agricultural crops and food materials exert frictional forces on agricultural machinery elements and on storage walls during their harvest, transportation, processing and storage. coefficient of friction is an important parameter to be predetermined in designing equipments and evaluating processes. an assessment of the coefficient of friction for agricultural materials is usually done through s...

Title of Dissertation: A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CREW DECISION-MAKING AND PERFORMANCE IN A DYNAMIC SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT Kevin A. Coyne, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ali Mosleh, Department of Mechanical Engineering The safe operation of complex systems such as nuclear power plants requires close coordination between the human operators and plan...