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Author:

Tiwari, Chandrashekhar

Title:

INNOVATIVE ENERGY ABSORBING AND LOAD LIMITING DEVICES BASED ON COMPOSITE TUBES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

composite tubes
energy absorption
load limiting
extension-twist
stitch ripping
foam crushing

File:

Download Chandrashekhar_Tiwari_MS_Thesis_AUG09.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, 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:

WANG, SHENGLAN

Title:

EMBEDDED INERTIAL DAMPERS FOR CONTROL OF TRANSIENT ROTOR LOADS DURING RESONANCE CROSSING

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Inertial Damper
transient loads reduction

File:

Download Shenglan_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Choephel, Tenzin

Title:

Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Roughness as an Aerodynamic Flow Control Method

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic roughness
flow control
stall

File:

Download Tenzin_MS_thesis2010.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Schmidt, Walter Thomas

Title:

OPEN-CRACK DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS OF ALUMINUM PANELS USING STRUCTURAL INTENSITY-BASED TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace engineering
damage detection
structural intensity

File:

Download Walter_Schmidt_MS_Thesis_120109_.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kong, William

Title:

A Method of Selecting and Configuring Optimal energy Absorbing Cargo Restraint Systems to Improve Crashworthiness

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

multi-objective optimization
cargo restraints
crashworthiness
cargo dynamics
crash simulation
energy absorbers

File:

Download Willam_Kong_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Han, Yiqiang

Title:

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SCALING METHOD IN THE ROTOR BLADE ICE ACCRETION TEST

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter Icing
Scaling Method
Ice Accretion Test

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final_Manuscript_-_Aug_2_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Long, Justin Allan

Title:

Nonlinear Active Vibration Based Damage Detection and Localization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear
vibration
damage
detection
structural
health
monitoring
automation
airframe
rotorcraft
localization

File:

Download JustinLong_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Costa, Guillermo Jorge

Title:

Design, Fabrication, Test, and Evaluation of Small-scale Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter Wind Tunnel Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
rotorcraft
aeroelasticity
wind tunnel testing
whirl flutter

File:

Download Costa_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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