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Author:

Olympio, Kingnidé Raymond

Title:

Compliant Load-Bearing Skins and Structures for Morphing Aircraft Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

multiobjective optimization
topology optimization
morphing skin
honeycomb
hybrid multiobjective genetic algorithm

File:

Download Olympio-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Fabrizio Scarpa, Committee Member

Author:

Bharti, Smita

Title:

Optimal Structural Design of a Morphing Aircraft Wing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Aircraft wing morphing
topology optimization
non-linear Finite Element Analysis
Genetic Algorithm
Cellular Mechanism
Cable Actuation

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
H J Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Vipul Vijay

Title:

Design, Analysis, and Applications of Cellular Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Contact-aided compliant mechanisms
topology optimization
meso-scaled structures
morphing aircraft skin
stress relief

File:

Download Vipul_Mehta_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member