | 2007 |
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Didier, Richard C. | Linking microclimate and energy use with a low cost wall mounted measurement system | Urban microclimate plays a critical role in overall urban energy demand and efficiency. At the building scale, energy use and internal conditions are directly impacted by local microclimate. The direct link between building energy use and local microclimate is through building envelope heat fluxes. ... | Microclimate; Energy; Temperature; Humidity; Arduino; EnergyPlus | 2016-06 |
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Roundy, Shadrach J. | MEMS testing: transition from millions to billions to trillions | Sensors, specifically MEMSbased, have created multiple market tornados over the past 40 years. Most recently there has been a market explosion driven by the widespread adoption of MEMS sensing devices in mobile consumer applications. In the past 5 years the worldwide market has grown from roughly 10... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Adams, Daniel | Microbial production of methane and carbon dioxide from lignite, bituminous coal, and coal waste materials | The aim of this study was to examine microbial methane and CO2 production from bituminous coal waste, lignite, and bituminous coal materials. Bituminous coal and coal waste material were obtained from a Utah mine and lignite was obtained from a commercially available North Dakota sample. Microbial p... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Ameel, Timothy A | Microchannel fluid behavior using micropolar fluid theory | In this paper, we describe microchannel fluid behavior using a numerical model based on micropolar fluid theory and experimentally verify the model using micromachined channels. The micropolar fluid theory augments the laws of classical continuum mechanics by incorporating the effects of fluid ... | | 1998 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Microfluidic devices for rapid and sensitive identification of organisms | Microfluidic devices for rapid and highly sensitive detection of living organisms were developed for two applications. First, a zebrafish embryo genotyping system was developed and shown to be able to genotype embryos in the first 48 hours of the embryos life without damaging the embryos in any a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Adams, Daniel | Micromechanical modeling of high energy composites | High-energy polymer-binded explosives (PBXs) are composed of high-energy crystaline particles and a rubbery binder. The volume fraction of particles is approximately 92 percent. The high-energy particles have a Young's modulus that is three orders of magnitude higher than that of the binder. Eff... | | 2000 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Horch, Kenneth W.; Cha, Kichul | Mobility performance with a pixelized vision system | A visual prosthesis, based on electrical stimulation of the visual cortex, has been suggested as a means for partially restoring functional vision in the blind. The prosthesis would create a pixelized visual sense consisting of punctate spots of light (phosphenes). The present study investigated the... | Visual Prosthesis; Mobility; Phosphene Simulator | 1992 |
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Smith, Amanda D. | Modeling two-phase flow and vapor cycles using the generalized fluid system simulation program | This work presents three new applications for the general purpose fluid network solver code GFSSP developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: (1) cooling tower, (2) vapor-compression refrigeration system, and (3) vapor-expansion power generation system. These systems are widely used across eng... | Modeling; Fluid systems; Cooling tower; Vapor compression refrigeration, vapor power cycle | 2017-09 |