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Author:

Lescoe, Ryan

Title:

Improvement of Soil Modeling in a Tire-Soil Interaction Using Finite Element Analysis and Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

smoothed
smooth particle hydrodynamics
FEA
finite element analysis
tire-soil interaction
soil modeling
SPH
PAM-Crash
PAM-Shock
pneumatic tire
rigid tire

File:

Download Ryan-Lescoe_MS-Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin L Koudela, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Qirong

Title:

FORMATION OF DISK GALAXIES IN ΛCDM USING PARTICLE-BASED HYDRODYNAMICS

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

galaxy formation
disk galaxy
SPH
particle-based hydrodynamics

File:

Download Zhu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuexing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuexing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Mészáros, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurðsson, Committee Member
Sarah Shandera, Outside Member
William N. Brandt, Committee Member

Author:

James, Robin

Title:

PROGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED DAMAGE IN AEROSPACE COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND ITS DETECTION STRATEGY

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFRP
GFRP
Microwave NDT
Impact Damage
SPH
BEASY
BVID
Galvanic Corrosion
Aluminum Hydroxide
Loaded Waveguide Technique
Millimeter-wave
X-Band
Q-Band

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Robin_James_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zilong

Title:

DYNAMICS OF COUPLED FLOW-OBJECT-SEDIMENT SYSTEMS WITH SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH) SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fluid-object-sediment interaction
multi-phase
SPH
visco-elastoplastic model

File:

Download ZilongLi-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheikh, Bahman

Title:

The Behavior of a Granular Flow from Collapsing, to Spreading and Sliding Down a Frictional Incline

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
Soil-structure interaction
frictional Boundary condition
Granular material
Granular flow
Impact force
Landslide
Landslide runout
High performance computing
Statistics
SPH
LBM
Drag force

File:

Download Dissertation_BahmanSheikh_AfterDefense4.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Major Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair