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Author:

Parks, David Austin

Title:

Development of a Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Array Sensor for Nuclear Reactor Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasonic
nuclear
piezoelectric
radiation damage

File:

Download Parks_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Judith Todd, Committee Member

Author:

Kannajosyula, Haraprasad

Title:

Novel array based methods for ultrasonic guided wave non destructive evaluation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Amplitude Control
Phased Arrays
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Non Destructive Evaluation

File:

Download Harathesisfinalsub.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Faryad, Muhammad

Title:

Propagation and Excitation of Multiple Surface Waves

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

surface plasmon-polariton waves
Kretschmann
grating
solar cell
sculptured thin film
rugate filter

File:

Download 11v_Thesis_Faryad.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Special Member

Author:

Searfass, Clifford

Title:

Characterization of bismuth titanate thick films fabricated using a spray-on technique for high temperature ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

high temperature ferroelectric
high temperature piezoelectric
high temperature ultrasound
high temperature transducer

File:

Download SearfassPhD2012FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Special Member

Author:

Harris, Jason Thomas

Title:

Interface Characterization and Defect Evolution of Coated Samples Under Thermal and Pressure Transients

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

gun tube
coating
gun barrel
interface characterization
thermal and pressure transient
explicit
cohesive zone

File:

Download Jason_Harris_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Eliot Segall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ivica Smid, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Rob Carter, Special Member

Author:

Nassar, Abdalla Ramadan

Title:

Investigation of laser-sustained plasma and the role of plasma in carbon dioxide laser nitriding of titanium

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Laser-Sustained Plasma
LSP
Optical Discharge
Plasma
Nitriding
Laser Processing
Laser nitriding
Spectroscopy
CFD

File:

Download 1-Nassar_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen M Copley, Special Member
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Vladimir V Semak, Committee Member

Author:

Motyka, Michael

Title:

Effects of Microstructure and Oxidation State of Multi-valent Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for use in Infrared Microbolometers

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Vanadium oxide
thin films
spectroscopic ellipsometry
thin film deposition
magnetron sputtering

File:

Download MM-thesis-fulldraft-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nikolas Podraza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, 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:

Download ArjunRoy-Dissertation.pdf

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