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Author:: Howard, Anna Kathleen Tyler
Title:: The Aeromechanical Stability of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: full-span
whirl flutter
semi-span
civil tiltrotor
aeromechanical stability
rotorcraft
helicopter
pitch-lag coupling
ground resonance
pitch-flap coupling
air resonance
aeroelastic couplings
stability
tiltrotor
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Akturk, Ali
Title:: DUCTED FAN INLET/EXIT AND ROTOR TIP FLOW IMPROVEMENTS FOR VERTICAL LIFT SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Ducted fan
Inlet flow distortion
Tip leakage
Tip leakage mitigation
Double ducted fan
Pressure side platform
Fan rotor tip loss
Tip treatment
File:: Download Ali_Akturk-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member

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Author:: Atli Veltin, Bilim
Title:: EFFECT OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS ON THE IN-PLANE CRUSHING BEHAVIOR OF HONEYCOMBS AND HONEYCOMBS WITH FACESHEETS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: honeycomb crushing
energy absorption
cellular honeycombs
File:: Download Thesis_Bilim.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan S Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Lee, Dooyong
Title:: Simulation and Control of a Helicopter Operating in a Ship Airwake
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: helicopter simulation
stochastic airwake
pilot model
validation
SAS optimization
File:: Download DooyongLee_thesis_etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Semperlotti, Fabio
Title:: STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION VIA NONLINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURAL INTENSITY METHODS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Structural Surface Intensity
Structural Intensity
model free
baseline free
damage localization
HHRS
subharmonics
superharmonics
higher order harmonics
Nonlinear Structural Surface Intensity
Nonlinear Structural Intensity
File:: Download THESIS_FS_finalrev_3_combined.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward C Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

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Author:: Kang, Hao
Title:: ROTOR BLADE LAG DAMPING USING EMBEDDED CHORDWISE ABSORBERS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: ROTOR
BLADE
DAMPING
ABSORBER
AEROMECHANICAL STABILITY
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Keller, Jonathan Allen
Title:: Analysis and Control of the Transient Aeroelastic Response of Rotors During Shipboard Engagement and Disengagement Operations
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: helicopters
blade strike
H-46 aircraft
shipboard
aeroelasticity
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member

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Author:: Austruy, Julien
Title:: ROTOR HUB VIBRATION AND BLADE LOADS REDUCTION, AND ENERGY HARVESTING VIA EMBEDDED RADIAL OSCILLATOR
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: vibration control
rotorcraft
energy harvesting
File:: Download Dissertation_JulienAustruy_Dec2011.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

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