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Start Over Year 2014 Committee Member George A Lesieutre

1. Optimal Persistent Monitoring Using Coordinated Soaring

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Author:
Makovkin, Dmitriy
Title:
Optimal Persistent Monitoring Using Coordinated Soaring
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Persistent
monitoring
surveillance
thermalling
thermal
glider
soaring
MacCready
optimal
cruise
airspeed
aggregate
departure
File:
Download Dmitriy_Makovkin_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

3. Reduced order modeling, statistical analysis and system identification for a bladed rotor with geometric mistuning

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Author:
Vishwakarma, Vinod
Title:
Reduced order modeling, statistical analysis and system identification for a bladed rotor with geometric mistuning
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
turbine
mistuning
system identification
reduced order modeling
force response
random permutation
monte carlo
File:
Download thesis_vinod.pdf
Committee Members:
Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

4. Optimized Design and Structural Mechanics of a Single-piece Composite Helicopter Driveshaft

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Author:
Henry, Todd Carl
Title:
Optimized Design and Structural Mechanics of a Single-piece Composite Helicopter Driveshaft
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Flexible Matrix Composites
Optimization
Helicopter Driveshaft
Filament Winding
File:
Download 20140716_Henry_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Charles E Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

5. Modeling, Design, and Experimental Testing of Integrated Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Structures

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Open Access
Author:
Zhu, Bin
Title:
Modeling, Design, and Experimental Testing of Integrated Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Structures
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Vibration Control
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite
Passive Vibration Suppression
Harmonic Resonance
Damping Treatment
File:
Download Bin_Zhu_PhD_Thesis__June_1_2014_.pdf
Committee Members:
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Special Member

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

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Open Access
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

8. Nonlinear Active Vibration Based Damage Detection and Localization

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Open Access
Author:
Long, Justin Allan
Title:
Nonlinear Active Vibration Based Damage Detection and Localization
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
nonlinear
vibration
damage
detection
structural
health
monitoring
automation
airframe
rotorcraft
localization
File:
Download JustinLong_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

9. Development and Piloted Simulation Testing of Advanced Response Types for Ship-based Rotorcraft

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Author:
Soneson, Gregory Lorentz
Title:
Development and Piloted Simulation Testing of Advanced Response Types for Ship-based Rotorcraft
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Helicopter
Rotorcraft
Controls
Simulation
Handling Qualities
Shipboard
Response Types
Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion
File:
Download Soneson-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack W Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

10. Vibration energy harvesting from rotorcraft drive systems using thermoelectric conversion of heat generated by mechanical damping

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Author:
Mahmood, Raheel Sheikh
Title:
Vibration energy harvesting from rotorcraft drive systems using thermoelectric conversion of heat generated by mechanical damping
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
energy harvesting
vibration
rotorcraft
File:
Download RaheelMahmood_MSThesis_Dec2014.pdf
Committee Members:
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor