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 1976
The geology and microscopy of the Prewitt Copper Shale (Permian), Jackson County, Oklahoma, D. E. Gann
Mass transfer in dispersed and continuous phases in non-newtonian fluids, Türker Gürkan
Extremal structure of convex sets, J. C. Hankins
A mechanistic and structural investigation of plasma-polymerized ethylene, Marvin R. Havens
The stratigraphy and tectono-depositional history of the Smithville and Black Rock Lithosomes (Canadian) of Northeastern Arkansas with revisions of upper Canadian stratigraphy in the Ozarks, William Jesse Hedden
Effective availability of systems and the spare parts requirement, Jamnarn Hokierti
Environmental effects on composite-girder bridge structures, J. Leroy Hulsey
Empirical spectral representations obtained from attenuation data for a tungsten target x-ray tube operated from 10-70 kVCP, Leonard Arthur Huneke
Substitutional and ordering effects in rare earth-transition metal alloys, Paul Edward Johnson
Electrical degradation in high purity barium titanate, Jeffrey Duncan Keck
The effect of molybdate on the anodic oxidation of acetylene, Robert Elroy Kuhlmann
PUMN: A radiation damage simulation computer program for the winery system, John Paul Kuspa
Sulfide generation in experimental filled pipes, Muthiah Mariappan
Determination of vapor-liquid equilibria from total pressure measurements, Jose Antonio Casas Martinez-Ortiz
A comprehensive chamber study of homogeneous nucleation of water over a wide range of temperatures and nucleation rates, Ronald C. Miller
Behavior of inelastic multi-story structures subjected to 2-D earthquakes, Kenneth Byron Oster
Independent particle model relativistic correction factors for isotope shift, Ismail Sinan Ozkal
Factorial analysis of some variables and their optimization for the production of sound die castings, Dinesh Shantilal Patel
Optimum design of nonlinear control systems, Varaporn Pichetvivatana
Fault detection in combinational circuits using a statistical approach, William Edward Pierson
Energy transfer collisions in a flowing helium afterglow with additive impurities: emission spectra and radiative lifetimes, Frederick H. K. Rambow
Electron-hydrogen atom scattering in the presence of an electromagnetic field, John Thomas Reed III
Solving mixed-integer quadratic programs by the sequential contour contraction technique, James Lee Richards
Reactions in the system lime-alumina-water, James Edward Rourke
Kinetic and mechanistic investigation of the cerium (IV) oxidation of bezilic acids, Abdulkadir Sezai Sarac
A study of the lateral displacement phenomena, for uninterrupted traffic flow on freeways, Ali A. Selim
Analytical study of high voltage transmission line oscillations induced by electrostatic forces, Kiritkumar S. Shah
Microwave measurements of the hydroxyl radical using emission microwave spectroscopy, David John Skipper
Burden-rock stiffness and its effect on fragmentation in bench blasting, Norman Saylor Smith
Optimal fuel supply control for electrical energy systems -- a real time computer technique, Richard Allan Smith
On estimating functionals of probability densities and applications to parameter estimation, Dolores Marie Halper Tichenor
Dynamics of a partially-filled cylinder, Don Ross Tichenor
Analysis of thick-walled bourdon tubes, Robert Charles Weber
Dissertations from 1975
Effect of photoneutrons on transients of beryllium reflected reactors, Safdar Ahmad Ali
Total scattering cross section measurements for Argon on water vapor over the relative velocity range 650 to 1100 meters per second, Henry Eugene Berek Jr.
Optimizing underground, trackless loading and hauling systems, Richard Lee Bullock
Split-film anemometry in a drag-reducing solution, Jack Chosnek
Excitation of source electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies using optical techniques, M. Davarpanah
Development of helicopter flight path models utilizing modern control techniques, Alfred Fermelia
A computer technique for calculating the radiological consequences of pressurized water reactor power plant hypothetical accidents, Charles Francis Gill
The noble gas record of terrestrial and meteoritic samples, Edward W. Hennecke
A heuristic algorithm for the multi-terminal vehicle dispatch problem using the modified sweep algorithm, Jerry George Johnson
Design, fabrication, and application of uniformly distributed RC networks for use in electronic circuits, Michael Flynn Kavanaugh
Applications of metrics over Tikonov semifields and fixed points in Hilbert spaces, John David Kubicek
A study of the effect of rotation on the nucleate boiling from a vertical copper cylinder, Ralph Ramon Landry
Mixed nonderivative algorithms for unconstrained optimization, Roger Ellis Lessman
Application of laser holographic interferometry to the analysis of ground movement above underground openings, Duk-Won Park
Use of adaptive linear equalization and maximum-likelihood sequence estimation in conjunction with filtering to improve QPSK communication in intersymbol and interchannel interference channels, Srinivasa H. R. Raghavan
Simulation of nonisothermal absorber-reactors for multicomponent systems, Robert E. Schwab
A study of some life testing distributions, Robert Marvin Smith
A blocked orthogonalization method for nonlinear regression, Daniel C. St. Clair
Application of voltammetry to copper electrodeposition, Louis Francis Toth Jr.
Influence of initial turbulence intensity on the heat and moisture transfer through a recirculated air curtain, Nguyen Quang Van
A mathematical investigation of the effects of computer architectural features on program size, James Frederick Wade
Bit penetration into rock - A finite element study, Jaw-Kuang Wang
Corrosion and electrochemical behavior of Indium and Indium-Bismuth alloys in hydrochloric acid, Yar Ming Wang
Classification of surficial materials, James Hadley Williams
Characterization of heat-treated nickel and gold films on silicon single crystals, Ki Hyun Yoon
Dissertations from 1974
Direct and inverse heat conduction in rock materials using the finite element method, Vernon Dale Allen
An analytical and experimental study of the dynamic response of a press, Woosoon Bai
Dropwise condensation as affected by vapor diffusion and molecular sticking, Salil K. Banerjee
Towards a design of HMO, an integrated hardware microcode optimizer, James Oliver Bondi
Transition boiling of normal pentane from a horizontal flat gold surface, Ronald M. Canon
The morphology of cellular precipitation in magnesium rich magnesium-aluminum alloys, Jyong Shi Cho
A study of the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of carbon acids in methanol, Dennis L. Filger
Process optimization by flow sheet simulation, Larry Dale Gaines
On integrability and L¹ convergence of certain cosine sums, John William Garrett
Solvability of differential systems near singular points, Leon M. Hall
Surface elastic waves in piezoelectric semiconductors and layered media, Yu-pin Han
Parameter identification of nonuniform distributed RC networks, Roger Allen Hayes
On interaction in the two-way AOV model without replication including power comparisons of two tests for non-additivity, Victor John Hegemann
The chemical and electrochemical oxidative decarboxylation of methyliminodiacetic acid in acid media, Rita Kathleen Hessley
RC-gyrator ladder and RLC symmetrical lattice network synthesis - A state-space approach, Tien Hua
Cross sections for photoionization of the 6²P-fine structure levels of cesium, John Daniel Jones
Anionic polymerization of a series of cyclocarbosiloxanes, William W. Knickmeyer
Surface electromagnetic waves with damping I. Isotropic Media II. Anisotropic Media, Gary Shannon Kovener
Kalman filter equalization for QPSK communications, Tze-Shen Lee
State-space analysis and synthesis of active RLC networks, Wen-Pao Lee
Dynamical modeling of computing systems and its applications to other systems, Heh-Ching Li
Structural behavior of cold-formed steel members made of thick sheets and plates, Ai-Shen Liu
The effect of contact angle, surface roughness, and adsorption of heterogeneous nucleation of condensing water, Prafulla Chandra Mahata
Methods and applications of the mean-variance portfolio selection model, John W. Marsh
Evaluation of methods for the recovery, chemical and toxicological characterization of trace organics, James Robert Matthews
Metal salt catalyzed carbenoids II, Robert Stephen McDaniel Jr.
Hydrodynamic mixing model applied to a continuous stirred-tank reactor with and without second-order reaction, Leon L. Otte
A characterization and study of barium promoted silver catalysts for the partial oxidation of ethylene, Robert Harold Pahl
A finite element method for three-dimensional analysis of metal forming, Nguyen Don Phu
Solid-fluid drag reduction, Ian Radin
Phase equilibria and transformations in potassium sulfate, chromate, molybdate, and tungstate, Roy Richard Ramey
Base-induced reactions of p-Nitrobenzyl compounds, Paul Henry Ruehle
Numerical modeling of the early stage of cloud formation in a simulation chamber, Adel Nassif Saad
A study of exothermic chemical reaction in a porous catalyst wedge, Joseph Michael Schardl Jr.
Mathematical simulation of gas and water coning in petroleum reservoirs by the dynamic material balance technique, Visheshwar Nath Simlote
Measurements of condensation coefficient exhibited by water drops grown on rural cloud nuclei, Abbas M. Sinnarwalla
Kinetic and thermodynamic acidities of selected weakly acidic hydrocarbons, Darrell R. Strait
Solid transformations and premelting phenomena in fluorite structures and the system SrCl₂BaCl₂, Damri Sukhotanang
Double reflection dips - from grating ruled semiconductors, Le-Fu Teng
Nucleate boiling of N-Pentane, N-Hexane and several mixtures of the two from various tube arrays, Kenneth Wayne Wall
In vitro studies of lipid uptake by medical grade silicone rubbers used for heart valve balls, Shu Hua Wu
