Browsing by Author "Caglar Oskay"
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Li, Shiying (2019-07-11)Department: MathematicsSplines have been used to approximate the solutions of differential equations for a while. In the first part of this thesis, adaptive algorithms based on the finite element method and splines on triangulations with hanging ...
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Yapar, Ozgur (2015-02-24)Department: Civil EngineeringFor effective bridge management, monitoring its health and repairing the detected damages efficiently are essential. The first part of this study uses acoustic emission (AE) technique for real-time health monitoring. For ...
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Comparison of Interfacial Shear Strength measurements for Bonded materials and Composite materials Krishnan, Arun (2008-09-23)Department: Civil EngineeringComposite materials play an important role in today’s engineering structures. These types of materials are made of two or more individual material components with weak interfaces in-between different material types. Since ...
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Chang, Siyuan (2016-11-07)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe overall objective of this work is to develop a computational fluid-structure interaction (FSI) model of vocal fold vibration for its future applications in clinical care of voice disorders. One example of such applications ...
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Yan, Hao (2015-03-20)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation presents a multiphysics model to simulate and predict the deformation and failure of metallic materials and structures subjected to extreme loading and environmental conditions. The particular focus has ...
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Song, Jialei (2016-01-20)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe flapping wings of flyers in nature such as birds, insects, and bats have recently attracted engineers' interest because of their applications in biomimetic and highly maneuverable micro air vehicles (MAVs). As unique ...
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Jimenez, Stephen Keith (2017-12-04)Department: Civil EngineeringDamage mechanics approaches are developed for the numerical modeling of fracture evolution along sharp (i.e., zero-thickness) and diffuse (i.e., finite-thickness) interfaces and applied to investigate ice sheet fracture ...
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Heard, William Franklin (2014-03-25)Department: Civil EngineeringSystematic development of a new self-consolidating high-strength cementitious armor material, for use in protective construction against blast and ballistic impact, is presented. Multi-scale experimental methods are ...
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Ahn, Jae Seok (2010-07-13)Department: Civil EngineeringThis study is concerned with the accurate prediction of response of structural components under mechanical loads in the presence of various types of irregularities in homogeneous as well as inhomogeneous systems like ...
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Bichon, Barron James (2010-04-17)Department: Civil EngineeringReliability analysis is critically important to a wide array of engineering fields that increasingly depend on computational models to predict system performance. However, previously available methods for performing this ...
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Bogdanor, Michael James (2015-11-25)Department: Civil EngineeringFiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites present a significant opportunity for increas- ing performance and energy efficiency in a number of technology sectors, most notably the automotive and aerospace industries. In ...
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Pan, Yao (2017-11-28)Department: Computer ScienceWebsites routinely distribute small amounts of work to visitors’ browsers in order to validate forms, render animations, and perform other computations. Website visitors implicitly perform computational work for the website ...
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Pike, Matthew Gregory (2015-11-13)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation presents a computational framework for the formulation and implementation of an Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) for random short fiber reinforced composite materials. XFEM is used to eliminate the ...
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Nordendale, Nikolas Andrew (2013-09-18)Department: Civil EngineeringOne of the defense related research programs of recent interest is focused on developing ultra-high strength concrete (UHSC) mixtures and lightweight, rapidly deployable protective structures. A goal of these research ...
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Modeling the Failure Behavior of Composite Bolted Joints Subjected to Monotonic Loading Conditions Paulson, Wendy Jean (2017-03-27)Department: Civil EngineeringComposite materials are attractive for aerospace vehicles due to their low weight and high performance; however, predictive computational models are needed to lower the costs associated with their design and certification ...
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Hu, Ruize (2019-02-21)Department: Civil EngineeringPeriodic composites with tailored microstructures and material properties such as phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials exhibit extraordinary capabilities in controlling elastic waves by manipulating band gaps that ...
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Crouch, Robert Doyle (2012-08-13)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation presents a novel multiscale computational framework for simulating failure and damage accumulation in brittle composites. A reduced-order multiple spatial scale methodology is developed to efficiently ...
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Hui, Tong (2014-07-22)Department: Civil EngineeringThis research proposes a computational framework of the dynamic response of composite structures based on the mathematical homogenization theory with multiple spatial scales. The computational framework serves to reproduce ...
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Sparks, Paul Anthony (2015-03-20)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation presents a reduced order multiscale computational model for simulating failure and damage propagation in brittle composite materials. The model builds on the eigendeformation-based reduced order homogenization ...
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Zhang, Xiang (2017-09-12)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation is devoted to the development of multiscale modeling strategies for polycrystalline materials at both micro- and structural scales. At the microscale, a dislocation glide based crystal plasticity finite ...