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Author:

Blessington, Ryan

Title:

Passive Balancer Development for Rotor Systems in Icing Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Passive
Balancing
Passive Balancer
Structural
Dynamics
Structural Dynamics
Icing
Adverse environment
Rotor
rotorcraft
helicopter
imbalance
mass balance

File:

Download Blessington_MS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Reddington, Jacob

Title:

Design, Development, and Tuning of a Gimbaled Coaxial UAV

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
co-axial tilting-head rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
flight test

File:

Download Design__Development__and_Tuning_of_a_Gimbaled_Coaxial_UAV_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Purzak, Jake

Title:

Structural Design of a Rigid Coaxial Rotor System for Wind Tunnel Testing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

rotorcraft
coaxial
structural design
structural analysis
dragonfly
rotor design
rigid rotor
coaxial test system
wind tunnel test system

File:

Download PurzakJake_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Weist, Lauren

Title:

Helicopter Noise Modeling With Varying Fidelity Prediction Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
rotorcraft
noise prediction systems
helicopter noise

File:

Download LWeist_MastersThesis_07182022.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Beyer, Jessica

Title:

Individual Blade Pitch Control (IBC) for Vibration Reduction of Lift-offset Coaxial Rotor Vehicles with Auxiliary Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

individual blade pitch control
compound rotor vehicle
rotorcraft
vibration reduction
XH-59
lift-offset coaxial rotor

File:

Download Thesis_Beyer_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Karli, Geoffrey

Title:

Development and Testing of a Full Scale eVTOL Rotor Test Stand

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL
icing
rotorcraft
helicopter
wind tunnel
experimental
AERTS

File:

Download Karli_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member