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 1971
The thermal accommodation coefficients of helium, neon, and argon on surfaces, Gerald Lee Zweerink
Dissertations from 1970
A study of the anodic oxidation of 1, 3-butadiene on platinum and gold electrodes, Arun Kumar Agrawal
Investigation of liquid carryover in the girdler-sulfide process for production of heavy water at the AEC Savannah River Plant, Samuel Clark Allen
Upper cretaceous and lower cenozoic foraminifera of three oil wells in northwestern Iraq, Farouk Sunallah Al-Omari
The electrochemical behavior of the lead-thallium system in acidic sulfate solutions, Pedro Juan Aragon
Substitution and photolytic rearrangements in three-member ring compounds, Joseph Terril Bohanon
Use of the turbulence kinetic energy equation in prediction of nonequilibrium turbulent boundary layers, William Madison Byrne Jr.
Completeness and related topics in a quasi-uniform space, John Warnock Carlson
Investigation into the monotonic magnetostriction and magnetic breakdown in cadmium, James Milo Carter
Radiative lifetime of the A¹π state and the transition moment variation of the fourth positive band system of carbon monoxide, Joseph George Chervenak
Electrode reactions in zinc electrolysis, Ernest R. Cole
A quasi-lattice model of simple liquids, Jesse Herbert Collins
IDDAP -- Interactive computer assistance for creative digital design, Richard Franklin Crall
Development and application of cartesian tensor mathematics for kinematic analysis of spatial mechanisms, Robert Myrl Crane
The electrochemical oxidation of 1-pentyne on platinum and gold, Michael Jensen Danielson
Thermochemical hydrogen-deuterium isotope effects, Wayne C. Duer
A heuristic algorithm for determining a constructive suboptimal solution to the combinatorial problem of facility allocation, Harry Kerry Edwards
Theory of shallow donor impurity surface states, Vidal Emmanuel Godwin
A coordinate oriented algorithm for the traveling salesman problem, Joseph Sidney Greene
An investigation of nucleate and film boiling heat transfer from copper spheres, William David Hardin
Realistic impulsive P wave source in an infinite elastic medium, Joseph Hugo Hemmann
Higher space mode analysis of a large cylindrical pulsed H₂O system, Harold David Hollis
The cathodic reduction of maleic acid, Show Yih Hsieh
Mass transfer from spherical gas bubbles and liquid droplets moving through power-law fluids in the laminar flow regime, Cheng-chun Huang
Extension of some theorems of complex functional analysis to linear spaces over the quaternions and Cayley numbers, James E. Jamison
Ionization of air produced by strong shocks, Howard Sajon Joyner
Penetration in granite by shaped charge liners of various metals, Hemendra Nath Kalia
A three-dimensional mathematical simulator of multiphase systems in a petroleum reservoir, Leonard Koederitz
Linear regression models of sound velocity in the North Atlantic Ocean below a critical depth, Richard Roland Kunkel
The surface effects of alkali halides in the infrared, Vincent Joseph Llamas
Some effects of OH groups on sodium silicate glasses, Mokhtar Sayed Maklad
A computer simulation of mine air shaft thermodynamics, Ambyo Sumopandhi Mangunwidjojo
Effect of axial dispersion on interphase mass transfer in packed absorption columns, Virendra Kumar Mathur
Diffusion and internal friction in sodium-rubidium silicate glasses, Gary L. McVay
Structures and relationships of some Perovskite-type compounds, Christian Michel
Heuristic algorithms for the generalized vehicle dispatch problem, Leland Ray Miller
Binary molecular diffusivities in liquids: prediction and comparison with experimental data, Ronald Dean Mitchell
Temperature variation in distribution of relaxation times in aluminosilicate glasses, David Wayne Moore
The reaction of N-sulfinylamines with diazoalkanes, Harry R. Musser
Simulation of a gas storage reservoir with leakage by a two-dimensional layered mathematical model, Steven William Ohnimus
Voids in neutron irradiated aluminum, Nicholas H. Packan
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
