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Author:

Ramrakhyani, Deepak Shyamlal

Title:

Morphing Aricraft Structures using Tendon Actuated Compliant Cellular Truss

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Morphing structures
active structures
shape change
compliant joint
bird wing

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member

Author:

Thurier, Pierre F

Title:

A Two-material Topology Optimization Method for the Design of a Passive Thermal Control Interface

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Topology optimization
Thermo-mechanical
Thermal control
contact
compliant mechanisms
two-material
design

File:

Download thesis_PT.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Goldschmidt, Margalit Zipora

Title:

Design, Control, and Acoustics of a Marine Hydrokinetic Cycloturbine Vehicle

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

acoustics
marine hydrokinetic
cycloturbine
control
nonlinear
dynamics

File:

Download MargalitZGoldschmidtThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Outside Member
Michael Lester Jonson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair