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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

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

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

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

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:

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

Author:

Shan, Ying

Title:

Flexible Matrix Composites: Dynamic Characterization, Modeling, and Potential for Driveshaft Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

self heating
damping
driveshaft
composites
flexible matrix
thermomechanical

File:

Download ShanThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Roy, Saswati

Title:

Numerical simulation using the generalized immersed finite element method: An application to hydrocephalus

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

fluid-structure interaction
immersed finite element method
hydrocephalus
computational biomechanics

File:

Download Dissertation_Saswati_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Corina Stefania Drapaca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Luca Heltai, Special Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Special Member
Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Roy, Arjun

Title:

Failure-time statistics of a coupled-field damage evolution model via temporal averaging

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

fatigue
continuum damage mechanics
method of averaging
extreme value statistics
failure-time statistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Paul Cusumano, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member

Author:

Sheldon, Jason Paul

Title:

A comparison of fluid-structure interaction coupling algorithms using the finite element method

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

fluid-structure interaction
coupling
finite element
algorithms
monolithic
partitioned

File:

Download JasonSheldon-MastersDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan S Pitt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesco Costanzo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Michaleris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor