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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

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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

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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

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Author:: Santarelli, David
Title:: An Energy Harvesting Device for Powering Rotor Load Monitoring Sensors
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Energy Harvesting
Rotorcraft
Loads Monitoring
File:: Download THESIS_Santarelli.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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Author:: Corl, Jonas Daniel
Title:: A COMPARISON OF HELICOPTER ACTIVE ROTOR GUST REJECTION AND VIBRATION ALLEVIATION METHODS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: helicopter
swashplate
active rotor
File:: Download JonasCorlMSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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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

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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

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Author:: Li, Suyi
Title:: A Variable Transverse Stiffness Structure using Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite (F2MC)
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Fluidic flexible matrix composite
honeycomb structures
sandwich beam
variable stiffness
File:: Download Master_Thesis_Suyi_Li.pdf
Committee Members:: Kon Well Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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