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 1970
Discrimination of signal and noise events on seismic recordings by linear threshold estimation theory, David Nuse Peacock
An SEM surface study of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer to saturated liquid nitrogen reduced pressures from 0.1 to 0.9, David Virgil Porchey
Search algorithms for the simple plant location problem, John Bruce Prater
An investigation of the stiffness of shafts with integral disks, Richard King Riley
A study of far infrared grid filters, Harold Victor Romero
A simulation and diagnosis system incorporating various time delay models and functional elements, David Michael Rouse
Model-referenced adaptive control of plants with noise and inaccessible state vector, Donald James Schooley
Absolute excitation cross sections of He⁺ in 20-100 keV He⁺-He collisions using energy-loss spectrometry, Donald Roy Schoonover
Synthesis heuristics for large asynchronous sequential circuits, Robert Judson Smith
The deformation mechanisms in sublimed magnesium under cyclic loading, Babu Narian Thakur
Identification of decomposition products of tropyl azide and interaction of tropylium ion with nucleophiles, James Joseph Ward
The oxidation kinetics of liquid lead and lead alloys, Thomas Edward Weyand
An experimental and theoretical study of the nucleation of water vapor on ions in helium and argon, Daniel R. White
A model for predicting the energizing transients of station capacitor banks, Dennis Oliver Wiitanen
Numerical simulation of forward combustion in a radial system, Tommie C. Wilson
Optimizing diesel engine efficiency using the controllability of a variable ratio hydrostatic transmission, Gordon Wright
Anodic dissolution of zinc in potassium iodide-potassium iodate solutions, Chi-Chiu Yao
Dissertations from 1969
Noble gases: a record of the early solar system, E. C. Alexander
Vapor phase clustering model for water, Richard W. Bolander
A.C. Hall effect measurements on very high resistivity materials exhibiting electrode polarization, James Dale Boyd
Mössbauer Effect studies of ferroelectric phase transitions in the PbZrO₃ - PbTiO₃ - BiFeO₃ ternary system, James P. Canner
Models for the pn diode and the npn and pnp transistor for use in computer aided design and analysis programs, Glenn Ronald Case
A theoretical study on the interpretation of resistivity sounding data measured by the Wenner electrode system, Siew Hung Chan
Numerical inversion of the Laplace transformation and the solution of the viscoelastic wave equations, Abbas Ali Daneshy
A crystallization study of a tetrasilicic fluormica glass, William H. Daniels
Statistical inferences for location and scale parameter distributions, Robert Henry Dumonceaux
Calorimetry of room temperature deformed copper, George Juri Filatovs
Dynamic response of circular plates to transient and harmonic transverse loads including the effect of transverse shear and rotary inertia, Perakatte Joseph George
An optimization approach to well spacing for gas storage reservoirs, Jagannath Rao Ghole
The statistics of finite, one dimensional lattice fluids, John Roger Glaese
A method for determining transient stability in power systems, Charles A. Gross
Statistical inferences for the Cauchy distribution based on maximum likelihood estimators, Gerald Nicholas Haas
Statistical inferences for the generalized gamma distribution, Harold Walter Hager
Diffusion of iron and cobalt in nickel single crystals, Charles Frederick Heuer
Improvement in target detection with a frequency agile pulsed non-coherent radar, Kenneth Lee Horn
Low-lying levels in some spherical and rotational nuclides by Coulomb excitation and radiative capture of thermal neutrons, Donald Allan McClure
Longitudinal optical phonon-plasmon coupling in ionic semiconductors, Thomas Joseph McMahon
A finite element method for geometrically nonlinear large displacement problems in thin, elastic plates and shells, Ronald August Melliere
Grain boundary self-diffusion in sodium chloride, Kenneth Ray Riggs
Turbulence measurements in drag reducing flow, Jorge Mario Rodriguez
The iron-holmium binary system and related magnetic properties, Gerald J. Roe
Radiative lifetime of the B¹Σ⁺ and b³Σ⁺ states of carbon monoxide, John Robert Rogers
Characterizing topologies by continuous selfmaps, Derald David Rothmann
Signal distortion in a regenerative frequency divider, Carl Ray Ryan
A study of the energy loss spectra induced by impact of 23-125 keV protons on helium atoms, Franklin Dean Schowengerdt
Analysis of the traveling-wave transistor, Vernon Ray Stanley
Phase equilibria and thermodynamic studies in the system Ca0-Fe0-Fe₂0₃₋Si0₂, Muharrem Timucin
A five parameter study of spherical transient waves in a generalized Voigt model, Liang-Juan Tsay
Microwave propagation through isotropic inhomogeneous photoconductive media, Thomas Van Doren
X-ray determination of lattice parameters and thermal expansion coefficients of aluminum, silver and molybdenum at cryogenic temperatures, Claude Lowell Woodard
A study of the anodic oxidation of acetylene on platinum-gold alloys, Christopher Kuo-chieh Wu
Mass and heat transfer through nonwettable porous membranes, Chung-Liang Yeh
Spherical antenna array, Narong Yoothanom
Dissertations from 1968
The damage assessment of thermally shocked high density, high purity aluminum oxide, John H. Ainsworth
An experimental determination of the homogeneous nucleation rate of water vapor in argon and helium, Louis Benton Allen
Liquid extraction with single droplets-effect of chemical reaction, William Victor Andoe
Signal theoretic characterization of a function using positive exponential basis functions, James Julius Baremore
Recombination statistics for the neutron-induced base current component, Ming-Chwan Chow
Deuterium isotope effects on the solvolysis rates of cyclopentyl brosylates and tosylates, Jimmie D. Christen
Decomposition of Cr(OH)₃ to form active Cr₂C₃, Timothy A. Clancy
Nonparametric sequential detection, James Charles Fowler
Multiport synthesis with multi-layered distributed parameter RC networks, Walter Ronald Koenig
A study of the anodic oxidation of ethylene on gold and gold-platinum alloys, San-Cheng Lai
The effect of polymer structure on drag reduction in nonpolar solvents, Gin Chain Liaw
A study of succinic dehydrogenase, indole acetic acid oxidase, nitrate reductase and cytochrome c reductase in Hygrophorus Conicus, Jagdish M. Mehta
Optical reflectance spectra of chromium (III) in MgO-ss, Thomas Spencer Montgomery
A numerical simulation of pressure distribution and radius of drainage in infinite radial aquifers - constant rate case, Alton John Nute
Effect of micelles on flotation of metal ions, Uriel Michael Oko
Distributed parameter RC network analysis, Robert C. Peirson
The lifetime and effective quenching cross section of the 6²P₃/₂ state of thallium, Robert Charles Pickett
HRVA - a velocity analysis technique for seismic data, John Charles Robinson
Investigation by neutron diffraction utilizing white neutron radiation, Arlen Ray Schade
The identification and evaluation of toxic effects of organic micropollutants, John Warren Smith
Inferences on the parameters of the Weibull distribution, Darrel Ray Thoman
Cell model of a fluid with hard-core repulsive long-range attractive potential, Ralph G. Tross
Surface self-diffusion on nickel (111) by radioactive tracers, James Ronald Wolfe
Analysis of a focus log electrode in a non homogeneous medium, John Julian Zenor
Dissertations from 1967
A structural investigation of bismuth ferrate and the BiFeO₃-PbZrO₃-PbTiO₃ ternary system, Gary D. Achenbach
A study of surface and geometric effects on the nucleate boiling of liquid nitrogen and liquid argon from atmospheric to the critical pressure, Calvin Benson Cobb
The amino acid and monosaccharide content of the cell walls of Thiobacillus thiooxidans, Edward Hibbert Crum
An investigation of the creep characteristics of Portland cement mortar under static and dynamic strain, Ikram-ul-Haq Dar
The technique of lineaments and linears analysis and its application in the Minerogenic Province of Southeast Missouri, Hassan A. Etr
Matrix computer analysis of curvilinear grid systems, David Leon Fenton
Numerical approximation to performance predictions of gas-drive reservoir with or without gas-cap and gas injection, Jagannath Rao Ghole
Centrifugal model study and finite element analysis of stress near a fault, Christopher Haycocks
A theoretical investigation of elastic and Voigt transient spherical waves, and plane three-element viscoelastic waves, Edward Hornsey
Magnetic properties of the BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃-PbZrO₃ ternary system, James Ivan Latham
The transient dynamics of plane mechanisms, Navnit Chhaganlal Mehta
Kilocycle range dislocation damping in dilute magnesium alloy single crystals, Robert Ray Nothdurft
A calorimetric study of the effects of surface energy in a type II superconductor, Robert Rex Rice
High frequency ferroelectric properties of the BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃-PbZrO₃ ternary system, Robert Travis Smith
Study of resonance effects in allenic and related systems, Robert Andrew Steinkamp
Dissertations from 1966
A study of the supercooling behavior of high purity liquid bismuth, B. L. Bramfitt
Diffusional drop growth in a supersaturated atmosphere, John C. Carstens
Cenozoic and recent lunulitiform bryozoans of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, Ronald Greeley
Calculated cohesive energy of the ordered copper-gold alloy Cu Au I, Richard W. Hannum
Continuously tapered dielectric matching transitions for waveguides, William E. Hord
An investigation of the control of hydraulic fracturing through the inclusions of prefractures, William Joseph Kabeiseman
A theoretical approach to the problem of determining ejecta volumes in a gravitational vacuumed half-space, William J. Karwoski
