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MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR AND DEFORMATION MECHANISM IN LIGHT METALS AT DIFFERENT STRAIN RATES
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Author
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Shen, Jianghua
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Materials science
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Description
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ABSTRACTJIANGHUA SHEN. Mechanical behavior and deformation mechanism in light metals at different strain rates. (Under the direction of Dr. QIUMING WEI)Developing light metals that have desirable mechanical properties is always the object of the e...
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MECHANICAL BUCKLING OF INDIVIDUAL SILICON NANORIBBONS ON A COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE
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Author
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Chang, Siang Yee
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science
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Description
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About a decade ago, mechanical buckling evolves as a promising metrology to rapidly measure the elastic moduli of thin films and one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. This form of metrology translates the geometrical measurements of the buckling pr...
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MICROSTRUCTURAL MODELING DURING MULTI-PASS ROLLING OF A NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOY
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Author
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Subramanian, Kannan
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Materials science
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Description
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Microstructure present at the end of rolling and cooling operations controls the product properties. Therefore, control of grain size is an important characteristic in any hot-working. The narrow temperature range for hot working of Alloy 718 make...
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Mechanical Characterization of Boron-Based One-Dimensional Nanostructures by Various Techniques
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Author
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Jiang, Youfei
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Materials science, Nanoscience
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Description
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One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, such as nanotubes, nanowires and nanobelts, have attracted considerable interests in the last two decades because of their exceptional physical, chemical, and electrical properties. Engineering applications of ...
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Optimized Aggregate Gradation Concrete Mixtures with Cementitious Material Reduction
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Author
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Theilgard, Peter
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Materials science
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Description
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Optimized aggregate gradation concrete mixtures with reduced cementitious materials are emerging in concrete mixture design in an effort to reduce costs and CO2 emissions while improving the concrete’s durability characteristics. Optimizing the ag...
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Processing and properties of materials with or without adiabatic shear susceptibility
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Author
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Chen, Xiaoxue
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Materials science
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Description
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In this dissertation, two topic areas related to adiabatic shear banding (ASB) phenomenon were studied. Body centered cubic (BCC) metals and alloys may exhibit ASB under uniaxial high strain rate compression if the grain size is refined into the u...
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Pyrolysis and Combustion Properties of Selected Structural Fuels in Residential Buildings
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Author
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Yang, Wenxu
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Engineering, Forests and forestry
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Description
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Firebrands are a major ignition source in large scale wildland and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Limited studies have been reported regarding firebrand generation. It was hypothesized that firebrand production characteristics can be descri...
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STRUCTURED OPTICAL MATERIALS FABRICATED USING TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION
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Author
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Li, Yanzeng
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Optics, Physics
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Description
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Artificially structured materials, which are treated as macroscopically homogeneous media, exhibit effective optical properties that can be altered by engineering the materials' intrinsic geometries at a scale much smaller than the probing electro...
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SYNTHESIS OF THIAZOLOTHIAZOLE FUNCTIONALIZED PORPHYRINS FOR ORGANIC SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS
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Author
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Grubich, Nicholas
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic
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Description
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Porphyrin light-harvesting systems have recently shown promising solar energy conversion properties in organic photovoltaic devices. Porphyrins, which absorb a broad portion of the solar spectrum and can be easily tuned with peripheral substituent...
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THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
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Author
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Fullager, Daniel
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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ABSTRACTDANIEL B. FULLAGER. Theory, characterization and applications of infraredhyperbolic metamaterials. (Under the direction of DR. MICHAEL A. FIDDY)Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered structures capable of supporting lightmatterinte...
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THERMOELECTRIC PHENOMENA FOR WASTE HEAT HARVESTING USING WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS
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Author
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Kucukgok, Bahadir
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Electrical engineering, Power resources
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Description
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The objective of this dissertation is to advance the fundamental understanding of the role of crystal defects on thermoelectric (TE) properties of wide band-gap materials in order to enable a new class of TE material for high temperature power gen...