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Author:: Prakash, Keerti
Title:: MODELING FOR POLYMER/ CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL DAMPING IN A ROTOCRAFT BLADE
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: nanocomposite
damping
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
randomly oriented
rotor blade
rotorcraft
File:: Download MS_Thesis_Keerti_Prakash.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

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Author:: Volpe, Marc
Title:: Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor
File:: Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

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Author:: Corle, Ethan Lewis
Title:: Time-Domain Aeroelastic Stability Predictions of a Semi-Span Tiltrotor
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: tiltrotor
whirl flutter
aeroelastic
stability analysis
rotorcraft
vortex particle method
time-domain stability
File:: Download corle-dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Dr. Matthew Floros, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Blessington, Ryan
Title:: Passive Balancer Development for Rotor Systems in Icing Conditions
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Passive
Balancing
Passive Balancer
Structural
Dynamics
Structural Dynamics
Icing
Adverse environment
Rotor
rotorcraft
helicopter
imbalance
mass balance
File:: Download Blessington_MS_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

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Author:: Prakash, Keerti
Title:: Fiber Reinforced Composites with Carbon Nanotubes for Structural Damping of a Rotorcraft Blade
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: composites
rotorcraft
carbobnanotubes
hybrid-nanocomposite
damping
File:: Download Prakash_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Charles E Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Reddington, Jacob
Title:: Design, Development, and Tuning of a Gimbaled Coaxial UAV
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
co-axial tilting-head rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
flight test
File:: Download Design__Development__and_Tuning_of_a_Gimbaled_Coaxial_UAV_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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