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Author:

Hirsh, Andrew

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Piezoelectric T-Beam Actuator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

T-Beam
Actuator
Piezoelectric

File:

Download Hirsh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hoskins, Andrew Howard

Title:

Development and Characterization of a Robotic Dynamic Activity Simulator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

cadaver walking simulation
dynamic gait simulation
foot and ankle biomechanics
robotics

File:

Download AHoskins_PhD_Diss_HiQ.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Sharkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Kankey, Andrew Thomas

Title:

A Method for Focusing Sound in Harbor Environments at Low Frequencies: Theory and Experiment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

acoustic array
harbor acoustics
underwater acoustics
sound focusing

File:

Download Kankey_Dissertation_11_19_08_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Hugo Koopmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
David Bradley, Committee Member
Kyle M Becker, Committee Member

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:

Desai, Amit

Title:

Size Effect on the Mechanical Properties in Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

experimental nanomechanical characterization
electromechanical coupling

File:

Download amitdesai_phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, 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:

Ayalew, Beshahwired

Title:

Nonlinear Control of Multi-Actuator Electrohydraulic Systems Based on Feedback Linearization with Application to Road Simulators

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

actuator interaction
sliding mode control
input-output linearization
feedback linearization
electrohydraulic acutator
road simulators

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moustafa El Gindy, Committee Member
Heath Hofmann, Committee Member
Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, 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:

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

Author:

Trivedi, Deepak

Title:

Modeling, Optimal Design, Shape Estimation and Workspace Analysis of Soft Robotic Manipulators

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

continuum mechanics
design optimization cosserat rod
soft robotic manipulators
pneumatic air muscles

File:

Download DeepakTrivediDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Hathaway, Eric L

Title:

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TECHNIQUES FOR TILTROTOR AEROELASTIC STABILITY AUGMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aeroelastic stability
whirl flutter
tiltrotor
active control
optimization

File:

Download hathaway_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Wang, Guanghui

Title:

SPEED SENSOR-LESS CONTROL OF INDUCTION MACHINE BASED ON CARRIER SIGNAL INJECTION AND SMOOTH-AIR-GAP INDUCTION MACHINE

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Induction machine
Speed Sensor-less
Control

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Heath Hofmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, 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:

DeSmidt, Hans A.

Title:

ROBUST-ADAPTIVE ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL OF ALLOY AND FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITE ROTORCRAFT DRIVELINES VIA MAGNETIC BEARINGS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Adaptive Control
Magnetic Bearings
Driveline Active Vibration Contol
Helicopter Driveline
Flexible Matrix Composite
Periodic Time-Varying System

File:

Download thesis_desmidt.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alfred Scott Lewis, Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Kommepalli, Hareesh Kumar Reddy

Title:

DESIGN, MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Tbeam
unimorph
piezoelectric actuators
uniflex
flextensional
MEMS

File:

Download Hareesh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member

Author:

Hailu, Haftay

Title:

DIMENSIONAL TRANFORMATION: A NOVEL METHOD FOR GAIN-SCHEDULING AND ROBUST CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robust control
gain-scheduling
dimensional transformation
dimensional analysis

File:

Download Hailu_PhD_Dissertation2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Mario Sznaier, Committee Member
Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member

Author:

YU, HONGBIAO

Title:

PIEZOELECTRIC NETWORKING FOR MODE DELOCALIZATION AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSION OF NEARLY PERIODIC STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

VIBRATION CONTROL
PERIODIC STRUCTURE
VIBRATION LOCALIZATION
PIEZOELECTRIC

File:

Download Yu_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Haiyu

Title:

Passive, Iterative, and Repetitive Control for Flexible Distributed Parameter Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Feedforward control
flexible distributed parameter systems
vibration control
BIBO stability

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member

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

Author:

Hill, Jeffrey Ray

Title:

High Precision Surface Control of Flexible Space Reflectors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Gossamer
control
En Masse Elimination
modeling

File:

Download Hill_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhou, Jing

Title:

Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation

File:

Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Cheong, Jongpil

Title:

DESIGN, FABRICATION, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A PIEZOELECTRIC FLEXTENSIONAL MICROACTUATOR

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Buckling
PZT
beam
flextensional
microactuator

File:

Download Ph.D._Thesis_Jongpil_Cheong_ME.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, 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:

Loverich, Jacob Joseph

Title:

Development of a new high specific power piezoelectric actuator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
actuator
active material
feed screw
motion accumulation

File:

Download Loverich.thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, 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

Author:

Smith, Kandler A.

Title:

Electrochemical Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion
battery
hybrid electric vehicle
model order reduction
diffusion systems
state of charge estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_KandlerSmith2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Ren, Kailiang

Title:

Approaches to Achieve Smarter Electroactive Materials and Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Polymer
Polymer Actuators
Energy Harvesting
Shape Memory Polymer
Self-healing.

File:

Download KailiangThesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Lijun

Title:

Vibration-Based Structural Damage Identification Enhancement via Piezoelectric Circuitry Network and Active Feedback Control

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Structural Health Monitoring
Structural Damage Detection
Vibration
Smart Structures
Piezoelectric Circuitry
Active Control

File:

Download Thesis-LijunJiang-2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Heath F Hofmann, Committee Member

Author:

Philen, Michael Keith

Title:

DIRECTIONAL DECOUPLING OF PIEZOELECTRIC SHEET ACTUATORS FOR HIGH-PRECISION SHAPE AND VIBRATION CONTROL OF PLATE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

adaptive mirror
shape control
vibration control
smart materials
directional decopuling
piezoceramics
plate

File:

Download PhilenThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Yasar, Murat

Title:

HYBRID SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supervisory control
discrete event systems
aircraft propulsion
c4isr

File:

Download MuratYasar_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Quintangeli, Michael Vincent

Title:

AN ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE FOR POWERING ROTOR LOAD MONITORING SENSORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

rotor
electromechanical
electromagnetic
pitch link
helicopter
energy harvesting
rod end
HUMS

File:

Download THESIS_Quintangeli.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Nan

Title:

Yaw-Control Enhancement for Buses by Active Front-Wheel Steering

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Bus
Heavy Vehicle
Yaw Control
Front-Wheel Steering

File:

Download Thesis_NanYu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Committee Member
John M Mason, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Sen, Nilanjan

Title:

Inviscid Unsteady Aerodynamic Model of Airfoils Moving Near Boundaries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamic model
Conformal mapping
Potential Method
Clap-and-fling

File:

Download Nilanjan_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kwon, Ou Jung

Title:

Probing Anode Degradation in Automotive Li-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thermal effect at low temperature
Li-ion battery
Electric vehicle
Rapid charge
Lithium deposition
Anode degradation

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_OuJung_Kwon_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Diglio, Paul Jonathan

Title:

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING OF ROLLED CYLINDRICAL PVDF ACTUATORS FOR BRAILLE DISPLAYS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

blocking force
Braille display
displacement
EAP
semi-automated manufacturing process
rolled actuators

File:

Download Paul_Diglio_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qiming Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Montanye, Pamela L.

Title:

Shipboard Helicopter Gust Response Alleviation Using Active Trailing Edge Flaps

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

helicopter
rotorcraft
trailing edge flap
active rotor
flight dynamics
gust
gust response
shipboard
dynamic interface

File:

Download PamMontanyeMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Anusonti-Inthra, Phuriwat

Title:

SEMI-ACTIVE CONTROL OF HELICOPTER VIBRATION USING CONTROLLABLE STIFFNESS AND DAMPING DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

controllable damper
controllable stiffness
semi-active control
helicopter vibration reduction

File:

Download Final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Qin

Title:

THE OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC APPLICATIONS OF POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE) BASED ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electro-optic effect
long-period grating
capacitors
poly(vinylidene fluoride)

File:

Download Qin_Chen-Dissertation_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Goldman, Robert W

Title:

Development of a Rollover-Warning Device for Road Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vehicle dynamics
fuzzy inference systems
fuzzy logic
neural networks
artificial neural networks
rollover
sensitivity analysis

File:

Download RWGoldman_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moustafa El Gindy, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Ageliki Elefteriadou, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Steven Joseph

Title:

MICROMACHINED SWITCHES AND CANTILEVER ACTUATORS BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT)

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
PZT
microfabrication
etching
cantilevers
xenon difluoride
ion beam etching
piezoelectric
actuators
unimorph
bimorph

File:

Download SJG-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Lapapong, Sittikorn

Title:

Vehicle Rollover Prediction for Banked Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Rollover Prediction
Vehicle Rollover
Vehicle Dynamics
Vehicle
Zero-Moment Point

File:

Download SittikornLapapong_PhDThesis_2010_11_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

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

Author:

Gottimukkala, Siva Sankara Varma

Title:

DESIGN OF CIRCULARLY TOWED CABLE-BODY SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CIRCULARLY TOWED CABLE-BODY SYSTEMS

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Miller, Simon W

Title:

Experimental Characterization of Textile Energy Absorbers Exposed to Environmental Conditionings

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

textile
energy absorber
load limiter
tear webbing
stitch ripping device
environmental conditioning
quasi static
high rate
crashworthy
restraint

File:

Download Simon_W_Miller_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Levard, Thomas

Title:

CORE-FREE ROLLED ACTUATORS FOR BRAILLE DISPLAYS USING ELECTROSTRICTIVE P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) TERPOLYMER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

rolled actuator
ElectroActive Polymer
Braille display

File:

Download Thesis_-_Thomas_Levard.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qiming Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wu, Tian-Yau

Title:

ACTIVE CONTROL OF STRUCTURAL VIBRATION AND ACOUSTIC RADIATION VIA LEFT AND RIGHT EIGENVECTOR ASSIGNMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Active Control
Structural Vibration
Acoustic Radiation
Piezoelectric Material
Modal Confinement
Eigenvector Assignment
Disturbance Rejection
Modal Radiation Reduction.

File:

Download Wu-PhD-Thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Heath Hofmann, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Vipul Vijay

Title:

Design, Analysis, and Applications of Cellular Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Contact-aided compliant mechanisms
topology optimization
meso-scaled structures
morphing aircraft skin
stress relief

File:

Download Vipul_Mehta_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Weifeng

Title:

FUNDAMENTAL MODELING THE PERFORMANCE AND DEGRADATION OF HEV LI-ION BATTERY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Li-ion battery
HEV
degradation
modeling

File:

Download WeifengFangDissertation0616.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Xiaofeng

Title:

Nonlinear Robust Control Design for a High-speed Supercavitating Vehicle

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear system
robust control
supercavitating vehicle
LPV

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Xiaofeng_Mao_after_defense.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Zheqian

Title:

DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROMACHINED PIEZOELECTRIC T-BEAM TRANSDUCERS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

multifunctional transducers
PZT
piezoelectric
MEMS

File:

Download DESIGN_FABRICATION_AND_CHARACTERIZATION_OF_MICROMACHINED_PIEZOELECTRIC_T-BEAM_TRANSDUCERS.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kurczewski, Nicolas Adam

Title:

Coupled Fluidic Vibration Isolators for Rotorcraft Pitch Link Loads Reduction

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vibration isolation
loads reduction
fluidic elements
fluidic system
pitch links
rotorcraft

File:

Download Kurczewski-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Robinson, Michael David

Title:

mechatronic devices for fabrication, testing, and implementation of rolled actuators in a computer controlled braille display

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Mechatronics
Electroactive Polymer Actuators
Braille Display

File:

Download Michael_Robinson_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Marr, Conor Matthew

Title:

Conceptualization, Modeling, and Characterization of a Cf Driven Multi-State Lead-lag Bypass Damper

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Damper
Fluidlastic
Hydraulic
CFD
Modeling
Multi-State
Bypass
Passive Damping
Lead-Lag Damper
Ground Resonance

File:

Download CMarrPhDThesis2012FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

Author:

Ferone, Christopher Anthony

Title:

Nondestructive Forensic Pathology Of Lead-acid Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

VLRA
Sulphation
Water loss
BMS

File:

Download ChrisFeroneMastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mateti, Kiron

Title:

Flapping Wing Mechanisms for Pico Air Vehicles Using Piezoelectric Actuators

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
compliant mechanisms
piezoelectric actuators
flapping wing air vehicles
biologically inspired robotics

File:

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Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Ahn, Young Tae

Title:

Attitude Dynamics and Control of a Spacecraft Using Shifting Mass Distribution

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

spacecraft attitude dynamics
attitude control
combinatorial optimization theory

File:

Download youngtaeahn_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Bae, Eui Sung

Title:

The Reduction of Rotorcraft Power and Vibration Using Optimally Controlled Active Gurney Flap

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Performnce Improvement
vibration Reduction
Gurney flap
MiTEs
microflap
vibration
power

File:

Download ESBae_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Nayak, Sumanta Kumar

Title:

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANELS FOR BLAST LOAD MITIGATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

honeycomb
homogenization
blast
optimization
sandwich plates
virtual testing

File:

Download Sumanta-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ashok D Belegundu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Ataei-esfahani, Armin

Title:

Algorithms for Sum-of-Squares-Based Stability Analysis and Control Design of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear systems
randomized algorithms
robust control
uncertain systems
sum of squares method
ellipsoid method

File:

Download Armin_Ataei_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Malovrh, Brendon

Title:

Non-harmonic Root-pitch Individual-blade Control for the Reduction of Blade-vortex Interaction Noise in Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Blade-Vortex Interaction
BVI
noise
acoustic
helicopter

File:

Download MalovrhDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Kevin James Noonan, Special Member

Author:

Gou, Jun

Title:

modeling and analysis of lead-acid batteries with hybrid lead and carbon negative electrodes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
lead-acid batteries
carbon electrodes
hybrid electrodes
gassing
current partitioning

File:

Download Jun_Gou_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Yomchinda, Thanan

Title:

Real-time Path Planning and Autonomous Control for Helicopter Autorotation

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Autorotation
Path Planning
Helicopter Control
Dynamic Inversion
Trajectory Tracking

File:

Download ThananYomchindaDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

Author:

Shen, Zheng

Title:

Control-Oriented Modeling, State-Of-Charge, State-Of-Health, And Parameter Estimation Of Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery
Ritz Method
State-Of-Charge (SOC)
State-Of-Health (SOH)
Parameter Estimation
Solid Phase Diffusivity

File:

Download ZhengDissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Alexander Allen

Title:

Model-based Inclusion of Previewed Information for Lateral Vehicle State and Environment Estimation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION
PREVIEW ESTIMATION
STATE ESTIMATION
VEHICLE DYNAMICS
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

File:

Download Brown-Dissertation_Final_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Special Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Special Member

Author:

Mangiagli, Patrick Michael

Title:

Development of Laminated Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced Polyurethane Composites

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

aligned carbon nanofiber
CNF
nanocomposite
Halpin-Tsai
flexible laminates
bio-inspired
silane coupling agents

File:

Download Mangiagli_THESIS_Document_15_July_2013_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Melville, Christopher Martin

Title:

Design and Experimental Testing of a Battery Balancing System for Lead-acid Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lead-Acid
Batteries
Balancing
BMS
VRLA
Degradation Modes

File:

Download MelvilleMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinyu

Title:

Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric Materials

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electrocaloric effect
relaxor ferroelectric
polymer blends

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Xinyu_Li_Sep2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Prasad, Githin K

Title:

Control Oriented Modeling and State of Health Estimation for Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion batteries
modeling
state of health
estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_GithinPrasad.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Tummala, Yashwanth

Title:

Design and Optimization of Contact-aided Compliant Mechanisms with Nonlinear Stiffness

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Design optimization
compliant mechanisms
passive morphing
ornithopters
contact-aided compliant mechanisms

File:

Download Dissertation_Tummala_Final_Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Matthew B Parkinson, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Ying

Title:

modeling, real-time degradation identification, and remediation of lead-acid battries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
battery system management
degradation diagnosis
desulfation

File:

Download YingShi_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Ozdemir, Gurbuz Taha

Title:

In-flight Performance Optimization for Rotorcraft with Redundant Controls

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Redundant Controls
Optimization
Compound Helicopter
Flight Dynamics and Control
Performance

File:

Download Ozdemir_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Special Member

Author:

Xu, Tianren

Title:

development of high-energy cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

rechargeable batteries
lithium sulfur batteries
porous carbon
adsorption
nanostructures

File:

Download TianrenXu_dessertation_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Wei

Title:

Modeling of Large-format Li-ion Cell Performance and Safety

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Li-ion cell
battery
modeling
safety

File:

Download PHD_thesis__Wei_Zhao_.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Scarborough, Lloyd Harmon

Title:

Dynamics of Fluidic Devices with Applications to Rotor Pitch Links

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vibration isolation
pitch link loads
fluidic pitch link
rotorcraft vibration
helicopter vibration
rotorcraft performance

File:

Download Scarborough_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

Author:

Aglione, Daniel Lewis

Title:

Design, Modeling, and Simulation of Battery Pack Suspensions for Off-road Electric Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Suspension
modeling
vibration
shock
battery pack
vehicle

File:

Download Aglione_MastersThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kunte, Harshad Sitaram

Title:

Development Of Control Oriented Electrical And Thermal Models Of An Electric Transit Bus Battery System

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery Systems
Thermal
Transit Buses
Modeling
Control

File:

Download Thesis_MS_MechanicalEngineering_HarshadKunte_Summer2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vishwakarma, Vinod

Title:

Reduced order modeling, statistical analysis and system identification for a bladed rotor with geometric mistuning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbine
mistuning
system identification
reduced order modeling
force response
random permutation
monte carlo

File:

Download thesis_vinod.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Henry, Todd Carl

Title:

Optimized Design and Structural Mechanics of a Single-piece Composite Helicopter Driveshaft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Flexible Matrix Composites
Optimization
Helicopter Driveshaft
Filament Winding

File:

Download 20140716_Henry_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

Author:

Zhu, Bin

Title:

Modeling, Design, and Experimental Testing of Integrated Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Structures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Vibration Control
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite
Passive Vibration Suppression
Harmonic Resonance
Damping Treatment

File:

Download Bin_Zhu_PhD_Thesis__June_1_2014_.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Special Member

Author:

Vashisth, Aniruddh

Title:

Manufacturing and characterization of adaptive structures with fluidic flexible matrix composite tubes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

FMC
F2MC
adaptive
structure
tubes
morphing
steerable stiffness
polyurethane
bilayer
multilayer

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesco Costanzo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wu, Shan

Title:

High energy density, and low loss polymer dielectrics for energy storage capacitors and organic electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

energy storage
capacitor
polymer
dielectric
energy density
loss
dielectric breakdown

File:

Download ShanWu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Laftchiev, Emil Ivanov

Title:

Robust Dynamical Model-based Data Representations and Structuring of Time Series Data for In-sequence Localization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Data Dimension Reduction
Stochastic Programming
Multi-dimensional Data Representation
In-Sequence Localization

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Okita, Noriaki

Title:

Development of a novel foot slip sensor algorithm

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

slip sensor
gait cycle detection
walking robot
stick-slip
stochastic state estimation
anomaly detection

File:

Download Nori_Okita_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member

Author:

Pentzer, Jesse Lorenzo

Title:

Utilization of ICR Kinematics in Estimation, Control, and Energy-Aware Mission Planning for Skid-Steer Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ground robotics
robot performance
motion estimation
state estimation
skid-steer robotics
path planning

File:

Download Pentzer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Cao, Lei

Title:

Engineering Of Electrode Structure Of Automotive Li-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

lithium-ion battery
ionic conductivity
solid diffusion coefficient
LS-GITT
PVDF SBR/CMC binder
multifunctional powerpanel

File:

Download Lei_Cao_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Yi, Ran

Title:

Development Of High-energy Silicon-based Anode Materials For Lithium-ion Storage

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium-ion batteries
anodes
silicon
composite
hybrid capacitors

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_of_Ran_Yi.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Poramapojana, Poowanart

Title:

Experimental Investigation of Internal Short Circuits in Lithium-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Li-ion battery
Nail penetration test
Internal short circuits
Battery safety
Diagnostic nail

File:

Download Poramapojana_PhDThesis_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jun Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Babaei Pourkargar, Davood

Title:

Synthesis of advanced control structures for complex chemical processes using sensor networks

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Process control
Chemical processes
Distributed parameter systems
Model reduction
Chemical reactor
Feedback control

File:

Download DBP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Committee Member

Author:

Sarkar, Soumalya

Title:

Hierarchical Symbolic Perception in Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic Dynamics
Data Driven
Hierarchical approach
Multi-scale analysis
Combustion Instability
Fault detection

File:

Download Dissertation_Soumalya_Sarkar_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Tanim, Tanvir Reza

Title:

Lithium Ion Battery Modeling, Estimation, and Aging for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium Battery Modeling
Battery Management System
Battery State Estimation
Hybrid Electric Vehicles

File:

Download Tanim_Tanvir_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Bondoux, Alexandre Franck

Title:

Modeling, design and testing of a multi-cell periodic fluidic flexible matrix composite device

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

F2MC
vibrations
helicopters
acoustic
periodic

File:

Download Alexandre_Bondoux_-_MSc_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rothenberger, Michael J

Title:

Optimal Input Shaping for Fisher Identifiability of Control-Oriented Lithium-Ion Battery Models

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fisher identifiability optimization
battery parameter estimation
lithium-ion battery
optimal input shaping

File:

Download Rothenberger_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Member
Joel Robert Anstrom, Special Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Miura, Kentaro

Title:

Modeling, Design, and Experimental Validation of a Tailboom Vibration Absorber Using Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Tubes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fluidic flexible matrix composite
vibration control
helicopter tailboom
structural dynamics
design

File:

Download KMiura_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Andrew J

Title:

Energy Management and Battery Testing for the Analysis of a Diesel-electric Hybrid Locomotive Powertrain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hybrid
locomotive
powertrain
optimal control
energy management
battery
HIL
SIL
hardware-in-the-loop

File:

Download Wilson_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kambampati, Sandilya

Title:

Optimization of Composite Tiltrotor Wings with Extensions and Winglets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

optimization
tiltrotor
winglet
whirl flutter
composite material
wing extensions
aircraft design

File:

Download Sandilya_Kambampati_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Yue

Title:

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIA SYMBOLIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic time series analysis
Hidden Markov modeling
Pattern recognition
Finite-state Automaton
Information Fusion
Sensor Networks
Battery SOC estimation
Battery SOH estimation
Recursive Bayes Filter
Image processing

File:

Download YueLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Thorsen, Adam Thomas

Title:

A UNIFIED FLIGHT CONTROL METHODOLOGY FOR A COMPOUND ROTORCRAFT IN FUNDAMENTAL AND AEROBATIC MANEUVERING FLIGHT

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

compound
rotorcraft
aerobatic
maneuvers
unified control
flight control
redundant controls
flight path generation
trajectory optimization
energy management

File:

Download Thorsen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Jha, Devesh Kumar

Title:

Learning and Decision Optimization in Data-Driven Autonomous Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Autonomous Systems
Machine Learning
Markov Modeling
Combustion Instability
Decision Making
Motion Planning

File:

Download Devesh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Jan Severin Reimann, Outside Member
Abhishek Srivastav, Special Member

Author:

Roemer, Michael Richard

Title:

Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Statistical Classifiers for the Detection and Classification of Control Valve Blockages

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

neural network
fuzzy logic
statistical classifier
condition-based maintenance
cbm
support vector machines
discriminant analysis
k-nearest-neighbor
vibration
diagnostics
rotary valve
process control valve
control valve
blockage
valve blockage

File:

Download Roemer_ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor