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Spring 2018

Ma, Xiaoang

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) can be used in many critical applications, including biomedical and aerospace fields, due to their ability to recover their original/permanent shape from a deformed/temporary shape upon application of a stimulus. SMPs are subjected to bending in a large number of...

Spring 2018

Castillo Lugo, Andres A

The span-restorable meta-mesh approach was previously proposed as a novel method for improving the capacity efficiency of span restoration in a sparse network. The fundamental idea behind this method is to route lightpaths that fully transit chains of degree-2 nodes onto logical bypass spans that...

Fall 2017

Wang, Edward L

The skirt-to-shell attachment weld on coke drums is susceptible to low-cycle fatigue failure due to severe thermal-mechanical cyclic stresses. Therefore, various skirt attachment designs have been proposed and implemented to reduce stress and thus improve reliability. The most common skirt design...

Fall 2017

Soiket, Mohammad Ikthair Hossain

Oil sand is a mixture of sand, clay, water, bitumen and other minerals. Production of transportation fuels like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, etc. from the oil sands reserved in deep underground reservoirs require external stimulant to lower the viscosity of bitumen. The established thermal...

Spring 2017

Moradi, Ali

We examine the transient evolution of a negatively buoyant, laminar plume in an emptying filling box containing a uniform porous medium. In the long time limit, τ→∞, the box is partitioned into two uniform layers of different densities. However, the approach towards steady state is characterized...

Spring 2018

Noamani, Alireza

Evaluating several pathological conditions such as low-back pain, scoliosis, herniated discs, and postural stability after spinal cord injury or chronic stroke requires a deep understanding of the inter-spinal interactions. Assessing the kinetics of the human head-arms-trunk (HAT) could provide...

Fall 2017

Agrawal, Nikhil

Freshwater is a critical natural resource and is used in energy production, conversion and utilization. To ensure that the use of water today does not adversely affect the prospects for its use by future generations, there is a need to understand long term water demand and supply through energy...

Fall 2017

Xu, Hao

Power transformers are essential for the operations of industrial systems such as metal production plants, and for the transmission and distribution of electricity to end users. Power transformer failures can cause huge loss of production, expensive downtime, significant costs for repair or...