Doctoral Dissertations
This collection contains dissertations written in partial fulfillment of the doctoral degree, from 1937 to the present.
The first doctoral degree was in Chemistry, awarded to Frank Joseph Zvanut; his dissertation was titled Pyrochemical changes in Missouri halloysite.. Zvanut had earned his Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering in 1932. Most recently, popular Ph.D. disciplines have included Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geological Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.
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Dissertations from 1973
A study of the dynamic loading of hydrodynamically lubricated journal bearings, Nader Khorzad
Film boiling of benzene, freon 113, freon 11, and normal pentane from horizontal surfaces at atmospheric pressure, Richard Stanley Kistler
Prebainitic phenomena in AISI 86B80 and 0.8C-5.3Ni steels, Chung Lim
Transient state analysis of separated flow around a sphere, Ching-Liang Lin
Charge transfer between Oˉ ions and O₂ molecules in the ground state and singlet delta excited state, Ronald Floyd Mathis
Tchebycheff approximation on a discrete point set: algorithms old and new, William Edward McBride
Detection and recognition of geometric shapes in a two-dimensional image, Darroll Steven McCormack
Auger satellites of the L₂₃ auger emission bands of Al, Si, and P, John Junior Melles
Convergence of material balance in mathematical simulation of petroleum reservoirs, Abdul Rashid Merchant
Measurement of molecular diffusivities of liquid alkane systems, James W. Moore
Initial surface reactions and nucleation kinetics of boron on atomically clean molybdenum substrates, Richard Eugene Moore
Implementation of recursive algorithms for delay-time estimation using the fast Walsh transform, Donald Robert Nelson
Methods for predicting the influence of intense sound, steady flow, and elevated temperature on the acoustic performance of automotive exhaust system components, Richard Chuka Oboka
FLOWWARE -- A flow charting method to describe digital systems, Wayne Everett Omohundro
Rock fragmentation by subsurface thermal inclusions - a finite element study, Mahendrakumar Ramkrishna Patel
Numerical simulation of heat, mass, and momentum transfer in an atmospheric boundary layer, Darrell W. Pepper
Absolute differential elastic and inelastic cross sections in 25-140 keV He⁺ + He collisions, Victor Pol
Considerations in the design of a network of minicomputers, Hardy J. Pottinger
Analysis of continuous curvilinear structures by infinite matrix series methods, Trinh-Ngoc Rang
Applications of frequency domain stability criteria in the design of nonlinear feedback systems, Allen Joseph Rushing
Linear stability of non-parallel flow in the entrance region of ducts, Francis Chung-ti Shen
Premartensitic elasticity of Fe-Ni Invars, Bryce Linn Shriver
A study of the pulse-height response of silicon surface-barrier detectors to high-energy heavy ions, Gregory Dan Smith
Approaches to the synthesis of azabullvalene, Thomas Rudolph Steinheimer
Paleozoic stratigraphy as an ore control of hydrothermal, base-metal, sulfide deposits in New Mexico, John Samuel Sullivan Jr.
Anionic polymerization of a series of 5-membered cyclocarbosiloxanes, Balaraman Suryanarayanan
A computer model for three-dimensional simulation of thermal discharges into rivers, Henry Anthony Till
Dynamic instability and ultimate capacity of inelastic systems parametrically excited by earthquakes, Wu-Hsiung Tseng
Nucleate boiling from polymer coated surfaces., David Franklin Warner
Petrography, chemical composition, and stratigraphic setting of the coals of North-Central Missouri, William Keith Wedge
Scavenging of atmospheric particles by water drops, Ming-shian Wu
Dissertations from 1972
Geochemical anomalies in the igneous wall rock at Mayflower Mine, Park City District, Utah, Zuhair Al-Shaieb
An asynchronous circuit design language system, Gregory Martin Bednar
Methods and applications of systems identification, Allen Glenn Behring
The utilization of high sensitivity noble gas mass spectrometry in the detection of iodine-129 and plutonium-244, Mervet S. Boulos
An exact analysis of two-dimensional radiative transfer in an absorbing and emitting gray medium, William F. Breig
Structure of zero divisors, and other algebraic structures, in higher dimensional real Cayley-Dickson algebras, Harmon Caril Brown
A learning receiver for communication in three-component multipath channels, Richard Paul Brueggemann
Mass transfer with second-order chemical reaction inside circulating fluid droplets, Roy James Brunson
Condensation and sublimation of carbon dioxide and water molecules at cryogenic temperatures, Victor Cazcarra
Substituent effects on the magnetic resonance spectra of 1, 4-disubstituted benzenes, Holger Er-Chah Chen
The electrochemical reduction of fumaric acid on Hg-Bi cathodes, Chen Hwei Chi
The average dissipation curve of an attenuative layered earth medium, Joong Hee Chun
Stratigraphy, genesis, and economic potential of the southern part of the Florida land-pebble phosphate field, Dean Stanley Clark
An acceleration technique for a conjugate direction algorithm for nonlinear regression, Larry Wilmer Cornwell
An analytical study of a confined viscous vortex, David Edward Crow
The structural behavior of cold-formed steel members with perforated elements, Charles S. Davis
The scattering of elastic waves by void cavities, Jerry Lee Davis
Selected first row transition metal coordination compounds of 2-(N-Aminomethyl)-3-Quinuclidinone chelates, Richard Cecil Dickinson
Statistical studies of various time-to-fail distributions, James Addison Eastman
The effect of impurities and additives on the electrowinning of zinc, Haruhisa Fukubayashi
Nonrandom characteristics of common stock prices, Donald Leroy Gaitros
Hydro-thermal generation unit commitment and dispatch using a dynamic programming approach, Warren Dean Graham
Ionization mechanisms in cesium, Yu Bong Hahn
A numerical, time domain solution for the response of a Gimbal supported gyro, Floyd Stanley Hall
Elementary length topologies constructed using pseudo-norms with values in Tikhohov semi-fields, Jackie Ray Hamm
Distributed-network realizations for the simulation of partial differential equations, Roy Dale Hensley
Secondary techniques for increasing fault coverage of fault detection test sequences for asynchronous sequential networks, Lewis Ronald Hoover
The morphology of cellular precipitation in aluminum rich aluminum-silver alloys, Santiago Ibarra Jr.
A study of the solid regions in the system Zr-Te, Frances Dolores Jenkins
Synthesis and properties of cadmium manganese ferrites, B. W. Jong
The use of shaped explosive charges to investigate permeability, penetration, and fracture formation in coal, dolomite and plexiglas, Calvin J. Konya
Digital spectrum analyzer systems: a model and system implementation, Richard Ray Kuenzer
IICADS--integrated interactive computer aided design system, Archie Golden Lambert
Mathematical modeling of river water temperatures, Leland Lovell Long
Deformation and fracture of concrete under uniaxial impact loading, Esteban Eulogio Miranda
Computer assisted teaching of steel design, Wendelin Henry Mueller III
The mio-eugeosynclinal thrust interface and related petroleum implications in the Sason-Baykan Area, Southeast Turkey, Ismail Özkaya
A yield and fracture model for TI-6AL-4V titanium and 7075-T6 aluminum, Richard L. Pendleton
A method for generating UTS assignments with an iterative state transition algorithm, Dattatraya Govind Raj-Karne
The application of impact dampers to continuous systems, Ranjit Kumar Roy
Grain boundary diffusion in ionic crystals, Kulwant Singh Sabharwal
Quasi-pseudometrics over Tikhonov semifields and fixed point theorems, Ronald Evans Satterwhite
An experimental investigation of the effects of ambient and heated steady flow and intense sound levels on the response of acoustic filter elements, Raymond H. Schaffart
The eikonal distorted wave Born approximation for the excitation of hydrogen by impact with hydrogen and helium in the intermediate energy range, Richard Homer Shields
The effect and compensation of time-base perturbations in analog recording systems, Clifford D. Skouby
Probabilistic models for construction estimating and bidding, James E. Spooner
Determination of thermal contact resistance between metals using a pulse technique, William Edward Stewart Jr.
Radiative and predissociative lifetimes of the A²Σ⁺ state of OH, Robert Allen Sutherland
Wall rock geochemistry of the Chester Vein, Sunshine Mine, Kellogg, Idaho, Nicholas Howard Tibbs
Modal truncation of substructures used in vibration analysis, Suresh Kumar Tolani
Effects of CR-plating and environment on the cracking of low alloy steels at high temperatures, Robert C. Tooke
Trend surface analysis as an aid in exploration for Mississippi Valley type ore deposits, John Siegfried Trapp
Synthesis and characterization of poly-(p-phenylene pyromellitamic acid), Constantine William Tsimpris
Time resolved measurements of droplet growth in a Wilson cloud chamber, Michael Anthony Vietti
Performance of self bit synchronizers for binary overlapping signals, Chung-Tao David Wang
Diffusiophoretic forces between juxtaposed atmospheric particles, Allen L. Williams
Dissertations from 1971
Internal friction of ion exchanged Li₂O•Al₂O₃•2SiO₂ glasses, A. Ismail A. Abdel-Latif
Surface plasmon-longitudinal optical phonon contribution to the reflectivity of n-type InSb, William Eugene Anderson
Use of the turbulence kinetic energy equation in analyzing turbulent near wakes, James Edward Auiler
Low-energy electron transport by the method of discrete ordinates, David E. Bartine
An investigation of the radiation polymerization of methyl methacrylate-kaolin clay composites, James Jackson Beeson
Some statistical inferences for the bivariate exponential distribution, Bruce Mohr Bemis
On-line economic optimization of a chemical reactor, Jesse Daniel Bennett
Homogeneous nucleation of water vapor in inert gas atmospheres, Arthur Henry Biermann
Distribution of trace elements in olivines and proxenes - an experimental study, Melvin Leroy Bird
Structure and properties of silver borate glasses, Edward Nashed Boulos
Statistical study of rock drilling by hypervelocity jets from explosive shaped charges, John William Brown
Synthesis, X-ray characterization, structural and magnetic studies of a new class of iso-structural BiMO₃ compounds, Joseph Donato Bucci
The effect of a knurled heat transfer surface upon pool nucleate boiling of normal pentane, Jerry James Carr
