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Lattice Green's Function Method for Modeling Solid Solution High Entropy Alloys
Raver, Aidan ( 2022-05 )Solid solution high entropy alloys (HEAs) are a class of emerging materials composed of five or more elements in roughly equiatomic proportions that possess outstanding mechanical strength, high fracture toughness, and ... -
Learning to Stand with a Simulated Prosthesis
Shepherd, Robert ( 2019-05 )Learning to stand and balance is one of the most important processes that human children go through as they become independent competent movers. However, the process that humans use to learn to stand stably has not been ... -
Liquid Metal Embrittlement in Resistance Spot Dissimilar Welds on Advanced High Strength Steels: Microstructure and Fracture Characteristic
Stotts, Michael ( 2018-12 )Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) are being utilized in automotive production in an effort for body-in- white weight reduction while being able to attain an increase in structural strength. During the Resistance Spot ... -
Lithium Ion Battery Data Management
Ferrato, Frank ( 2018-05 )Lithium Ion Battery research is growing due to the need for renewable resources. Since the amount of research is growing so is the amount of data collected. With all this data it is taking more and more of researcher's ... -
Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management Systems Using Flexible Graphite Heat Dissipators
Myers, Matthew ( 2012-06 )Lithium-Ion batteries are used in a wide variety of devices over a broad range of powers. All batteries generate heat due to the internal resistance of the battery and entropic effects which is roughly proportional to ... -
Locating the Temperature Switch for a Drag Reducing Solution
Soulas, Stavroula ( 2018-05 )Low-cost and environmentally friendly district heating has become a popular trend in northern Europe. These systems use excess heat from plants or factories to heat water, which is then used to supply heat to homes and ... -
Longitudinal Comparison of Water and Biofilm Microbial Communities after UV Light versus Chlorine Disinfection
Killian, Amanda ( 2020-05 )Improved water treatment solutions are needed to disinfect microbial pathogens transmitted from water that cause many deaths in the United States and throughout the world each year. While much is known about impacts of ... -
Loop Detector Sampling Frequency Errors Affecting Length Based Classifications
Karski, Troy ( 2012-06 )The classification of vehicles has multiple purposes, including, but not limited to, roadway planning, quantifying environmental impacts, and determining roadway deterioration. Length based classifications from loop ... -
Low Cost Automatic Transmission Line Sectionalizing
Dulmage, Andrew ( 2009-12 )As energy prices increase and there is a push for a smarter energy grid, people are continually looking for ways to make the energy grid more reliable and efficient. Specifically, power outages can cause huge problems to ... -
Low Frequency Noise of Few Layer MoS2
Cheng, Junao ( 2017-05 )The study of 2D semiconductor materials has been proposed as one of the most promising candidates to resolve the problem of upcoming limit of CMOS fabrication technology in downscaling. We can further shrink the device ... -
Low-Speed Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Delta Wing with Articulated Wingtips, Elevons, and Leading-Edge Vortex Flaps
Mulh, John ( 2022-05 )The use of delta wings in modern aviation presents engineers with a wide array of tools to modify an aircraft's performance and flight characteristics. Various control surfaces have been developed to modify and enhance a ... -
Machine Control System Modeling and Design For Incremental Profile Forming of Metal Tubular Structures
Volchko, Angella ( 2019-05 )Today, manufacturers require specialized machinery to produce various metal tubular designs for aeronautical and automotive applications. In an effort to reduce machine and tooling redesign with every unique tubular ... -
Machine Learning in Ultra-High Energy (UHE) Neutrino Analysis
Alhag, Abdullah ( 2019-08 )The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a NASA long-duration balloon experiment with the primary goal of detecting ultra-high-energy (> 1017 eV) neutrinos via the Askaryan Effect. This research investigates ... -
Machine Learning Models for Jet Noise Analysis
Shah, Madhav ( 2019-05 )Jet noise has been an active area of research since the inception of jets and although understanding of the mechanisms behind jet noise are more understood, there is still a lack of knowledge to predict jet noise from ... -
Magnetic Characterization of Ferritin
Zeng, Yuzhi ( 2013-05 )Many diseases including hemochromatosis, chronic anemia, and cirrhosis result in abnormal levels of iron stores. Due to its correspondence with different physiological conditions, iron content is often used as a disease ... -
Magnetic Colloidal Micropumps
Henighan, Thomas ( 2010-06 )Presented here are three designs and early prototypes for a mechanical micropump which is actuated by colloidal magnetic micro-spheres controlled by stray fields of magnetic micro-disks. Advantages of this actuation technique ... -
Magneto-Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Mechanical Properties
Zemelka, Cole ( 2022-05 )Metamaterials are a class of fabricated materials that can possess properties or exhibit responses to loading that are not representative of bulk materials found in nature. This is possible through unique geometric design, ... -
Magnetostrictive Metal-Matrix Composites
Scheidler, Justin ( 2011-06 )In this research, the prospect of embedding rolled Galfenol samples with wound induction coils was tested by embedding steel samples wound with induction coils. A 10.16 mm (0.4 in) wide steel sample, wound with a 60 turn ... -
Making Microlensing Predictions With a New Population Synthesis Galactic Model
Huston, Macy ( 2018-05 )With the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) in preparation, it is important to have a method of interpreting existing microlensing data and for making predictions for future surveys. Limited by the lack of ... -
Mapping of Iron in Brain Tissue from Alzheimer's Disease using Magnetic Force Microscopy
Shah, Stavan ( 2021-05 )Iron is important for many physiological purposes and its dysregulation is a hallmark in the pathology of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Specifically, the AD brain consists of nano to microscale ...