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Author:

Howard, Anna Kathleen Tyler

Title:

The Aeromechanical Stability of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

full-span
whirl flutter
semi-span
civil tiltrotor
aeromechanical stability
rotorcraft
helicopter
pitch-lag coupling
ground resonance
pitch-flap coupling
air resonance
aeroelastic couplings
stability
tiltrotor

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Austruy, Julien

Title:

ROTOR HUB VIBRATION AND BLADE LOADS REDUCTION, AND ENERGY HARVESTING VIA EMBEDDED RADIAL OSCILLATOR

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

vibration control
rotorcraft
energy harvesting

File:

Download Dissertation_JulienAustruy_Dec2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

Author:

Long, Justin Allan

Title:

Nonlinear Active Vibration Based Damage Detection and Localization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear
vibration
damage
detection
structural
health
monitoring
automation
airframe
rotorcraft
localization

File:

Download JustinLong_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mahmood, Raheel Sheikh

Title:

Vibration energy harvesting from rotorcraft drive systems using thermoelectric conversion of heat generated by mechanical damping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

energy harvesting
vibration
rotorcraft

File:

Download RaheelMahmood_MSThesis_Dec2014.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saetti, Umberto

Title:

Rotorcraft Simulations with Coupled Flight Dynamics, Free Wake, and Acoustics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft
noise
control
control systems
dynamic inversion
feedback
flight dynamics
free wake
CHARM
PSUHeloSim
PSUWOPWOP

File:

Download UmbertoSaetti_Thesis_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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