Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: multimedia; disk scheduling; admission control. Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-138).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-74).

Thesis (M. S.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Leamy, Michael; Committee Member: Costello, Mark; Committee Member: Ferri, Aldo. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

With highly demanding requirement in current emerging cloud storage and personal computers, hard disk drive recording with high stability and high volume has attached much attention in industry and academy. Recording media and recording head feasible for future high-density recording are both crucial to utilize magnetic recording with 1T bit/in2 recording density. Recoding media with FePt for high density and high stability was investigated in this thesis using FePt polymers with imprinting methods and FePt thin films with ion-beam bombardment technologies. The FePt polymers can be patterned using imprint at micro-and nano-scales. The micro-and nano-patterns could be retained on substrates after sintering at high temperatures. The high magnetic coercivity was proved with line and dot patterns at different scales. Recording heads with Al2O3based magnetic tunneling junction sensors were also studied in thesis. The magnetic tunneling junction sensors were proved to work stable at different temperatures varying from -30oC to 100oC. The long time running test up to 100 hours also proved the stability of the magnetic tunneling junction sensors working in extreme temperatures. Withstate-of-art patterning and depositing technologies, new ideas about using FePt polymer to work as magnetic recording media and using ion beam bombardments to tune the FePt magnetic properties were verified. The feasibility of using Al2O3 based magnetic tunneling junction sensors as recording head was also discussed. / published_or_final_version / Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Mechanical Engineering / Master / Master of Philosophy

Τα κινητήρια συστήματα των χαρτοποιητικών μηχανών που παράγουν τα λεπτά χαρτιά (tissue), σύμφωνα με τα εμπειρικά στοιχεία, παρουσιάζουν διάφορα ηλεκτρικά και μηχανικά προβλήματα, τα οποία μπορούν να αποδοθούν στις μεθόδους που χρησιμοποιούνται για το μέχρι τώρα σχεδιασμό τους. Η παρούσα διατριβή στοχεύει στην επίλυση των προβλημάτων αυτών. Τα προβλήματα αυτά είναι η άνιση κατανομή του μηχανικού φορτίου μεταξύ των δύο κινητήρων του ιδίου τμήματος, η υπερφόρτωση του ενός εκ των δύο κυρίων τμημάτων της χαρτοποιητικής μηχανής και η πλήρης διακοπή της λειτουργίας της, και η εμφάνιση φαινομένων μηχανικού συντονισμού ή ενίσχυσης των ροπών των αξόνων που οδηγούν στην καταστροφή του πολυκινητηρίου συστήματος. Για την επίτευξη του στόχου γίνεται ανάλυση των σημερινών δομών των πολυκινητηρίων συστημάτων των χαρτοποιητικών μηχανών λεπτών χαρτιών και αναδεικνύονται τα προβλήματα των. Προτείνεται η αλλαγή της δομής και νέος σχεδιασμός του πολυκινητήριου συστήματος των χαρτοποιητικών μηχανών λεπτών. Γίνεται ανάλυση του κινητηρίου συστήματος του στεγνωτικού τυμπάνου με δύο κινητήρες συνεχούς ρεύματος με κοινό μηχανικό φορτίο και εξομοίωση με MATLAB/SIMULINK χωρίς ελαστικούς άξονες. Εξετάζεται η συμπεριφορά του συστήματος αυτού με ελαστικούς άξονες μέσω εξομοίωσης. Προτείνεται μία μέθοδος ελέγχου για την κατανομή του συνολικού φορτίου στο πολυκινητήριο σύστημα και γίνεται ανάλυση της στατικής και της δυναμικής συμπεριφοράς μέσω εξομοίωσης. Επίσης εξετάζεται η ορθότητα της μεθόδου ελέγχου στην περίπτωση σφαλμάτων σε μία γέφυρα τροφοδοσίας. Για την αντιμετώπιση των μηχανικών προβλημάτων που ανακύπτουν γίνεται διεξοδική ανάλυση ταλαντώσεων. Χρησιμοποιώντας τον προτεινόμενο σχεδιασμό και τις προτεινόμενες μεθόδους ελέγχου επιτυγχάνεται κατανομή του μηχανικού φορτίου σύμφωνα με την ονομαστική ισχύ των κινητήρων μέσα στο ίδιο τμήμα και αντιμετωπίζεται πλήρως η υπερφόρτιση του ενός από τα δύο κύρια τμήματα της μηχανής και έτσι αποφεύγεται η πλήρης διακοπή της λειτουργίας της. Από την ανάλυση των ταλαντώσεων προκύπτει η δυνατότητα να δίνονται κατευθυντήριες γραμμές για την επιλογή των καταλλήλων κινητήρων και των καταλλήλων αξόνων, δηλ. τη σωστή διαστασιολόγιση του συστήματος. / The drive systems of tissue paper machines present various electrical and mechanical problems according to empirical data, which can be attributed to the used design methods. The present thesis aims at solving of such problems. The problems are: the partial treatment of the load sharing in sections, where two motors drive the same mechanical load, the overloading of one of the two main sections of the machine and the interruption of its operation when these sections are mechanically engaged. Concerning the mechanical part of the drive, problems arise due to torsional oscillations created by the resonance phenomena or the shafts torque amplification. In order to achieve the aim, an analysis is carried out of the current structure of the drive systems and the problems due to this structure are brought out. A modified structure and a new design of the drive system are proposed. A control method is proposed to share the load between the two DC motors of the same section and investigation, analysis and simulation of a drive are carried out. The behavior of the drive with elastic shafts is examined. In order to face the overloading of one of the two main sections of the paper machine, a control method is proposed to share the total load to the two main sections of the machine and an analysis of the steady state and dynamic behavior through simulation is carried out. The correctness of this control method is examined in the case of typical faults in one of the power converters. In order to face the mechanical problems an exhaustive analysis is carried out concerning torsional oscillations. Using the proposed design and control methods, the load sharing, according to the nominal power of the motors, is assured for the sections where two motors drive the same mechanical load. The overloading of one of the two sections is completely faced and the interruption of the machine operation is avoided. Torsional oscillations analysis emerges that guidelines can be given for the selection of suitable shafts and motors, namely the correct dimensioning of the system.

The thesis describes an optimal selective harmonic elimination strategy suitable for singlephase AC-DC converter-fed traction drives. The objective is to eliminate low-order supply current harmonics, including those injected into the supply due to load-side current ripple. Other advantages that the switching strategy has to offer over phase-control include improved supply power factor, reduced VA consumption for a given demand speed and load, reduced torque and speed ripple and smaller armature circuit smoothing inductance. The effect of field current boost on the dynamic response of the drive is also described. It is shown that field boost helps to reduce the speed rise-time by increasing the electromagnetic torque available during acceleration periods. Closed-loop control of a 4-quadrant DC drive is described and a comparison made between the performance of PID-control and pseudo-derivative feedback control. It is shown that pseudo-derivative feedback control has several advantages to offer, amongst which are ease of tuning of the controller gains and a superior performance following load torque disturbances. A laboratory size drive system was designed and built, and used to validate simulation predictions for both the switching strategy and pseudo-derivative feedback control. A microcontroller based hardware implementation of both the switching strategy and a digital pseudo-derivative feedback controller was adopted, with the switching strategy being implemented using an off-line approach of precalculating the switching angles and storing these in look-up tables. The armature voltage controller comprises a dual-converter employing IGBTs as switching devices. The use of IGBTs allows higher switching frequencies at significant power levels than would be possible if GTOs were used. It also simplifies the gate drive circuit design and minimises the need to use snubber circuits.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references and appendixes.

Thesis (MScIng)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1998. / Title from document title page. "July 29, 1998." Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 100 p. : ill. (some col.) Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87).