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Title: Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics
Description: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...

Title: Characterization of Highly Efficient Delivery Models for Eye Care Services in Veteran Affairs
Author: Kilambi, Sruthi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Veterans Affairs (VA) provides eye care and vision treatment to all eligible veterans to help improve eye and vision health. Over the past years, timely access to eye care has become a challenge with the increase in its demand. Therefore, it is im...

Title: Cluster-based Composite Pavement Deterioration Modeling: A Framework for Incorporating Flooding
Author: Neema, Ishan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Pavement networks are among the most valuable highway assets for a nation asbillions of dollars have been invested every year in construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. These networks undergo deterioration over time due to traffic loading, ...

Title: Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
Author: Maharjan, Rabindra
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...

Title: Coordinated optimal control of smart buildings and PV systems in active distribution networks
Author: Kodanda Pani, Naveen Kumar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the electrical grid system. With advancement in smart technology such as smart me...

Title: Current state of practice for condition assessment methods and the facility condition index as a measure
Author: Karanja, Pauline
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Buildings deteriorate for various reasons which include age, overcapacity, and lack of planning and preventative maintenance. Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) are used to measure this deterioration with the aim of collecting data to determine...

Title: DAILY LOAD FORECASTING WITH HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Author: Shukla, Shreyashi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Load forecasting at the daily resolution is generally performed by aggregating the predicted hourly load. Long-term daily load forecasting is essential for resource planning in the power system and price evaluation of energy contracts. Short-term ...

Title: DATA MODELS TO SUPPORT METROLOGY
Author: Heysiattalab, Saeed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: The Quality Information Framework (QIF) is a project initiated in 2010 by the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC is an American Standards Developing Organization) to address metrology interoperability. Specifically, the QIF supports ...

Title: DATA-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTICS OF ISSUES RELATED TO POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS USING PMU MEASUREMENT
Author: Arefi, Mahmoodreza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work investigates the use of data driven techniques to diagnose issues related to power system dynamics. The source behind the data are simulated Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measurements. First, this study examines the application of Weight...

Title: DESIGN, TOLERANCING, AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DYNAMIC FREEFORM OPTICAL SYSTEMS
Author: Shultz, Jason
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Physics
Description: Although freeform concepts have been considered for many decades, new fabrication capabilities have enabled new classes of optical components and sparked greatly increased interest in freeform optics. Generally defined as surfaces without rotation...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A VERSATILE HIGH SPEED NANOMETER LEVEL SCANNING MULTI-PROBE MICROSCOPE
Author: Lin, Feilong
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: The motivation for development of a multi-probe scanning microscope, presented in this dissertation, is to provide a versatile measurement tool mainly targeted for biological studies, especially on the mechanical and structural properties of an in...

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL TOOLS FOR MAGNETIC DRUG TARGETING IN CARDIOVASCULAR FLOW
Author: Ciero, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The aim of the present work is to design and develop experimental and numerical tools to investigate the practicality of magnetic drug targeting (MDT) in a patient-specific diseased left carotid bifurcation artery for the potential prospects of tr...

Title: DEVELOPMENT, VERIFICATION, AND VALIDATION OF AN APPLIED ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR GLASS LITE FRACTURE, FRAGMENTATION, AND DEBRIS FIELD PREDICTION
Author: Moss, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: In the aftermath of an explosive event, forensic investigators are presented the challenge of characterizing the properties of the explosive device, including the charge size and epicenter of the detonation. Although surrounding infrastructure dam...

Title: DISTRACTED DRIVING AND DRIVER INTERPRETATION OF SHORT TERM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE WORK ZONES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Oosthuysen, Scott
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Transportation
Description: Previous literature of distracted driving and inattention has found that secondary tasks not associated with the task of driving increase vehicular accidents and near miss accidents. Distracted drivers are comparatively different to non – distract...

Title: DRONE ROUTING FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS UNDER HILF EVENTS
Author: Alapati, Mahesh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: Significant damages caused by extreme weather conditions such as flood, storm, hurricanes, blizzards etc., contribute multiple and widely-spread damages to electric power transmission and distribution systems resulting in large-scale power failure...

Title: DUAL PROJECTION FRINGE PROJECTION PROFILOMETRY
Author: Venkatesh, Bhanu teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Three-dimensional modeling
Description: Fringe-pattern projection (FPP) techniques are widely used for surface-shape measurement in a wide range of applications like object and scene modeling, part inspection, and reverse engineering. This thesis presents a way to increase the accuracy ...

Title: DYNAMIC CONVEX OPTIMAL POWER FLOW APPROACHES FOR MODERN POWER GRID
Author: Moghadasi, Seyedmahdi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Non-convexity of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem in power systems poses difficulties in reaching optimal solutions which can adversely affect the overall solution efficiency, convergence and appropriate scheduling of generators. Dynamic convex OP...

Title: DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCMENT IN DIGITAL FRINGE PROJECTION AND LASER INTERFEROMETRY
Author: Babaie, Gelareh
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Meteorology
Description: GELAREH BABAIE. Dynamic range enhancement in digital fringe projection and laser interferometry. (Under the direction of DR. FARAMARZ FARAHI)Optical metrology is the science and technology concerning measurements with light. Surface texture and 3D...

Title: Data-Driven Strategy for Improving Energy Efficiency in Retail Banks
Author: Neely, Evan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: This thesis explores a data-driven strategy approach to curtailing HVAC energy consumption in a large retail portfolio. Energy building simulation software was utilized to predict setpoint related energy savings potential across all United States ...