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Author:

Ayalew, Beshahwired

Title:

Nonlinear Control of Multi-Actuator Electrohydraulic Systems Based on Feedback Linearization with Application to Road Simulators

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

actuator interaction
sliding mode control
input-output linearization
feedback linearization
electrohydraulic acutator
road simulators

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moustafa El Gindy, Committee Member
Heath Hofmann, Committee Member
Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Tolani, Devendra Kumar

Title:

INTEGRATED HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Anomaly detection
health management
prognosis
discrete event system
probabilistic robust control
damage mitigating control
life extending control

File:

Download Devendra_Tolani_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

DeSmidt, Hans A.

Title:

ROBUST-ADAPTIVE ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL OF ALLOY AND FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITE ROTORCRAFT DRIVELINES VIA MAGNETIC BEARINGS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Adaptive Control
Magnetic Bearings
Driveline Active Vibration Contol
Helicopter Driveline
Flexible Matrix Composite
Periodic Time-Varying System

File:

Download thesis_desmidt.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alfred Scott Lewis, Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Huan

Title:

A DETERMINISTIC-STATISTICAL MODEL FOR TRIBO-CONTACTS IN BOUNDARY LUBRICATION WITH LUBRICANT/SURFACE PHYSICOCHEMISTRY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Boundary Lubrication
Contact Mechanics
Physicochemistry
Statistical Surface Model
Frictional Modeling

File:

Download ZH_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Liming Chang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Richard Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Haiyu

Title:

Passive, Iterative, and Repetitive Control for Flexible Distributed Parameter Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Feedforward control
flexible distributed parameter systems
vibration control
BIBO stability

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member

Author:

Martin, Jay Dean

Title:

A Methodology for Evaluating System-Level Uncertainty in the Conceptual Design of Complex Multidisciplinary Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conceptual design
uncertainty assessment
sensitivity analysis
kriging models

File:

Download JayDMartin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Boyer, J Eric

Title:

Combustion Characteristics and Flame Structure of Nitromethane Liquid Monopropellant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

monopropellant
liquid propellant
nitromethane
combustion

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, 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:

Yang, Jun

Title:

Development of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques for External Cooling of an Advanced Reactor Vessel

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CHF
two-phase flow
microporous coating
boiling heat transfer enhancement techniques
downward facing boiling
nucleate boiling

File:

Download JunYangDST.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Dhushy Sathianathan, Committee Member
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Cheong, Jongpil

Title:

DESIGN, FABRICATION, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A PIEZOELECTRIC FLEXTENSIONAL MICROACTUATOR

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Buckling
PZT
beam
flextensional
microactuator

File:

Download Ph.D._Thesis_Jongpil_Cheong_ME.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member