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Author:

Searfass, Clifford

Title:

FABRICATION AND TESTING OF PIEZOELECTRIC BISMUTH TITANATE FOR USE AS A HIGH TEMEPRATURE ULTRASONIC

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Bismuth titanate
sol-gel
microwave sintering
high temperature

File:

Download SearfassMastersThesis2008Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Srinivasan, Charan

Title:

Hybrid Strategies for Nanolithography and Chemical Patterning

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Lithography
Chemical Patterning
Self-Assembly

File:

Download CSrinivasanPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne M Andrews, Committee Member
Jun Huang, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lee, Chong Myoung

Title:

Elastic Waves in Bounded Structures with an Arbitrary Cross-Section

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasonic
arbtrary corss section
guided wave
rail inspection

File:

Download lee_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Eduard E Ventsel, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Sunil K Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Parks, David Austin

Title:

Development of a Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Array Sensor for Nuclear Reactor Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasonic
nuclear
piezoelectric
radiation damage

File:

Download Parks_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Judith Todd, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Fei

Title:

Optics of Slanted Chiral Sculptured Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Sculptured Thin Films
Chirality
Circular Bragg Phenomenon
Defect Mode
Dipole
Beam Shift
Coupled Wave Theory
Optical filter
Optical Sensor
Tunable Laser

File:

Download PhDthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Yan, Fei

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVE PHASED ARRAY FOR ISOTROPIC AND ANISOTROPIC PLATES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

nondestructive evaluation
anisotropic composite plates
isotropic plates
beam steering
phased array
ultrasonic guided wave
structural health monitoring

File:

Download ThesisFinalRevised.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member

Author:

Aggarwal, Gaurav

Title:

Development of Self-Lubricating Coatings via Cold Spray Process: Feedstock Formulation and Deformation Modeling

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Cold Spray
Coatings
Modeling

File:

Download gAggarwal-PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ivica Smid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member

Author:

Gao, Huidong

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVE MECHANICS FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

FEM
structural health monitoring
nondestructive evaluation
composite material
guided wave
ultrasonics
SAFE
global matrix method
normal mode expansion

File:

Download Huidong_Gao_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Yuan, Hongyan

Title:

A SOLVENT-FREE COARSE-GRAINED MODEL FOR BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMIMETIC FLUID MEMBRANES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

lipid bilayer
fluid membranes
bending rigidity
coarse-grained
solvent-free
membrane models
molecular dynamics simulations
anisotropic interparticle interaction
liquid crystal

File:

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Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Gulseren, Ibrahim

Title:

ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYSTAL DISPERSIONS AND FROZEN FOODS

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

scattering theory
ultrasonic attenuation
ultrasonic velocity
frozen foods
Low-intensity ultrasound
emulsions
surface melting

File:

Download THESIS_-_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

John Neil Coupland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Member
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Van Velsor, Jason Kenneth

Title:

Circumferential Guided Waves in Elastic and Viscoelastic Multilayered Annuli

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

pipe inspection
ultrsound
circumferential guided waves
dispersion curves
viscoelastic coatings

File:

Download Van_Velsor_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Ghassan Chehab, Committee Member

Author:

Palacios, Jose Luis

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Ultrasonic De-Icing System for Helicopter Rotor Blades

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

dispersion curves
icing rotor blades
ice protection
anti-icing
de-icing
ultrasound
wave structure
high power ultrasound

File:

Download Palacios_PhD_Thesis_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward A Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Koduru, Jaya Prakash

Title:

Ultrasonic guided wave phased arrays for defect detection in plate like structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

piezocomposites
annular arrays
phased arrays
guided waves

File:

Download jayPhDthesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Shi, Jinjie

Title:

BIOFUNCTIONALIZED NANO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL-SYSTEMS (BIO-NEMS): ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS—APPLYING ACOUSTICS IN MICROFLUIDICS AND ACTIVE PLASMONICS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustic tweezers
microfluidics
plasmonics
BioNEMS
surface acoustic wave

File:

Download Dissertation_Jinjie_Shi_ESM_August_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Jie

Title:

Optimization of Matching Layer Design for Medical Ultrasonic Transducer

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Medical Ultrasonic Transducer
Matching Layer

File:

Download ThesisZhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Wenwu Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member

Author:

Du, Jikai

Title:

Toward the Acoustic Evaluation of Low Modulus Thin Film Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustic microscopy
thin film
non-destructive evaluation

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Member

Author:

Mu, Jing

Title:

GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATION AND FOCUSING IN VISCOELASTIC MULTILAYERED HOLLOW CYLINDERS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided wave
hollow cylinder
focusing
viscoelastic

File:

Download Jing_Mu_PhD_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jaehoon

Title:

FATIGUE OF CORD-RUBBER COMPOSITES FOR TIRES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

LIFE PREDICTION
TIRE
CORD-RUBBER COMPOSITES
FATIGUE
ACOUSTIC EMISSION

File:

Download JHSONG.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Maurice Francis Amateau, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Hua, Jia

Title:

GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATION IN SINGLE AND DOUBLE LAYER HOLLOW CYLINDERS EMBEDDED IN INFINITE MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

dispersion
soil influence
pipe

File:

Download Jia_Hua_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Member

Author:

Boudreau, Kate Brown

Title:

A COMPARISON OF SPEED OF SOUND AND ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY PARAMETERS AS BIOFUEL CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

nonlinear parameter
nonlinear acoustics
speed of sound
biofuel
biodiesel

File:

Download Boudreau_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sarpatwari, Karthik

Title:

Toward Understanding the Electrical Properties of Metal/Semiconductor Schottky Contacts: the Effects of Barrier Inhomogeneities and Geometry in Bulk and Nanoscale Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Schottky barrier diodes
Nanowire

File:

Download Sarpatwari_Compre_backup.pdf

Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Lei

Title:

Development and Applications of Electrical Instrumented Indentation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

instrumented indentation
hardness
in-situ
contact area
electrical measurement

File:

Download Phdthesis_LeiFang.pdf

Committee Members:

Lawrence H Friedman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence H Friedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Li

Title:

GUIDED WAVE FOCUSING POTENTIAL IN HOLLOW CYLINDERS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

pipe inspecton
Guided wave
phased array
focusing

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Nicholas John Salamon, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Bohenick, Mark Adam

Title:

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW CHANNEL PHASED ARRAY FOR MATERIAL DEFECT IMAGING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

stepped
linear phased array
non-destructive evaluation
NDE
high temperature
defect detection
high pressure

File:

Download MABohenick_MastersThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guers, Manton John

Title:

IN-SITU MONITORING OF REMOTE SPECIMENS USING ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

structural health monitoring
remote monitoring
ultrasonic guided wave

File:

Download Manton_Guers_PhD_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

Author:

Pedrick, Michael Kevin

Title:

Layered Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Film Characterization and Sensor Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Radiation Detection
Finite Element Model
Love Waves
Surface Acoustic Wave

File:

Download M_K_Pedrick_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Rose, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Kropf, Matthew Mason

Title:

Multi Energy Optimized Processing: The use of high intensity ultrasonics and electromagnetic radiation for biofuel production processes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

microwaves
ultrasound
biofuels

File:

Download Kropf_Thesis_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

THEIN, MYO MIN

Title:

Biochips Employing Microelectrodes and Microtransducers for Characterization and Permeabilization of Cell Membrane at the Whole-Cell and Cellular Level

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

sonoporation
microelectrode
impedance
cell membrane
biochip
transducer

File:

Download MYO_THEIN-PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Verlinich, Matthew Michael

Title:

METHODS FOR THE DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COMBINED, MICROWAVE-ULTRASOUND BIODIESEL REACTORS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

microwave
ultrasound
biodiesel
design
reactor
sonochemistry

File:

Download Verlinich_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Puthillath, Padmakumar

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation across Waveguide Transitions Applied to Bonded Joint Inspection

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

skin-stringer joint
repair patch
Ultrasonic guided waves
adhesively bonded joints
waveguide transition

File:

Download Puthillath_PhD_Thesis_Final_29Sept2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Iyer, Shivprakash

Title:

Multi-Sensor Based Condition Assessment System for Buried Concrete Pipe

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Trenchless Technology
Condition Assessment
Multi-sensor
Ultrasonic NDT
Signal/Image Processing

File:

Download ShivIyer-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sunil K Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Hsien Chu, Committee Member
Mian C Wang, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Sz-Chin Steven

Title:

ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS: TUNABLE GRADIENT-INDEX PHONONIC CRYSTALS FOR ACOUSTIC WAVE MANIPULATION

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

phononic crystal
metamaterial
acoustic
tunable
gradient-index

File:

Download Sz-Chin_Steven_Lin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Stephen A Hambric, Committee Member

Author:

Maghsoudy-Louyeh, Sahar

Title:

NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOCOMPOSITES USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY - MEASUREMENT AND MODELING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

BIOCOMPOSITES
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
PLANT CELL WALL

File:

Download PhD_Thesis__Sahar_Louyeh.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Dr Tom Richard, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member

Author:

Subramanian, Shyamala

Title:

PATTERNED SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS FOR NANOSCALE LITHOGRAPHY AND THE CONTROL OF CATALYTICALLY PRODUCED ELECTROOSMOSIS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
lithography
catalytic motors
molecular rulers
lift-off resist
zeta potential

File:

Download ShyamalaS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Tongjun

Title:

CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE OF WEST ANTARCTICA FROM A SPARSE SEISMIC ARRAY

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

anisotropy
dispersion
surface wave
receiver function
shear wave splitting
antarctica

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Tongjun_Cho_Acoustics.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Verma, Vivek

Title:

Approaches to Hybrid Synthetic Devices

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Kinesin
Microtubules
Casein
Lithography
Hybrid synthetic devices
Cellulose

File:

Download Vivek_Verma_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Wei

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES AND WAVE SCATTERING IN VISCOELASTIC COATED HOLLOW CYLINDERS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustics
wave mechanics
guided wave
finite element analysis
phased array focusing
ultrasonics
viscoelasticity
wave scattering
nondestructive evaluation

File:

Download WeiLuo_Dissertation_V1.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Eduard S Ventsel, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Qi, Xue

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR DEFECT CHARACTERIZATION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Graphite epoxy laminate
Structural health monitoring
Finite element method
Guided waves
Composite
Ultrasonic NDE

File:

Download Xue_Qi_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Xi, Xiaoning

Title:

NANO-LEVEL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SURFACE PROPERTIES OF ENGINEERED SILICON WAFER

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

direct bonding
wetting properties
surface roughness
atomic force microscopy

File:

Download xiaoningthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Yun

Title:

Structural Tailoring and Actuation Studies for Low Power Ultrasonic De-icing of Aluminum and Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

aluminum
composite
de-icing
ultrasonic
Actuation
Tailoring

File:

Download Dissertation_Yun_Zhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Kannajosyula, Haraprasad

Title:

Novel array based methods for ultrasonic guided wave non destructive evaluation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Amplitude Control
Phased Arrays
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Non Destructive Evaluation

File:

Download Harathesisfinalsub.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Malinowski, Owen Michael

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation in Hollow Cylinders with Axial Periodicity

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic
Guided Waves
Elastic Waves
Periodic Media

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Rev10_FinalFinalSubmission_OwenMalinowski.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ivica Smid, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Getty, Shawn C

Title:

Sonotrode development for High Intensity Ultrasound and its effect on the Dynamic Flow of a Lyophobic Solution

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Sonotrode
Dynamic Flow
Piezoelectric
Lyophonic Emulsion

File:

Download GettyMasterThesisFinal2.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Searfass, Clifford

Title:

Characterization of bismuth titanate thick films fabricated using a spray-on technique for high temperature ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

high temperature ferroelectric
high temperature piezoelectric
high temperature ultrasound
high temperature transducer

File:

Download SearfassPhD2012FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Special Member

Author:

Liang, Yue

Title:

Ultrasonic Vibration Potential in Structural Health Monitoring for Plate-like Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

guided waves
ultrasonic vibration
structural health monitoring
phased array
finite element methods

File:

Download Yue_Liang_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Cyphers, Robert Lee

Title:

Research on Low Frequency Composite Transducers Fabricated Using a Sol-gel Spray-on Method

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

piezoelectric composites
ultrasound
sol-gel
low frequency

File:

Download CyphersThesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ali, Randall Azhar

Title:

Self-powered Thermoacoustic Sensor for In-pile Nuclear Reactor Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

acoustics
thermoacoustics
nuclear
temperature
sensor
in-pile
self-powered
reactor
telemetry
wireless
sensing
fuel-rod

File:

Download RALI_MS_Thesis_in_Acoustics_Final_Version_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Ernest Poese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choi, Gloria W

Title:

Creep-fatigue-ratcheting Behavior of Haynes 230 via Isothermal Multiaxial Experimentation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

creep-fatigue
ratcheting
cyclic softening
cyclic hardening
elevated temperature
Haynes 230
nickel based superalloy

File:

Download GWC_MS_Thesis_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ivica Smid, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Jeong Nyeon

Title:

multilayer transfer matrix characterization of complex materials with scanning acoustic microscopy

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

scanning acoustic microscopy
V(z) curve
surface acoustic wave
multilayer transfer matrix
reflectance function
adhesive condition

File:

Download JeongNyeonKim_MS_Thesis_Draft5.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ding, Xiaoyun

Title:

Acoustic tweezers: manipulating cells in microfluidics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

microfluidics
surface acoustic wave
cell manipulation
lab on a chip
acoustics

File:

Download Thesis_Xiaoyun_Ding_ESM.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Bostron, Jason Henry

Title:

Ultrasonic guided wave bondline evaluation of thick metallic structures with viscoelastic coatings and the demonstration of a novel mode sweep technique

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Guided waves
Phased array
Mode selection
Bond evaluation
Interface wave
Rayleigh wave

File:

Download Bostron-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Committee Member

Author:

Ahmed, Daniel

Title:

Acoustic Bubble: Controlled and Selective Micropropulsion and Chemical Waveform Generator

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Micropropulsion
Acoustics
bubble
Microfluidics
Chemical waveform
Tunable chemical gradient

File:

Download PHD_thesis_Dec_4th.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Special Member

Author:

Sahul, Raffi

Title:

Effect of Manganese Doping on PIN-PMN-PT Single Crystals for High Power Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Relaxor-PT ferroelectrics
Doped Ternary Single Crystal
High Power Applications
Engineered Domain Configurations

File:

Download RaffiSahul_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wenwu Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shujun Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Gardner, Michael D

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Nondestructive Evaluation Using Generalized Anisotropic Interface Waves

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic
Guided Wave
Nondestructive Evaluation
Anisotropic
Interface
Acoustics

File:

Download Michael_Gardner_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Characterization of Global And Localized Material Degradation in Plates and Cylinders Via Nonlinear Interaction of Ultrasonic Guided Waves

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Localized material degradation
nonlinear acoustic guided waves
mode interaction
material characterization.

File:

Download Yang_Liu_PhD_thesis_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Changjin

Title:

A Mechanistic Study on Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Drug Delivery

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Nanoparticle
cellular uptake
substrate stiffness
topography
thermodynamics
molecular dynamics
drug delivery
cancer

File:

Download CJH_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Cheng Dong, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xin

Title:

Characterization of Complex Materials with Elastic Discontinuities using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

scanning acoustic microscopy
non-distructive evaluation
V(z) curve

File:

Download Xin_Li_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Borigo, Cody J

Title:

A Novel Actuator Phasing Method for Ultrasonic De-icing of Aircraft Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

de-icing
aircraft
ultrasound
ultrasonic
vibration
ice protection
anti-icing
phasing
piezoelectric

File:

Download Borigo_PhD_Dissertation_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Nawaz, Ahmad Ahsan

Title:

Development Of An Acoustofluidic Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (facs)

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Microfluidic flow cytometry
3D focusing
cell sorter
hydrodynamic
aerosol free sorting.

File:

Download Thesis_-_A_A_Nawaz.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Orr, Alison D

Title:

A bond stiffness study of sol-gel spray-on transducers

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

sol-gel
transducers
non-destructive evaluation
LTspice
COMSOL
bismuth titanate
PZT
composite

File:

Download AlisonOrr_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sinding, Kyle Matthew

Title:

Spray-on Transducer Measurements For Thickness And corrosion Detection With Wireless Remote Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Spray-on Transducers
Wireless Monitoring
Ferroelectrics
Corrosion Monitoring
Signal Processing

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lanba, Asheesh

Title:

Niti-based Shape Memory Alloys: Relating Physical Deformation Mechanisms and the Wide Hysteresis

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Shape Memory Alloys
Martensitic Transformation
Hysteresis
Microstructure
Digital Image Correlation
NiTiNb

File:

Download AL_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member

Author:

Ledford, Kenneth R

Title:

Practical Sprayed-on Transducer Composites for High Temperature Applications

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Transducers
Ultrasound
Structural Health Monitoring
Non Destructive Evaluation
Ferroelectric Composites
Thick Films.

File:

Download KRL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guo, Feng

Title:

Acoustic tweezers: manipulating micro-objects with the power of sound

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustic tweezers
microfluidics
cell-cell interaction
cell printing
crystallography
disposable device.

File:

Download 20151201-thesis_final-update.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Yuchao

Title:

acoustofluidics in biomedical applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Acoustic wave
Microfluidics
Biomedical applications
Cell separation

File:

Download Thesis_Yuchao_Chen_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

Author:

Breon, Luke Justin

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation in Pipes with Elbows

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided Wave
Pipe
Elbow
Focusing
Complex Waveguides
Mode Tracing

File:

Download 1-Breon_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Acoustic Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Extracellular Vesicles
exosome
surface acoustic wave

File:

Download Rui_Zhang-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Reinhardt, Brian T

Title:

Nonlinear ultrasonic measurements in nuclear reactor environments

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Nonlinear Ultrasound
Contact Acoustic Nonlinear
Transducers
Neutron

File:

Download ReinhardtThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Kejie

Title:

3D acoustic tweezers-based bio-fabrication

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Acoustic Tweezers
bio-fabrication
spheroid
tissue engineering

File:

Download Master_thesis_Kejie_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kaynak, Murat

Title:

ACOUSTICALLY ACTUATED MICROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustic
in situ fabrication
microrotor
microswimmer
microstructure
flagella
biomimicry

File:

Download Murat_Kaynak_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

Author:

Waller, Matthew David

Title:

Defect Growth Detection Potential Using Guided Waves

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

SHM
NDT
NDE
structural health monitoring
guided waves
ultrasonics
crack detection

File:

Download MWaller_thesis_REV6.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Suprock, Andrew David

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HARSH ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation
Structural Health Monitoring
Ultrasonic Transducers
High Temperature
Harsh Environment
Radiation
Materials Optimization
NDE
SHM
Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectric Materials
Piezoelectric Crystal Structures

File:

Download Andy_Suprock_PSU_MS_ESM_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Po-Hsun

Title:

SHARP-EDGE-BASED ACOUSTOFLUIDICS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Acoustofluidics
Acoustic streaming
Micropump
Micromixer
Chemical gradient
Sputum liquefaction

File:

Download PHHuang-Dissertation_07252016.pdf

Committee Members:

TONY JUN HUANG, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Outside Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yao

Title:

Mechanics in erythrocytes and multicellular structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

red blood cell
deformability
coarse-grained modeling
traction force
multicellular structures
epithelium dispersion

File:

Download YaoZhang_dissertation_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

Author:

Hakoda, Christopher Nobuo

Title:

A Tool and a Process for Finding a Damage Feature for Guided Waves that is Independent of Temperature

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided Waves
SAFE method
PVDF
Temperature

File:

Download ChristopherHakoda-Thesis_Dec_07_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Choi, Gloria W

Title:

Towards a Robust Characterization of Material Damage Evolution via Linear and Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Wave Features

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

guided waves
nonlinear guided waves
frequency domain finite element
composite
metals
pipes
plates
semianalytical finite element method
nonlinear generation within finite width plates
nonlinear guided wave generation
third harmonic
second harmonic
higher harmonic
mutual interaction
self interaction
wave mixing
CFRP
kink
marcelling
out of plane ply waviness
fatigue
creep-fatigue ratcheting
microstructure
inhomogeneous damage

File:

Download GWC_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Janet Liang

Title:

Practical Ultrasonic Transducers for High-Temperature Applications using Bismuth Titanate and Ceramabind 830

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Non-destructive evaluation
Ultrasound
Structural Health Monitoring
Ferroelectric Composites
Piezoceramic
High temperature transducer
Transducer
Thick Films
Bismuth titanate
Ceramabind 830
Ultrasonic

File:

Download Xu_Janet-MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Stephen Thompson, Committee Member