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The growth in popularity of extreme sports, such as skateboarding skating, has posed a problem with public space usage. Currently, of adequate facilities for skaters to practice and the skaters are of public space.This study examines the popularity of skating and the issues that sport, such as safety and liability. Three case studies were analyzed. A set of general guidelines were created using data from some of the field’s notable designers.These guidelines were then used, by the author, to design a skatepark within an existing park in Muncie, Indiana. As a result, a skatepark design and park masterplan, that addresses park cohesiveness, were produced. / Department of Landscape Architecture

This creative project identifies information significant to golf course design. Its purpose is to compile and illustrate information necessary in making preliminary decisions in golf course design. This is accomplished by presenting an overview on golf and golf courses, design and construction of course components, housing, and amenities.In addition, this creative project presents a case study which applies information on golf course design to Pine meadows golf course development in Muncie, Indiana. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The continuum design sensitivity analysis (CDSA) has been applied to the magnetostatic and electrostatic force calculation. This method allows the computation of the net loading force on a body as well as the force distribution on the surface of the body. An algorithm for force calculation combined with a standard field analysis software package is presented. The efficiency and accuracy of the method is proved through the numerical implementation applied to a set of test examples. In addition, the new approach has several advantages over the traditional methods based on the Maxwell Stress Tensor, such as no air gap or artificial interference with the original model is required. Particularly, the performance analysis of a MEMS micro-mirror using CDSA torque calculation is conducted for the first time.

This thesis presents novel aspects of the design of Strategist, a microprocessor designed to support efficient rewriting-based computation and pattern matching in particular. After introducing the architecture of Strategist, three of its novel features are described: predicate compression, quadrature low-swing logic and a high radix, bufferless on-chip network design. Predicate compression allows processors which make use of predicated execution to save a significant amount of code space, issue bandwidth and energy, by compressing predicate register references in a way that makes use of their peculiar temporal distributions. Quadrature low-swing logic is a new logic style which allows significant improvements in efficiency for realising both simple and complex logic functions in modern semiconductor processes. Finally, we describe a high radix on-chip network design which allows low-latency communication to be sustained under high traffic loads despite its simple, bufferless routers. Taken together, these features enable the design of more efficient special purpose multi-core processors, such as Strategist.

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Thesis (MTech (Mechanical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2005 / Perhaps more popular than the piezoresistive type are the capacitive type of micromachined accelerometers. The capacitive accelerometer has many fine characteristics, such as simple structure, high sensitivity, strong ability of resisting disturbance, fast dynamic response and so on. It can also work under abominable condition. So it is occupying an important status in the technology of electronical measurement and being used in many kinds of metrical systems. In this paper, the capacitive accelerometer (CA) we will introduce and design is a parallel plate CA with crab-shape. It will detect the acceleration signal by the change of distance between two electrode plates, and its design standard came from the industrial requirements ofKENTRON Company. The whole paper can be divided into four main phases-introduction, study, design and analysis. At first, we have introduced the purpose and background of this thesis, and then the study and the discussion of relative literature. The content of these articles is mainly about the basic principle, types and applications of micro-sensors and this information will be very helpful to the design and analysis ofmy own CA. The course of design is primarily structure design. The main structures of CA are parallel plate structure and cylinder structure. The parallel plate structure is chosen for our CA after we did the comparison of performance and technique of making between these two types of structures. We use the concentrative mass as the top electrode plate and four beams are connected on the two sides of the plate separately.