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Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

BAYESIAN-INTEGRATED SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING FOR PRODUCTION LINE RISK ASSESSMENT, Sudhir Punyamurthula

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A 3D-PRINTED, THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER (TPE) SPRING ELEMENT FOR USE IN CORRECTIVE HAND ORTHOTICS, Kevin Thomas Richardson

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF DUCT SYSTEMS ABOVE THE PLANE WAVE CUTOFF FREQUENCY, Kangping Ruan

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF PREMIXED FLAMES OF MULTI COMPONENT FUELS/AIR MIXTURES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, Essa KH I J Salem

Verification and Validation Studies for the KATS Aerothermodynamics and Material Response Solver, Olivia Schroeder

The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS): Sub-orbital Flights, James Devin Sparks

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SHAPE MEMORY BEHAVIOR OF HIGH STRENGTH NiTiHfPd SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Guher P. Toker

ATTITUDE CONTROL ON SO(3) WITH PIECEWISE SINUSOIDS, Shaoqian Wang

CHARACTERIZATION OF ROTARY BELL ATOMIZERS THROUGH IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, Jacob E. Wilson

SCALE MODELS OF ACOUSTIC SCATTERING PROBLEMS INCLUDING BARRIERS AND SOUND ABSORPTION, Nan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

PRODUCT DISASSEMBLABILITY AND REMANUFACTURABILITY ASSESSMENT: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, Ammar Ali

DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPPLIER SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR INCREASED RESILIENCE AND ROBUSTNESS: A STUDY USING AGENT BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION, Adam J. Brown

AN EFFICIENT HEURISTIC TO BALANCE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN UTILIZATION AND PATIENT FLOWTIME IN OPERATING ROOM MANAGEMENT, Feidi Dang

THE LIMITS & EFFECTS OF DRAW ON PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF PAN-BASED PRECURSOR AND THE RESULTANT CARBON FIBERS, Sarah Edrington

ADAPTIVE MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPERATING ROOM PLANNING WITH STOCHASTIC DEMAND AND CASE TIMES, Vivek Reddy Gunna

A TRANSFER MATRIX APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE LOW FREQUENCY INSERTION LOSS OF ENCLOSURES INCLUDING APPLICATIONS, Shujian He

A FRAMEWORK AND METRICS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT THE PRODUCTION LINE, PLANT AND ENTERPRISE LEVELS, Aihua Huang

AUTONOMOUS QUADROTOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND DESTINATION SEEKING IN A GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENT, Thomas C. Kirven

ANALYTICAL AND BOUNDARY ELEMENT SOLUTIONS OF BULK REACTING LINED DUCTS AND PARALLEL-BAFFLE SILENCERS, Jundong Li

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, ORIENTATION, LOAD LEVEL AND INDENTER SHAPE ON THE INDENTATION RESPONSE OF NITI-BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Peizhen Li

Data-Driven Adaptive Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes k - ω Models for Turbulent Flow-Field Simulations, Zhiyong Li

FORECASTING THE WORKLOAD WITH A HYBRID MODEL TO REDUCE THE INEFFICIENCY COST, Xinwei Pan

Target Read Operation of Passive Ultra High Frequency RFID Tag in a Multiple Tags Environment, Zi Qin Phua

INVESTIGATION OF POLISHING METHODS AND SURFACE ANALYSIS AFTER MACHINING AISI 4140 ALLOY STEEL, Qiang Qi

Effect of Interlayers on Mechanical Properties and Interfacial Stress Transfer of 2D Layered Graphene-Polymer Nanocompsites, Colton C. Roach