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Author:

Santarelli, David

Title:

An Energy Harvesting Device for Powering Rotor Load Monitoring Sensors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Harvesting
Rotorcraft
Loads Monitoring

File:

Download THESIS_Santarelli.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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

Author:

Quintangeli, Michael Vincent

Title:

AN ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE FOR POWERING ROTOR LOAD MONITORING SENSORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

rotor
electromechanical
electromagnetic
pitch link
helicopter
energy harvesting
rod end
HUMS

File:

Download THESIS_Quintangeli.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Gleeson, Sarah Laree

Title:

Gender differences in leisure motivation, participation, and constraints for South African adolescents

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Leisure motivation
South Africa
Adolescents
Leisure
Leisure constraints

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda L Caldwell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Careen M Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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

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

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