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Author:

Bapat, Chaitanya Jayant

Title:

ANISOTROPIC HEAT CONDUCTION EFFECTS IN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel cells
PEM
Anisotropy
two phase

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Serguei Lvov, Committee Member

Author:

Heverly II, David E.

Title:

Optimal Actuator Placement and Active Structure Design for Control of Helicopter Airframe Vibrations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
smart structures
active control
helicopter
vibrations
actuator placement
structural design
optimization

File:

Download dehthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Reutzel, Edward William

Title:

Deformation Analysis and Path Planning for Thermal Forming of Complex Shapes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

thermal forming
line heating
differential geometry
laser forming

File:

Download Reutzel-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Stephen M Copley, Committee Member
Richard Martukanitz, Committee Member

Author:

YU, HONGBIAO

Title:

PIEZOELECTRIC NETWORKING FOR MODE DELOCALIZATION AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSION OF NEARLY PERIODIC STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

VIBRATION CONTROL
PERIODIC STRUCTURE
VIBRATION LOCALIZATION
PIEZOELECTRIC

File:

Download Yu_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Jun

Title:

MODELING AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF WELDING DISTORTIONS AND RESIDUAL STRESSES IN LARGE AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Analysis
Parallel Computing
FETI-DP
Domain Decomposition
Distributed Computing
Partial Cholesky Re-factorization

File:

Download Thesis_JunSun.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jinseop

Title:

Modeling and Optimization of Welding Residual Stress

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Plasticity
Finite element
Sensitivity
Optimization
Modeling
Residual stress

File:

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Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jianjun

Title:

Material Property Identification of Polymer Thin Films under the Indentation Test

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer
constitutive equation
nanoindentation
material property
thin film

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Timothy C Ovaert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Donna M Conway Jr., Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Hargather, Michael John

Title:

Scaling, characterization, and application of gram-range explosive charges to blast testing of materials

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

schlieren
shadowgraph
TNT equivalence
laboratory-scale explosives
explosive
material blast testing

File:

Download mjhargather_thesis_final_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member

Author:

Philen, Michael Keith

Title:

DIRECTIONAL DECOUPLING OF PIEZOELECTRIC SHEET ACTUATORS FOR HIGH-PRECISION SHAPE AND VIBRATION CONTROL OF PLATE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

adaptive mirror
shape control
vibration control
smart materials
directional decopuling
piezoceramics
plate

File:

Download PhilenThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Biss, Matthew Michael

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF BLASTS FROM LABORATORY-SCALE COMPOSITE EXPLOSIVE CHARGES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Laboratory-scale
Booster charge
Composite explosive charges
Shadowgraph visualization
TNT equivalent

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Matthew_Michael_Biss.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Daniel Linzell, Committee Member
Michael J Hargather, Committee Member

Author:

Tsau, Shih-Horng

Title:

ANISOTROPIC H-ADAPTIVE (AH-ADAPTIVE) FINITE ELEMENT SCHEME FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MULTI-SCALE ANALYSES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonzeros in tangent matrix
finite element
AH-adaptive
condensation theory
algorithm
large structure
multi-scale
anisotropic h-adaptive
penalty method
Lagrange multiplier

File:

Download Defense.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member

Author:

Qin, Xiaoliang

Title:

THERMO-ELASTO-VISCO-PLASTIC MODELLING OF FRICTION STIR WELDING IN AN EULERIAN REFERENCE FRAME

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Coupled thermo-mechanical
Friction Stir Welding

File:

Download Qin-thesis-all.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member

Author:

Svingala, Forrest R

Title:

Laboratory-scale Blast Testing Of Polymers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

shock hugoniot
polymers
explosives
shock tube
gas gun
solids
shadowgraph
high-speed video
optical methods

File:

Download Svingala_PhD_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Mahdavi, Arash

Title:

Mechanics Of Low-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures: Atomistic, Continuum, And Multi-scale Approaches

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element
Nanomechanics
Carbon Nanotube
Multisclae
Nonlinear
Continuum Mechanics

File:

Download Thesis_Arash_Mahdavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric M Mockensturm, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Special Member

Author:

Nayak, Sumanta Kumar

Title:

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANELS FOR BLAST LOAD MITIGATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

honeycomb
homogenization
blast
optimization
sandwich plates
virtual testing

File:

Download Sumanta-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ashok D Belegundu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Deakyne, Theodore R

Title:

Study of the Relationship between Machine Compliance and Grinding Forces in Cylindrical Grinding

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

grinding force
grinding modelling
specific energy
machine compliance
time constant
Contact
grinding vibration
superabrasives

File:

Download TheodoreRSDeakyneDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Russell Marsh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member

Author:

Kriczky, Dennis Andrew

Title:

3D Spatial Reconstruction of Thermal Characteristics in Directed Energy Deposition through Optical Thermal Imaging

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

thermal metrics
thermal imaging
directed energy deposition
3D spatial reconstruction
Ti-6Al-4V

File:

Download DennisKriczkyThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward William Reutzel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Heigel, Jarred Christopher

Title:

Thermo-mechanical Model Development and Experimental Validation for Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing Processes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
laser cladding
distortion
convection
finite element analysis
residual stress
in situ measurement

File:

Download HeigelDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Special Member

Author:

Denlinger, Erik Robert

Title:

thermo-mechanical model development and experimental validation for metallic parts in additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Distortion
Residual stress
Ti-6Al-4V
Inconel
FEM
Powder-bed

File:

Download disertationERD.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Committee Member

Author:

Gouge, Michael Fielding

Title:

Advancement in Thermo-material Modeling of Direct Energy Deposition Processes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Laser Cladding
Finite Element Modeling
Inconel 625
Heat transfer
Material property prediction
Microstructure prediction

File:

Download disertationMFG.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member

Author:

Dunbar, Alexander Jay

Title:

Analysis of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process Through Experimental Measurement and Finite Element Modeling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Experimental design
powder bed
additive manufacturing
Ti-6Al-4V
Inconel

File:

Download dunbarThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jianyi

Title:

ANALYTICAL PROCESS MODELING AND NONLINEAR CONTROL OF MELT-POOL HEIGHT AND TEMPERATURE IN DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Modeling
Control
Additive Manufacturing
Directed Energy Deposition

File:

Download Jianyi_Li_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Ted Reutzel, Outside Member

Author:

Corbin, David Jeffrey

Title:

Experimental Design for Process Parameter Correlation to Dimensional Inaccuracies in Additive Manufacturing Processes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Distortion
Ti-6Al-4V
Inconel 718
Parameter Development
In situ measurements
Directed Energy Deposition

File:

Download DavidJCorbinThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Reutzel, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Committee Member
Allison Beese, Outside Member