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Author:

Williams, Krystaufeux Dormas

Title:

Spatially Resolved, In-situ Monitoring of Crack Growth via the Coupling Current in Aluminum Alloy 5083

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

coupling current
stress corrosion cracking
aluminum alloy 5083
scanning vibrating probe
electrochemistry

File:

Download K_Williams_Dissertation_Final_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Digby D Macdonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prof Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Yongjie

Title:

DESIGN OF ADVANCED W-BASED AND FE-BASED ALLOYS VIA COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF CRYSTALLINE DEFECTS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

W-based alloys; Fe-based alloys; Crystalline defects; Mechanical properties; Thermodynamic; First-principles calculations;

File:

Download Yong-Jie_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member
Laszlo J. Kecskes, Special Member
Kristopher A. Darling, Special Member

Author:

Bobbio, Lourdes Del

Title:

Toward the study of additively manufactured functionally graded materials: Experimental analysis of microstructure, phase composition, and mechanical properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

functionally graded materials
additive manufacturing
thermodynamic calculations
CALPHD
titanium
stainless steel
invar

File:

Download Lourdes_Bobbio_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member

Author:

Ross, Austin Joseph

Title:

A THERMODYNAMICS BASED GUIDE TO ADDING HF TO A NI-SUPERALLOY TO IMPROVE OXIDATION RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Oxidation
Superalloys
Bond-coat
HfO2
Hafnium
external scale
TGO

File:

Download Austin-Dissertation-Final-v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Zhuqing

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF MULTIAXIAL PLASTICITY BEHAVIOR OF 304L AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 304L PRODUCED BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing;
Austenitic stainless steel
Martensitic transformation
Austenitic stainless steel
Martensitic transformation
Multiaxial stress state
Constitutive modeling

File:

Download ZhuqingWangThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Kuldeep

Title:

ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF NICKEL ALLOYS IN SULFATE-CONTAINING MOLTEN SALTS AT 700 °C

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nickel alloys
Hot corrosion
Molten salts
Electrochemical corrosion measurements
Passivity
High temperature corrosion
Nickel-aluminum
Chromium addition in nickel alloys
Sulfate reduction
Potentiodynamic polarizations
LiCl-KCl-Na2SO4

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Kuldeep_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Barbara Shaw, Outside Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member

Author:

Alat, Ece

Title:

CERAMIC COATINGS FOR NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING TO ENHANCE ACCIDENT TOLERANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accident tolerant fuel
corrosion resistance
oxidation resistance
ceramic coatings
nuclear fuel cladding
titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN)
titanium nitride (TiN)
cathodic arc physical vapor deposition
substrate bias
cathode composition
titanium bond coating
substrate surface preparation method
substrate surface roughness
nitrogen partial pressure
coating deposition time
scratch testing
neutronic analysis
multilayer ceramic coatings
air oxidation
supercritical water testing (SCW)
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Raman spectroscopy
energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
autoclave testing

File:

Download Ece_Alat_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Weitzner, Stephen E

Title:

Quantum–Continuum Modeling of Electrodeposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Density functional theory
DFT
Solvation
Quantum-Continuum
Interface
Electrodeposition
Underpotential deposition
Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Monte Carlo
Implicit solvent
Multiscale
Alloy
Electrode
Catalysis
Electrocatalysis
UPD
Cluster expansion

File:

Download Stephen_Weitzner_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Colby, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Michael Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, Nathan Douglas

Title:

Determination of Fundamental Thermodynamic Properties of Alkali/Alkaline-Earth Elements in Liquid Metals for Recovery from Molten Salt Solutions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemical Separations
Liquid Metals
Alkali/Alkaline-Earths
Sr-Bi
Sr-Sb
Sr-Sn
Electromotive Force Method

File:

Download Nathan_D_Smith--Dissertation--FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Hongyeun

Title:

THERMODYNAMIC MODELING AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES MODELING OF LONG PERIODIC STACKING ORDERED (LPSO) PHASES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

LPSO
Hardness model
Hall-Petch

File:

Download Hongyeun-Thesis-V11.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member