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Author:: Brouwers, Edward William
Title:: The Experimental Investigation of a Rotor Icing Model with Shedding
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Rotorcraft
icing
Adverse Environment Rotor Test Stand
AERTS
LEWICE
shedding
ice accretion
impingment limits
torque degradation
File:: Download Ed__Brouwers_Masters_Thesis_2010_rev2.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Slaby, Jason
Title:: Influence of Pylon Airloads and Composite Tailoring On Aeroelastic Stability of a Forward Swept Wing
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Composite
Tiltrotor
Aeroelastic Stability
stop/fold
File:: Download SlabyMSthesis2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Romano, Peter Quinn
Title:: Investigation of Contact Acoustic Nonlinearities on Metal and Composite Structures via Intensity Based Health Monitoring Systems
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Health Monitoring
Structural Dynamics
CAN
Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity
Structural Acoustics
Vibration
Dynamics
File:: Download PSU_Thesis_PQR_revFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: WANG, SHENGLAN
Title:: EMBEDDED INERTIAL DAMPERS FOR CONTROL OF TRANSIENT ROTOR LOADS DURING RESONANCE CROSSING
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Inertial Damper
transient loads reduction
File:: Download Shenglan_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Choephel, Tenzin
Title:: Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Roughness as an Aerodynamic Flow Control Method
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: dynamic roughness
flow control
stall
File:: Download Tenzin_MS_thesis2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Kong, William
Title:: A Method of Selecting and Configuring Optimal energy Absorbing Cargo Restraint Systems to Improve Crashworthiness
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: multi-objective optimization
cargo restraints
crashworthiness
cargo dynamics
crash simulation
energy absorbers
File:: Download Willam_Kong_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Saribay, Zihni Burcay
Title:: ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PERICYCLIC VARIABLE-SPEED TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR HELICOPTER MAIN-GEARBOX
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Helicopter Transmission
face-gear
pericyclic variable-speed transmission
elastohydrodynamic lubrication
File:: Download Analytical_Investigation_of_the_Pericyclic_Variable_Speed_Transmission_system_for_helicopter_main-gearbox.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward C Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Surendra B Rao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Charles Bill, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Liming Chang, Committee Member

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Author:: Marr, Conor Matthew
Title:: Conceptualization, Modeling, and Characterization of a Cf Driven Multi-State Lead-lag Bypass Damper
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Damper
Fluidlastic
Hydraulic
CFD
Modeling
Multi-State
Bypass
Passive Damping
Lead-Lag Damper
Ground Resonance
File:: Download CMarrPhDThesis2012FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

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Author:: Henry, Todd Carl
Title:: Static and Dynamic Characterization of Composite Materials for Future Driveshaft Systems
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Flexible Matrix Composite
FMC
Driveshaft
Filament Winding
Helicopter
File:: Download 1-Henry_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Overmeyer, Austin David
Title:: Actuator Bondline Optimization and Experimental Deicing of a Rotor Blade Ultrasonic Deicing System
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: deicing
de-icing
icing
ultrasonic
electro-thermal
low power
ice protection
helicopter
rotor blades
File:: Download Overmeyer_MS_Thesis_2012_FINAL_V4.pdf
Committee Members:: Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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