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Characterization of Thermal-Mechanical Properties and Optimal Selection of Coke Drum Materials
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Coke drums, critical equipment in petroleum industry, experience severe thermal-mechanical loading during operations and, the safety and integrity of the coke drum are important to the industries. The tendency of material selections of the coke drum is increasing towards with higher content of...
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Continuum Modelling and Analysis of a Class of One and Two Dimensional Elastic Metamaterials with Local Rotation
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The group of materials classified as "metamaterials" have accrued great interest in the scientific community as of late for their potential to revolutionize several multidisciplinary applications. Metamaterials are defined as synthetic/man-made materials which have been engineered to possess a...
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Fall 2018
Elastic metamaterials have received growing attention from the research community due to their unique properties and attractive engineering applications. The unusual elastic wave manipulation ability of the elastic metamaterials mainly comes from the delicately designed structural configuration....
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Dynamic behaviour of piezoelectric sensors and their application in crack identification for SHM
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The health monitoring of critical structures plays a crucial role in locating damage positions timely and preventing catastrophic failures. Much attention has been devoted to exploiting piezoelectric sensors/actuators to develop techniques of recording elastic wave signals to realize structural...
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Fall 2009
The performance of smart structures depends on the dynamic electromechanical behavior of piezoelectric sensors/actuators and the bonding condition along the interface. This thesis contents a theoretical study of the coupled electromechanical characteristics of a surface-bonded piezoelectric...
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Electromechanical Behaviour of Surface-Bonded Piezoelectric Sensors/Actuators with Imperfect Adhesive Layers
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The performance of smart structures depends on the electromechanical behaviour of piezoelectric sensors/actuators and the bonding condition along the interface, which connects the sensor/actuator and the host structures. This thesis documents a theoretical study of the influence of material...