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Author:

Lotfi Gaskarimahalle, Amir

Title:

VIBRATION CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS AND FLUIDIC FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Semi-active Control
Tuned Vibration Absorbers
Variable Stiffness Systems
Input Shaping
Vibration Control

File:

Download AmirLotfi-Dissertation_7.29.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Samuel, Benedict

Title:

Mechanical and Electrical Characterization of Glassy Carbon Nanofibers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

glassy carbon
MEMS mechanical testing
carbon nanofiber
carbon nanowire

File:

Download Thesis-BAS391-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aman Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member

Author:

Hudson, Christopher James

Title:

THE APPLICATION OF FEEDBACK CONTROL TO THE FORCE FREQUENCY SHIFTING TECHNIQUE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

MR damper
transmitted force
feedback control
force frequency shifting
structural excitation
force tracking

File:

Download FeedbackFFS_cjh.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Wesley Trethewey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
John Stephen Lamancusa, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Gi-Woo

Title:

DESIGN AND NONLINEAR FORCE CONTROL OF A POWER-BY-WIRE PIEZOELECTRIC-HYDRAULIC PUMP ACTUATOR FOR AUTOMOTIVE TRANSMISSIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric-Hydraulic Pump
Automotive Transmission
Nonlinear Force Control

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Kon Well Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Guo, Jianping

Title:

Three-Dimensional Wrapping of Stiff Elastic Belts around Rollers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

elastica
elastic belts
Helical wrapping

File:

Download Jianping_Guo.PDF

Committee Members:

Eric M Mockensturm, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member

Author:

Paik, Jinho

Title:

The Aeroelastic Stability Improvements of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors By Active and Passive Approaches

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

design optimization
whirl flutter
soft-inplane rotor
tiltrotor aircraft
feedback control

File:

Download Jinho-Paik-Dissertation-Aug09.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

John, Joby

Title:

Inter-Trial Dynamics In Goal-Oriented Tasks.

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Variability in human movement
Performance
Inter-Trial Dynamics
Goal Equivalent Manifolds
Shuffleboard Experiment

File:

Download JobyJohn-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Paul Cusumano, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Maxim Newell, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Gary L Gray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member