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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Fall 2013
Microseismic event location provides a plethora of information about underground processes such as hydraulic fracturing, steam injection or mining and volcano activities. Nevertheless, accuracy is limited by acquisition geometry and errors in the velocity model and time picks. Although...
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Fall 2016
Two major applications of microseismic (MS) monitoring in petroleum engineering are hydraulic fracturing operations and caprock integrity assurance. With respect to caprock integrity, this research has investigated the observation of the absence of detectable magnitudes of microseismic events as...
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Microstructural Analysis of Ni-WC Metal Matrix Composites Deposited Using Plasma Transferred Arc Additive Manufacturing
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The objective of this thesis is to examine how the composition and solidification rate influences the thermal degradation of WC and the resulting microstructure of WC-Ni metal matrix composites (MMCs) deposited using plasma transferred arc additive manufacturing (PTA-AM). Scanning electron...
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Fall 2019
Microscopy techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the morphology of fuel cell porous media. Mathematical parametrization of the microscopy images is important to characterize the porous media microstructure and compare the differences between various samples. A framework which can...
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Spring 2014
Crude oils contain a distribution of molecules with diverse chemical structures and molecular weights. Asphaltenes are considered the most problematic of these structures. We have investigated the adsorption and aggregation of asphaltenes on surfaces using scanning probe microscopy. Modifying the...
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Microstructural Characterization of Chromium Carbide Overlays and a Study of Alternative Welding Processes for Industrial Wear Applications
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Microstructural features of chromium carbide overlays (CCOs) were examined in this work. It was found that the microstructures can contain unmelted alloy powders. It was also shown that the structures of the primary M7C3 carbides are long hexagonal rods. Change in the microstructure from the top...