Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Masters Theses
Theses from 1973
An experimental analysis of oil spill drift caused by water waves, Jan Michael Pottinger
Analysis of interferometric holography in temperature measurement, Allan James Reifel
Parametric resonance of a beam subjected to a sawtooth, axial force, Alfred George Richardson
Approximate normal mode method to determine the response of certain nondiagonalizabel vibratory systems, Jayaram Seshadri
An experiment to determine the coupled unidirectional effect of wind and waves on surface drift, Rameshchandra C. Shah
Stability of filled cylindrical shell columns, Yu Wen Tsao
On the complex index of refraction of bulk materials, Carol Jeanne Warren
Experimental analysis of v-belt tensile loads, John Mark Wiesehan
Theses from 1972
An engineering analysis of fluid amplifiers and development of an air velocity sensor, Gian Sagar Aneja
Transient cooling of a sphere due to boiling, Salil K. Banerjee
A practical approach to the exhaust silencing of a pneumatic rock drill, Morton Gary Barth
Design and construction of a drop generator for use in a vertical wind tunnel, Danny Ray Conner
Force analysis of involute spur gears, Janakkumar Girjashanker Dave
Design of a torsional vibration machine, Prafulchandra Pragjibhai Desai
Feasibility study of using a steam power system in a small garden tractor, Niranjan Kumar Doshi
The effects of intense sound levels and steady flow on the propagation of plane-waves in air, Wuu Hao
Investigation of a new type of cloud condensation nuclei counter: the thermal quench chamber, Donald Arthur Hess
Design and test an operational amplifier speed transducer, Tung-Ming Huang
A study of plane wave filter analysis with flow, Thomas Valle Huber
A study of the effect of drilled holes on the concentration of elastic stresses around a notch, Glenn Michael Kmecz
Experimental studies of supporting wire disturbances in the near viscous wakes of slender supersonic bodies, Kenneth Anthony Mirly
A comparison of analytical and experimental approaches in determining the thermoelastic stresses around a cylindrical inclusion of elliptical cross-section, Kenneth Byron Oster
Wind tunnel modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, Sreemanth Pagadala
Application of transmission matrices to describe transverse vibrations of non-uniform Bernoulli-Euler beams, Dean Irle Parker
The steady-state response of a fluid-filled beam near resonance, Niranjan Jayantibhai Patel
Measurement of turbulence in an annular jet, George Philip
Drift velocity measurements of various materials floating on water waves, Paul Keith Scherrer
On the complex index of refraction for liquids, Juan Guillermo Ochoa Sierra
The analog simulation of heat transfer devices for the smoothing of a fluctuating fluid temperature, Le Thai Son
Design and preliminary testing of a rotary internal combustion engine, Frank Darrell Statkus
Parametric analyses of regenerative steam power cycles, Vallabh Vithalbhai Vaghani
Analysis of a substitute for the impact damper to damp near-resonant mechanical vibrations, Nguyen Khanh Van
The analysis of an axially symmetric submerged membrane shell, Walter Earl Wehmeyer
Theses from 1971
Development of an elastic-plastic finite element program with the initial strain approach, Vernon Dale Allen
Feed drive design for numerically controlled machine tools, Subash Bhatia
An experimental determination of the effect of the axisymmetric turbulent wake on the pressure distribution on a sphere, Martin Gardner Bowin
A step-wise gray approximation of the radiative absorption coefficient for an isothermal hydrogen plasma, Keith Harlan Browne
A closed form method for predicting the history of circular orbit altitude decay of a near-earth satellite including the effect of a dynamic atmosphere, John Copley Buchholtz
Design of a semi-automatic transmission, Yogendra Prahladray Buch
Two component heat pipe, Surapol Chandsawangbhuvana
The influence of member length on thermal contact resistance in a vacuum environment, Larry Martin Cooper
A study of a nitrogen heat pipe, Jay Dudheker
Design and preliminary testing of a thermomechanical rock fragmentation apparatus, Gary Earl Fenton
The thermal contact resistance of lubricant films in vacuum, Garry A. Heizer
A study of radiative heat transfer from a spherical layer, Hakimuddin Kalimuddin Khalil
An investigation of stress in the MONOWALL construction system subjected to racking loads, Louis Alex Kuhlmann
An energy solution for vibration characteristics of free thin cylinders, Dale Elmer Leanhardt
Normal mode method applied to the transient longitudinal vibrations of a finite rod with material damping and viscoelastic dispersion, David Arthur Levene
A triangular element for numerical solutions of axisymmetric conduction problems in cylindrical coordinates, Prafulla Chandra Mahata
An analog computer simulation of the flapping of a helicopter hinged main rotor blade, Edward Charles Robinson
Hydrostatic extrusion of tubular products, John Lester Roth
Radiant interchange in a non-isothermal rectangular cavity, Tilak Raj Sawheny
Free vibrations of circular cylindrical shells, Sushil Kumar Sharma
Laser interferometric holography investigation of free convection about a vertical plate of non-uniform temperature, Richard Kenneth Thomson
Laminar heat transfer for small Prandtl number fluids including step change in wall temperature, Shiny Ting
The effect of diameter on the film boiling behavior of liquid nitrogen, William Joseph Wafer
An investigation of a bistable oscillator used in a phase modulated control circuit, Yu-Fang Yen
Theses from 1970
Transient response of a vibration isolation system, Hemendra Shantilal Acharya
Abandoned automobiles :a case history of land pollution, Robert William Arden
Dynamic analysis of a torsional vibration actuator, Narayandas Trikamdas Ashar
The design, construction and experimental verification of a split hopkinson bar, Woosoon Bai
Magnetohydrodynamic channel flow with non-uniform inlet velocity profiles, Gwok-Liang Chen
Vibration of a rotating cantilever beam with an independently rotating disk on the free end, Darrell Blaine Crimmins
Efficiency and loss mechanism of the electro-fluid dynamic momentum transfer process applied to propulsion systems using atmospheric air as the working fluid, Roger Coy Crites
Magnetohydrodynamic stability of laminar flow in the entrance region of a parallel-plate channel, Thomas Eldon Eaton
Analysis and control of noise produced by small pneumatic tools, Phillip Ray Elam
Design and construction of a velocity control system for a low turbulence, vertical wind tunnel, Lawrence Vehslage Field
An investigation of the adjustable element concept for design of automotive exhaust mufflers, Phillip Scott Gegesky
Light scattering as a means of probing particulate systems, Arwind Krishna Gore
The design and construction of an inertia welder, Arthur Ferdinand Grimm
A digital computer program for studying elasto-plastic structural behavior due to cyclic loading, Rameshchandra Chandulal Hazariwala
Measurement of thermal accommodation coefficients of steel surfaces, Wing On Ho
On the flow near an enclosed rotating blade in the neighborhood of the ground, Tze-Lien Liang
Influence of some interstitial materials on the thermal contact conductance, Jin-Tyan Lin
Effect of inclination on film boiling, Shih-Chang Lin
Thermal stresses in circular plates including the effect of transverse shear deformation, An-Ton Liu
Influence of film thickness on the performance of solid lubricants, Sunil Vishwanath Mahale
A computer simulation of the internal ballistics of recoilless-rifle rocket launchers, John Edd Mosier
Initial operation and calibration of the UMR supersonic axisymmetric wind tunnel, James Riley Murphy
A transient method of negligible internal thermal resistance for determining thermal contact conductance in a vacuum, Richard Chuka Oboka
Numerical solutions of the torsional oscillations of a shaft-flywheel system, Mahendrakumar Ramkrishna Patel
Linear analysis of pneumatic dashpot damping, Nathalal Gordhanbhai Patel
Evaluation of cascaded inertial vibration isolation systems, Rajnikant Bhikhabhai Patel
The closed cycle-external combustion engine and air pollution, Galen Lee Pearson
Turbulent structure in the wake of sphere, Darrell W. Pepper
The development and analysis of a system to measure transient angular velocity, David Lawrence Persson
Heat transfer through a spherical gas shell, Adel Nassif Saad
Mutually dependent heat and mass transfer in laminar tube flow, Gary Alfred Scheffel
The influence of a carbon ablation layer on radiation from a hydrogen shock layer, Birbal Singh
Effect of surface conditions on nucleate pool boiling of refrigerant-11, Abbas M. Sinnarwalla
Interface thermal conductance with metal screens as interstitial material, William Edward Stewart Jr.
Bound-free continuum radiation from non-gray nonisothermal shock layers, Chu Yih Wang
Analysis of elastic thermal stresses by station-function collocation methods, Jaw-Kuang Wang
A study of the effects of pressure-induced viscosity changes on the fluid flow characteristics in a circular tube, Robert Charles Weber
A study of the design and construction of a full scale aircraft component demonstration fatigue test, Stephen Andrew Wright
Failure of lined and unlined small-scale cavities in rock-like materials, Seung-ki Yang
Theses from 1969
The analysis of R-S-S-R spatial four-bar mechanism, David Perng Chyi
The design of a direct current generator field controller, Melvyn Elwin Downs
Experimental determination of dynamic properties of aluminum including Poisson's ratio, Terry Lee Holman
Design of R-C-C-R spatial mechanism, Kao-chien Hsei
