Dissertations from 2017
A Multi-Scale Approach for Modeling Shock Ignition and Burn of Granular HMX, Pratap Thamanna Rao
Heat and Mass Transfer in a Cylindrical Heat Pipe with Idealized Porous Lining, Pramesh Regmi
Optimization of the Hot Embossing Parameters and Sintering Characterization for Alumina/Berea Sandstone Sintering, Justin F. Robbins
Novel Design and Synthesis of Nanostructured Electrode Materials for Advanced Lithium Ion Batteries, Zhiqiang Xie
Novel Design of Nanostructured Material for Advanced Energy Conversion And Storage Devices, Wangwang Xu
Thermomechanical Modeling of Polymerica Actuators, Qianxi Yang
Nonlinear Model-Based Control for Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation, Ruzhou Yang
Design and Validation of Novel Potential High Entropy Alloys, Boliang Zhang
Theses from 2016
Characterization of Thermoplastic Fusion Bonding of Microchannels using Pressure Assisted Boiling Point Control System, Kavya Dathathreya
The Design, Fabrication, and Validation of a Film Cooled Rotating Turbine Cascade with an Actively Cooled Shroud in a Closed Loop Wind Tunnel, Christopher Michael Drewes
Location and Allocation of Emergency Medical Services, Allison Marie Dupont
Fabrication And Characterization Of Thiol-Acrylate Based Polymer for Bone Tissue Engineering Application, Anoosha Forghani
Optimal Configuration of Inspection and Rework Stations in a Multistage Flexible Flowline, Md. Shahriar Jahan Hossain
Thermophysical and Thermochemical Property Measurement and Prediction of Liquid Metal Titanium Alloys with Applications in Additive Manufacturing, Jonathan Richard Raush
On the Degradation of Lubricating Grease, Asghar Rezasoltani
Weld Quality Classification from Sensory Signatures in Friction-Stir-Welding (FSW) Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Advanced Metaheuristic Techniques, James Devecmon Roberts
A Comparison Between Functional and Traditional Interface Displays in Support of Console Operator Performance and Workload, Sophie Lynn Schwartz
Design of Surface Texture for the Enhancement of Tribological Performance, Cong Shen
Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization For Fuzzy Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems, Po An Su
Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Composites, Yi Zhang
Dissertations from 2015
Degradation and Fatigue Involving Dissipated Processes, Md Liakat Ali
Chemical Structure and Dynamics in Laminar Flame Propagation, Mohsen Ayoobi
Exploration of Segmented Flow in Microchannels using the Volume of Fluid Method in ANSYS Fluent, Jace Michael Boudreaux
Physics and Applications of a PDMS Based Centrifugal Microfluidic System, Ziliang Cai
A Comparative Assessment of Ergonomic Risk Factors in University Personnel Using RULA and REBA Aiming to Study the Cause and Effect Relationship, Nabila Chowdhury
Challenges towards Structural Integrity and Performance Improvement of Welded Structures, Mohammad Washim Dewan
Experimental Study of a Cascade of Low Pressure Turbine Blades with Upstream Periodic Stator Wakes, Carlos Rene Gonzalez Rodriguez
An Analytic Solution of the Thermal Boundary Layer at the Leading Edge of a Heated Semi-Infinite Flat Plate under Forced Uniform Flow, Robert Jessee
On an Effective Submodeling Procedure for Stresses Determined with Finite Element Analysis, Ajay Ashok Kardak
Heat Transfer Study of Porous Media with a Temperature Jump Condition, Pravin Kumar
Study of Active Vibration Control using the Method of Receptances, Amit Maha
On the Role of Surface Roughness in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Tribological Components, Mohammad Masjedi
Development of a Three-Dimensional Bioprinter with Inline Light Activation for Bone Tissue Engineering, Colton Alexander McElheny
Radiation Heat Transfer In A Particulate Medium Using A Ray Tracing Method, Manish B. Patil
Effect of Appointment Schedules on the Operational Performance of a University Medical Clinic, Arunn Pisharody Vijayan
Modeling Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in Polygonal Microchannels, Sai Sashankh Rao
The Effects of Work Zone Configurations on Physiological and Subjective Workload, Mahmoud Shakouri Hassanabadi
Multiscale Modeling of Smart Materials under Static and Dynamic Thermo-mechanical Loading, Soodabeh Sharafi
Fabrication and Characterization of Miniaturized Components Based on Extruded Ceramic-Filled Polymer Blends, Khurshida Sharmin
On the Thermally Induced Failure of Rolling Element Bearings, Jafar Takabi
Heat Transfer and Film Cooling on a Gas Turbine Blade and Shroud, Onieluan Tamunobere
Numerical Studies of Liquid-Liquid Segmented Flows in Square Microchannels Using a Front-Tracking Algorithm, Eamonn Daire Walker
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Single DNA Nucleotides Transport Through Nanoslits, Kai Xia
Healing-on-Demand Polymer Composites Based on Shape Memory Polyurethane Fibers and Polymeric Artificial Muscles, Pengfei Zhang
Dissertations from 2014
Energy and Thermodynamically Based Approaches for Analysis of Damage in Contact Problems, Afshin Babaie Aghdam
A Parametric Investigation of a Novel, Modular, Gasketless, Microfluidic Interconnect Using Parallel Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Christopher Ramsey Brown
The Effects of Asymmetric Micro Ratchets on Pool Boiling Performance, Lance Austin Brumfield
Meso-Scale Analysis of Deformation Induced Heating in Granular Metalized Explosives by Piston Supported Waves, Sunada Srinath Nagamani Chakravarthy
Composition Control of Spinel Lithium Manganese Oxide for High Voltage, High Energy Lithium Ion Batteries, Hilary Eikhuemelo
Influence of Magnetic Fields on the Evaporation and Combustion of a Single Droplet, Domingo Elias
Minimization of transportation, installation and maintenance operations costs for offshore wind turbines, Tasnim Ibn Faiz
Age, Performance and Retention Interval Effects on Acceptance of a Consumer Health Information Technology System, Stephen Andrew Ford
Utilization of Carbon Nanofibers Grown on Glass Microballoons (NMBs) in Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices, Emmanuel Gikunoo
Tomographic imaging of combustion zones using tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), Avishek Guha
Hot corrosion behaviour of new candidates for thermal barrier coatings application in turbine simulated environments, Mohammad Hamed Habibi
Fabrication and Enhancement of Aluminum-Based Microchannel Devices, Paul Joseph Hymel
Analyses of Online Monitoring Signals for a GMAW Process Before and After Improvement, Aniruddha Joshi
Energy Dissipation and Entropy Generation During the Fatigue Degradation: Application to Health Monitoring of Composites, Ali Kahirdeh
Using eye-tracking to investigate strategy and performance of expert and novice control room operators, Christina Marie Koffskey
Novel Nanostructured Titania and Titania Nanocomposites for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis, Xinning Luan
Applications of the Variational Approach to Fracture Mechanics, Ataollah Mesgarnejad
Association of Lean Implementation on Perceived Organizational Maturity Levels of Managers and Staff in the Public Sector, Patrick Eduardo O'Mara
Assessing the effects of work zone configurations on drivers' visual attention, Karthy Punniaraj
An Experimental Investigation of Corrosion Fatigue Life via Thermographic Method, Richard Wayne Purvis
Using a Sleep and Activity Monitor to Operationalize Fatigue Risk Management, Vanessa Bégat Seitz
Crack Self-Healing in SiC/Spinel Nanocomposite, Fariborz Tavangarian
A thermographic method for remaining fatigue life prediction of welded joints, Paul Thomas Williams
Innovative Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques in Mechanical Face Seal, Nian Xiao
Novel Syntheses and Surface Modifications of Electrode Materials for Superior Lithium-Ion Batteries, Jianqing Zhao
Dissertations from 2013
Measurement of Continuum Breakdown Using a Disc Spin-Down Experiment in Low Pressure Air, Tathagata Acharya
Developing defect-tolerant demolding process in nanoimprint lithography, Alborz Amirsadeghi
Analysis and optimization of film cooling effectiveness, Hessam Babaee
Effect of rest time on heart rate, perceived exertion, and strength, Amir Bahador Bahmani Bahman Beiglou
Multiscale Analysis of Contact in Smooth and Rough Surfaces: Contact Characteristics and Tribo-Damage, Ali Beheshti
Electric Field Influence on the Combustion of Fuel Droplets, Solomon Benghan
Parametric optimization of a single-tracked vehicle, Darrick Jason Berner
Instability analysis and suppression of instability in low-density gas jets, Sukanta Bhattacharjee
Mechanistic analysis and reduced order modeling of forced film cooling flows, Guillaume Francois Bidan
Graph rigidity-based formation control of planar multi-agent systems, Xiaoyu Cai
Effects of partial confinement and local heating on healing efficiencies of self-healing particulate composites, Jonah Champagne
Liposomal uptake of silver and gold nanoparticles, Dipon Chanda
Micro & nano scale mechanical testing and assembly with applications to metal based microsystems, Ke Chen
Modeling, Numerical Analysis, and Predictions for the Detonation of Multi-Component Energetic Solids, Michael Wayne Crochet
Nanotube film-enhanced 3-D photoanode for application in microsystems technology, Fareed Dawan
3D integration of micro- and nanostructures into bio-analytical devices, Bahador Farshchian
Topology and Shape Optimization of Hydrodynamically–Lubricated Bearings for Enhanced Load-Carrying Capacity, Mohammad Fesanghary
Characterization and verification of a closed loop wind tunnel with a linear cascade and upstream wake generator, Christopher Foreman
Closed form solutions to the optimality equation of minimal norm actuation, Jorge Antonio Guerra
Comparison of in vivo human knee joint kinematics using axodes, Jacob Hipps
Numerical evaluation and analysis of the adhesion phenomena in thermal barrier coating systems through bio-mimicking plasma process, Naser Imran Hossain
Synthesis Of Poly(L-Lactic Acid) Scaffolds From Dioxane/Ethanol Using Control Rate Freezing And Study Of Its Microstructural Properties, George Idicula
Large Eddy Simulation and Analysis of Shear Flows in Complex Geometries, Prasad Mohanrao Kalghatgi
A study on the cleaning and modification of metal surfaces by direct current cathodic electrolytic plasma process, Jiandong Liang
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of Interaction of Amphiphilic Molecules with Lipid Bilayers, Jieqiong Lin
Metal-based microchannel heat exchangers : manufacturing and heat transfer testing, Bin Lu
Investigations of the Effects of Flame Configuration on the Combustion of Laminar Diffusion Flame, Li Lu
Steady and Unsteady Thermo-Strucural Simulation of Thermally Actuated Micro- and Nano-Structures, Elham Maghsoudi