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Author:

Leng, Rui

Title:

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD ACTUATED MULTILAYERED POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smart materials
Magneto-active elastomers
Magneto-active polymer-based materials
Shape memory polymers
Polymer actuation
Polymer Characterization
Additive manufacturing
Printability
Unimorph
Biomedical field

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Parekh, Mihir

Title:

Flowing Electrolyte Metal Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dendrite
Solid Electrolyte Interphase
Flowing Electrolyte
Metal anodes
Creeping flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Sukwon Choi, Major Field Member
Christopher Rahn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chao-Yang Wang, Major Field Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member

Author:

Mokhtari, Kasra

Title:

Incorporating Social Information into An Autonomous Vehicle's Decision-Making Process and Control

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Autonomous Vehicles
Navigation
Pedestrians
Path Planning
Risk-Aware Decision-Making

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alan Wagner, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Major Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ochoa Lleras, Nicolas

Title:

Control Systems and Human Factors for the Prevention of Tractor Overturn

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Control systems
Tractor
Rollover
ADAS
Human Factors
Simulated environments

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Daiwei

Title:

Development of materials for all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium-sulfur battery
All-solid-state battery
Lithium thiophosphate electrolytes

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Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sharp, Logan

Title:

Low-Temperature Electron Wind Force Annealing through Electropulsing Treatment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

annealing
electropulsing
EPT
electron wind
electron wind force
EWF
titanium carbide
Ti3C2Tx
MXene
film
NiTi
nitinol
shape memory alloy
SMA
electrical resistivity
thermal microscopy
scanning electron microscopy
SEM
low temperature
Raman spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Soares, Nicholas

Title:

Incorporating Novel Sprue Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Nickel Aluminum Bronze Castings

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

metal casting
sand casting
3D sand printing
additive manufacturing
nickel aluminum bronze

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Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Tanusree

Title:

Chemical kinetic investigation of the thermal decomposition of energetic materials: ammonia borane, ammonium perchlorate & hmx-tagzt

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Ammonia borane
Quantum mechanics
Hydrogen release
Reaction pathway
perchloric acid
oxygen release
numerical simulation
HMX
TAGzT
TGA
FTIR
thermal decomposition
nitramine-based energetic materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adri van Duin, Committee Member
Jacqueline O’Connor, Committee Member
Joseph F. Horn, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ingram, Peter

Title:

Improvements to Temperature Predictions of Film Cooled Solids Using Iterative Conjugate Heat Transfer and Reduced Order Film Modeling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

film cooling
ICHT
ROFM

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Haworth, Major Field Member
Anil Kulkarni, Major Field Member
David Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Chen, Xi

Title:

Mixed finite elements for solving the time-dependent incompressible Navier–Stokes equation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

incompressible Navier-Stokes equation
mixed finite element
pressure robustness
implicit Runge-Kutta methods
energy stability
structure preserving

File:

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Committee Members:

John Michael Cimbala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Alexander S Rattner, Committee Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dinesh Nair, Manasi

Title:

SELF BALANCING OF BATTERY CELLS AND PV ARRAYS – A REAL-TIME PHYSICAL VALIDATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery
PV array
Self-balancing
Battery balancing

File:

Download SELF_BALANCING_OF_BATTERY_CELLS_AND_PV_ARRAYS__A_REAL_TIME_PHYSICAL_VALIDATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Herschel C Pangborn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Alattar, Bader

Title:

Investigating Biologically Inspired Inverted Landing Strategies in a Nano-Quadcopter

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Biologically Inspired
Quadcopter
Crazyflie
Control
Reinforcement Learning
Blue Bottle Flies
Inverted Landing
Visual Cues
Optical Flow

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tilton, Maryam

Title:

MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS AND META-BIOMATERIALS FABRICATED VIA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
Biomechanics
Mechanical behavior
Fracture fixation implants
Large bone defects
metamaterials

File:

Download MaryamTilton_Dissertation_08-13-2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
April D Armstrong, Outside Member
Michael W. Hast, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Velez, Chris

Title:

Quench Detection Logic for High Temperature Superconducting Magnets Based on Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

high temperature superconductors
optical fiber sensors
distributed sensing
Rayleigh-scattering interrogated optical fibers
Magnet quench detection
structural health monitoring
superconducting magnets
incipient fault detection
Monotonic
time-validation
data analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Justin Schwartz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member

Author:

Moser, Eric

Title:

Development of a Computational Model of a High Temperature Lithium-Carbon Dioxide Reactor for Space Power Generation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD Modeling
Lithium-CO2 Combustion
Power Generation
Multiphase Flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Alexander S Rattner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph John Cor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J. Leonard, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Michael Manahan, Committee Member

Author:

Lukac, Meghan

Title:

Longitudinal Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Gait Parameters for ALS Patients Using Remotely Collected Foot-Worn IMU Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ALS
Gait
Longitudinal Analysis
Walking Speed
Remote Monitoring
IMU

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Michael Geronimo, Committee Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Committee Member

Author:

Roy, Tanushree

Title:

Towards Safe and Secure Cyber-Physical-Social systems: Theory and Application to Smart City Transportation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cyberattack
anomaly-resilience
distributed parameter systems
stealthy attack
transportation
smart city
socio-technical system
fault diagnostics
human-centric
Cumulative Prospect Theory
route choice
social data
traffic model

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amrita Basak, Outside Field Member
Satadru Dey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Unit Member
Chris Rahn, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member

Author:

Longchamps, Ryan

Title:

Integrated Actuation and Thermal Management of Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Battery
Thermal Management
Lithium-ion
Electric vehicles
Battery safety
Battery actuation
Thermal Modulation
Self-heating

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Committee Members:

Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Chris Rahn, Major Field Member
Chao-Yang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Stearns, Aaron J

Title:

Design of an Active Adaptable Acoustic Metamaterial Perforated Plate for Structural Vibration Reduction

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

acoustic metamaterial
structural acoustics
vibration
piezoelectric
optimization
finite element method
Floquet-Bloch
vibration control
plate
shunted piezoelectric
adaptable
active

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Major Field Member
Stephen Hambric, Outside Field Member
Robert Campbell, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Benjamin Beck, Special Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kumru, Hanife Tugba

Title:

Numerical and Experimental Methods for the Design of Radiofrequency Ablation Procedures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

RFA
DNNs
Facet joint pain
bipolar
Temperature-controlled
FEA
MRI

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Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Reuben Kraft, Major Field Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anilchandra Attaluri, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member