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Author:

Pitt, Jonathan S

Title:

A Brittle Damage Model in Thermoelastodynamics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Finite Element Method
Fracture
Continuum Damage Mechanics

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Lawrence Friedman, Committee Member

Author:

Aliaari, Mohammad

Title:

Development of Seismic Infill Wall Isolator Subframe (SIWIS) System

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear Analysis
Finite Element Method
Seismic Response
Masonry Walls
Infill Walls
Infilled Frames
Experimental Test

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Kevin Parfitt, Committee Member
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member

Author:

Sharafbayani, Mohammadreza

Title:

Evaluation of bracing systems in horizontally curved steel I-girder bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Plate Girder Bridge
Curved Bridge
Bracing System
Constructability
Service
Finite Element Method

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel G Linzell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey A Laman, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jibum

Title:

Optimization-based Meshing Techniques for Mesh Quality Improvement and Deformation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mesh Optimization
Mesh Untangling
Mesh Deformation
Finite Element Method

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Ashbach, Jason Andrew

Title:

Optical Frequency Selective Surface Design Using a GPU Accelerated Finite Element Boundary Integral Method

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Electromagnetics
Finite Element Method
GPGPU
General Purpose Computing
Frequency Selective Surfaces

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Henry Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

Author:

Nama, Nitesh

Title:

MICROACOUSTOFLUIDICS: AN ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Method
Acoustofluidics
Surface Acoustic Wave
Finite Element Method
Immersed Finite Element Method
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Acoustic Streaming
Acoustic radiation Force

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tony Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Pitt, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Peter Butler, Outside Member

Author:

Jones, Justin Adam

Title:

COMPLIANT MEDICAL TOOL DESIGN FOR SOFT TISSUE CUTTING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Compliant Mechanism
Soft Tissue Cutting
Needle Design
Finite Element Method

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Z. Moore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kauffman, Justin A

Title:

An Overset Mesh Framework for the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Overset Mesh Methods
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin
HDG
Finite Element Method
Pseudo-compressibility
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian
Navier-Stokes
Elasticity

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan S Pitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
James Joseph Brannick, Outside Member
Scott Miller, Special Member

Author:

Patki, Priyanka Abhay

Title:

Mixture theory based poroelasticity for biopolymer degradation and fluid transport in brain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Method
Poroelasticity
Mixture theory
Fluid-structure interactions

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Outside Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ganeshan, Karthik

Title:

Modeling and understanding surface/electrolyte interactions in MXene supercapacitors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Energy storage
Supercapacitors
ReaxFF
Atomic-scale simulations
Finite Element Method
Boltzmann Transport Equation
Rarefied flow
MXene
Birnessite
Nuclear Quantum Effects
Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics

File:

Download Dissertation_v1.4.14.pdf

Committee Members:

Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Major Field Member
Donghai Wang, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
David Williams, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Adri van Duin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor