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Author:: Evans, Brian
Title:: Nozzle Erosion Characterization and Minimization for High-Pressure Rocket Motor Applications
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Carbon/Carbon Composites
Erosion Mitigation
Solid Propellant
Nozzle Erosion
Graphite
Rocket Motor Simulator
File:: Download BE_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

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Author:: Randow, Charles Louis
Title:: A Directed Continuum Model of a Columnar Thin Film
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Cosserat
micromorphic
File:: Download Randow-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary L Gray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member

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Author:: Kumar, Chandan
Title:: MODELING AND CONTROLLING NANAOSCALE SELF-ASSEMBLY OF EPITAXIAL QUANTUM DOTS
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Thermal Field Directed Self-Assembly
Multilayer
Spectral Analysis
Surface Diffusion
Stochastic
Self-assembly
Quantum Dot
Elastic Heterogeneity
File:: Download ChandanKumar-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Lawrence H Friedman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence H Friedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

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Author:: Won, Dong Jin
Title:: MOCVD GROWTH OF GALLIUM NITRIDE WITH INDIUM SURFACTANT
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: GaN
AlN
nitrides
MOCVD
Indium surfactant
epitaxy
heteroepitaxy
XRD
PL
AFM
Raman
File:: Download Dongjin-Won-dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member

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Author:: Kim, Eunhye
Title:: Investigation of conical bit rotation in full scale cutting tests
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Finite Element Analysis
Full scale cutting test
Rock fragmentation
Conical bit rotation
File:: Download Eunhye_Disser_Nov-19-10_EK-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jamal Rostami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member

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Author:: Pitt, Jonathan S
Title:: A Brittle Damage Model in Thermoelastodynamics
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Finite Element Method
Fracture
Continuum Damage Mechanics
File:: Download JonathanPitt-Thesis-PhD.pdf
Committee Members:: Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Lawrence Friedman, Committee Member

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Author:: Song, Jaehoon
Title:: FATIGUE OF CORD-RUBBER COMPOSITES FOR TIRES
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: LIFE PREDICTION
TIRE
CORD-RUBBER COMPOSITES
FATIGUE
ACOUSTIC EMISSION
File:: Download JHSONG.pdf
Committee Members:: Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Maurice Francis Amateau, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, 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:: Higley, Michael
Title:: Stochastic and Deterministic Processes in Fragmentation and Sedimentation
Graduate Program:: Mathematics
Keywords:: Galton board
fragment size
settling speed
File:: Download higley_final_draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member

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Author:: Andia, Pedro C.
Title:: Mechanical Properties of Particle Systems Using a Molecular Dynamics Approach Inspired by Continuum Homogenization
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: multi-scale materials modeling
molecular dynamics
continuum mechanics
homogenization theory
effective stress
effective strain
File:: Download PCA-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary L Gray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence H Friedman, Committee Member
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member

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