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Fall 2024

Zaiemyekeh, Zahra

Design and development of better-performing ceramic structures are vital in industry-driven applications where a wide range of strain rates and stress states are induced in the material (e.g., impact events). Accordingly, this thesis investigates the strain-rate and stress-state-dependent...

Fall 2024

Sheikhi Mohammadabadi, Saeed

Understanding the dynamics of injecting fluids into porous media is essential for enhancing the reliability of subsurface storage/sequestration of fuels such as hydrogen or combustion byproducts such as carbon dioxide. In either case, significant progress has been made overcoming a variety of...

Fall 2024

Okocha, Stephen I

Rail derailment comprising largely from main track derailments frequently occur in the Canadian railway network. Reports have shown that some of these derailments experienced a train-initiated emergency brake application caused primarily from broken rails especially at extreme cold temperatures....

Fall 2024

Wei, Dongdong

Operated under changing wind speed and harsh environment conditions, the rotating parts in wind turbine gearboxes, such as gears and bearings, will deteriorate and become faulty over time. By conducting real-time and accurate fault detection and diagnosis before significant failures occur, we can...

Fall 2024

Moosavian, Seyedhashem

Disordered biopolymer gels, such as those synthesized from polysaccharide and gelatin, play a crucial role in biomedical applications, particularly in tissue engineering. During the gelation process of these gels, polymer chains associate in the presence of gelling agents, forming physical...

Fall 2024

Nayan, Nusrat F

The aviation industry worldwide consumes approximately 1.531.7 billion barrels/year ofconventional jet and 140 million litres/year of bio-jet fuel and it has been estimated thatcommercial aviation has contributed approximately 2-6% to global carbon emissions. Biomassderivedjet (bio-jet) fuel may...

Spring 2024

Singh, Satyajit

Predicting polymer drag reduction from polymer solution rheology can be potentially achieved by developing a model between friction factor and rheological characteristics. The model’s foundation depends on establishing a correlation between these parameters, and its robustness depends on the size...

Spring 2024

Mao, Luyue

In this thesis, an advanced stress-state- and strain-rate-dependent model, Generalized Incremental Stress State dependent damage MOdel (GISSMO), is implemented to predict the ballistic responses of Armox 500T steel under high-velocity impact in finite element solver LS-DYNA/Explicit. The GISSMO...

Spring 2024

Moradi, Kazem

The growing global demand for energy, coupled with the need for sustainable and efficient energy solutions, has driven the exploration of new energy sources. Low-grade heat, widely available but challenging to convert into usable forms of energy (such as electricity), is a focal point for...

Fall 2024

Baritto Loreto, Miguel Leonardo

Non-combustion products, i.e., those not burned for energy production, have the potential to diversify and enhance the resilience of the oil sands industry in anticipation of reduced fuel demand due to the ongoing decarbonization of the economy. Despite the significance of this transition, there...