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Author:

Muller, Andrea Marie

Title:

IDENTIFICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL DEFORMATION AND FAILURE MECHANISMS IN ARMOR CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Spherical Indentation
Ceramic Armor
Spinel
AlON
AlN

File:

Download Muller_PhD_Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

David John Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David John Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Richard Hellmann Jr., Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Arora, Amit

Title:

THERMOMECHANICAL CONDITIONS AND STRESSES ON THE FRICTION STIR WELDING TOOL

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

friction stir welding
tool design
stresses
theromechanical modeling

File:

Download Amit_Arora_MATSE_PhD_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Tarasankar Deb Roy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member

Author:

Saengdeejing, Arkapol

Title:

A Computational Study of Superconducting Materials: A Case Study in Carbon-Doped MgB₂

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermodynamic modeling
density functional theory
superconductor
CALPHAD
MgB₂

File:

Download Saengdeejing-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Gauntt, Bryan Douglas

Title:

The nano-composite nature of vanadium oxide thin films used for infrared microbolometers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

vanadium oxide
thin films
nano-composites
microbolometer
infrared detection
transmission electron microscopy
microstructure

File:

Download BDGauntt_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Elizabeth Dickey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan�Trolier�McKinstry, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Ribic, Brandon David

Title:

MODELING OF PLASMA AND THERMO-FLUID TRANSPORT IN HYBRID WELDING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

fluid flow
heat transfer
surface active elements
numerical modeling
laser-arc hybrid welding
plasma properties
keyhole mode welding

File:

Download THESIS_RIBIC_B.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Tarasankar Deb Roy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member

Author:

Downey, Brian P

Title:

High Current Density Stability of Ohmic Contacts to Silicon Carbide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high current
electromigration
Pd
contact
ohmic
SiC
stability

File:

Download BPDowneyDissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Chao

Title:

UNDERSTANDING OF CATALYST DEACTIVATION CAUSED BY SULFUR POISONING AND CARBON DEPOSITION IN STEAM REFORMING OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON FUELS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrogen
reforming
Nickel
Rhodium
Deactivation
Sulfur poisoning
Carbon deposition

File:

Download PH.D.Thesis_Chao_20110411.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yongsheng Chen, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, DongEung

Title:

THERMODYNAMIC MODELING AND PREDICTION OF ELASTIC AND THERMAL EXPANSION PROPERTIES OF NI-BASE SUPERALLOYS: APPLICATION TO NI-AL-PT-CR-HF SYSTEM WITH γ AND γ' PHASES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermodynamic modeling
Ni-base superalloys
elastic property
thermal expansion property

File:

Download DongEung_Kim-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Digby D Macdonald, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Vlahos, Eftihia

Title:

Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Multiferroics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

confocal microscopy
thin films
multiferroics
nonlinear optics
phase transitions
symmetry

File:

Download EVlahosDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Griggio, Flavio

Title:

Local Piezoelectric Behavior in PZT-Based Thin Films for Ultrasound Transducers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PZT
thin films
ultrasound transducer
piezo-force microscopy

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Flavio_Griggio.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member