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Author:

Atli Veltin, Bilim

Title:

EFFECT OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS ON THE IN-PLANE CRUSHING BEHAVIOR OF HONEYCOMBS AND HONEYCOMBS WITH FACESHEETS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

honeycomb crushing
energy absorption
cellular honeycombs

File:

Download Thesis_Bilim.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan S Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Tiwari, Chandrashekhar

Title:

INNOVATIVE ENERGY ABSORBING AND LOAD LIMITING DEVICES BASED ON COMPOSITE TUBES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

composite tubes
energy absorption
load limiting
extension-twist
stitch ripping
foam crushing

File:

Download Chandrashekhar_Tiwari_MS_Thesis_AUG09.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Semperlotti, Fabio

Title:

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION VIA NONLINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURAL INTENSITY METHODS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Structural Surface Intensity
Structural Intensity
model free
baseline free
damage localization
HHRS
subharmonics
superharmonics
higher order harmonics
Nonlinear Structural Surface Intensity
Nonlinear Structural Intensity

File:

Download THESIS_FS_finalrev_3_combined.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

Author:

Paik, Jinho

Title:

The Aeroelastic Stability Improvements of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors By Active and Passive Approaches

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

design optimization
whirl flutter
soft-inplane rotor
tiltrotor aircraft
feedback control

File:

Download Jinho-Paik-Dissertation-Aug09.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Seongkyu

Title:

Prediction of Acoustic Scattering in the Time Domain and its Applications to Rotorcraft Noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

acoustic scattering
helicopter noise
equivalent source method
pressure gradient
aeroacoustics

File:

Download Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Schmidt, Walter Thomas

Title:

OPEN-CRACK DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS OF ALUMINUM PANELS USING STRUCTURAL INTENSITY-BASED TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace engineering
damage detection
structural intensity

File:

Download Walter_Schmidt_MS_Thesis_120109_.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guo, Wei

Title:

Flight Control Design for Rotorcraft with Variable Rotor Speed

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft
flight control
variable rotor speed
rotor state feedback

File:

Download Dissertation_WeiGuo.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

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