Browsing by Author "Radovic, Miladin"
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Thawabi, Hassan S (2013-04-16)Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys FSMAs have diverse application, especially in the aerospace and bio-medical industries. They are a class of active and smart materials exhibiting strains under the influence of an applied ...
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Young, Benjamin En-Min (2022-02-07)There is an increasing demand for compact and lightweight actuators in aerospace and automotive industries. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are energy-dense active materials with the potential to replace current actuators through ...
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Hayrettin, Ceylan (2017-10-09)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are promising candidates for solid state actuators since they have the highest energy density among all active materials. However, before SMA solid state actuators can be used in practical ...
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Chen, Yexiao (2020-04-24)Alumina-forming materials, such as FeCrAl-based alloys, Ni, Co or Fe based superalloys, have been long studied because of their excellent oxidation resistance and promising applications at high temperatures. Recently, ...
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Tajeddini, Vahid (2016-07-19)Smart or adaptive structures that use multifunctional materials to control the response of a structure have been of considerable interest in recent years. Some examples are foldable and flexible structures that can be ...
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Ly, Maximilian D (2017-04-20)Carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRCs) are preferred materials used in the aerospace industry for high performance load bearing applications. The polymer matrix in CFRC is a viscoelastic material and its mechanical ...
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Gao, Peipei (2016-08-08)Doped binary oxides (DBOs) with fluorite structures, such as doped ceria (CeO2) or zirconia (ZrO2), are widely used in different electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, oxygen sensors, and gas separation ...
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Patil, Nutan Shashank (2020-11-18)This work addresses the hypothesis that Radio Frequency (RF) assisted heating of carbon nanotubes and silicon carbides can enable low-infrastructure direct and out-of-oven heating, based on only electrical power. This ...
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Atomic Scale Studies of the Stress Effects on Defect Kinetics and Damage Evolution of Irradiated Fe Kang, Changwoo (2018-01-11)Irradiation of the materials with neutrons or energetic particles creates a significant number of point defects and nucleates extended defects, such as dislocations and voids. These defects result in the changes of material ...
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Leng, Han (2017-12-04)Palladium hydrogen system has unique catalytic activities and up to 1:1 hydrogen adsorption capability. It is studied in the context of hydrogen embrittlement, which is a subset of stress corrosion cracking, with classical ...
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Gibbons, Sean Lee (2016-03-04)In this work, two thermo-mechanical treatments of Eglin Steel (ES-1) are designed that leverage computational tools and focus on microstructural grain refinement and optimal epsilon-carbide (Fe2:4C) precipitation. More ...
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Mahaffey, Patrick Brian (2013-08-07)Beams are among the most commonly used structural members that are encountered in virtually all systems of structural design at various scales. Mathematical models used to determine the response of beams under external ...
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Helmreich, Grant (2012-02-14)The sintering behavior of uranium and uranium-zirconium alloys in the alpha phase were characterized in this research. Metal uranium powder was produced from pieces of depleted uranium metal acquired from the Y-12 plant ...
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Zhou, Yan (2014-04-24)This research evaluates carbon-based biomaterials and investigates their fundamental mechanisms in bio-lubrication. Approaches include experimental investigation combined with molecular dynamics simulation. There are four ...
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Li, Sheng-Yen (2013-08-06)The purpose of this work is to optimize the chemical composition as well as the heat treatment for improving the mechanical performance of the TRIP steel by employing the theoretical models. TRIP steel consists of the ...
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Flynn, Kevin Joseph (2009-05-15)This thesis demonstrates the practicability of using Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) in combination with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to determine the size and location of a defect in a material of known geometry ...
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Development and Optimization of a High-Temperature Geopolymer Based Adhesive for Metallic Substrates Westwick, Matthew James (2016-08-08)Geopolymers (GPs) are defined as a unique class of inorganic polymers synthesized through polycondensation of monomeric Al and Si species into a complex 3D framework. Due to their good mechanical properties, fire resistance, ...
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Lee, Hyocheol (2019-11-30)Accurate evaluations of fuel behavior is a crucial part in the determination of fuel operation limits and in the verification of burnup capabilities and reliability characteristics. In-pile behaviors of metallic fuels are ...
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Ha, Dong Gi (2021-04-20)Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) is an experimental technique that can provide a full set of elastic constants of a solid from a single measurement as well as ultrasonic attenuation in solids. This technique is based ...
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Kotasthane, Vrushali Sandeep (2023-04-27)MXenes are two-dimensional nanomaterials that have garnered immense attention since their discovery in 2011. These transition metal carbides/nitrides are typically synthesized by selectively etching the “A” element from ...