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Designing optimisation of a cane haulage vehicle.
(2008)
The sugar industry transports in excess of 20 million tons of sugarcane per annum, equating to approximately 800 000 road consignments. This entails substantial expenditure on vehicle capital and operational costs. There ...
Autonomous mobile materials handling platform architecture for mass customisation.
(2008)
In order to facilitate the materials handling requirements of production structures configured for Mass Customisation Manufacturing, the design of requisite materials handling and routing systems must encompass new conceptual ...
Parallel robot design incorporating a direct end effector sensing system.
(2007)
This dissertation details the development of a parallel robot with an integrated direct end
effector sensing system, from concept to prototype model and includes details of research,
design, simulation, construction, ...
An investigation into the performance of plasma and laser coatings under rolling contact.
(2008)
Rolling contact is experienced by a large number of components in mechanical designs. Examples include roller bearings and ink distribution rollers in the printing industry. Rolling contact results in surface wear. It is ...
An experimental and numerical convective heat transfer analysis over a transonic gas turbine rotor blade.
(2006)
An experimental and numerical investigation of the flow and convective heat transfer distribution around a high turning angle gas turbine rotor blade has been carried out at the University of Kwa-Zulu, Durban campus. This ...
Reconfigurable modular machine design for reconfigurable manufacturing environment.Reconfigurable modular machine design for reconfigurable manufacturing environment.
(2006)
Manufacturing techniques are based on the principles of Flexible Manufacturing and Dedicated Manufacturing for mass production. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) is a manufacturing system that can provide for Agile ...
Variable sensor system for guidance and navigation of AGVs.
(2008)
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) depend on sensor systems to guide and navigate in manufacturing environments. The sensor system must ensure the correct path is followed and monitor the vehicle’s progress as it proceeds ...
Heat transfer enhancement in nano-fluids suspensions : thermal wave effects and hyperbolic heat conduction.
(2005)
The spectacular heat transfer enhancement revealed experimentally in nanofluids suspensions is being investigated theoretically at the macro-scale level aiming at explaining the possible mechanisms that lead to such ...
An automated apparatus for non-contact inspecting of mass produced custom products.
(2009)
The evolution of the manufacturing industry may be viewed as proceeding from Dedicated
Manufacturing Systems (DMS) to Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS). Customer
requirements change unpredictably, and so DMS ...
Thermal shock and thermal stress prediction on a highly loaded turbine nozzle guide vane based on an aerodynamic and thermal analysis.
(2005)
A 2-D plain strain CFD/FEM model to simulate thermal shocks and stresses in a turbine blade has been set up using the commercially available software FLUENT and NASTRAN. The model was validated against the experimental ...