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Title: A GENERAL THERMAL THICKNESS MODEL AND A HEATING RATE RELATED IGNITION CRITERION FOR COMBUSTIBLE SOLIDS
Author: Tian, Ning
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the ignition behavior of combustible solid materials in fire. Three key tasks were conducted for it: (1) a new theoretical temperature profile prediction model, referred as General Thermal Thickness...

Title: A comprehensive study of the microstructure and mechanical behavior of HCP-based multilayered nanofilms
Author: Lu, Yuanyuan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Metallic multilayer films with the individual layer thickness h decreased to submicron or even less have attracted a great deal of attention over the past decades because of their impressive mechanical properties, especially the high strength. Mos...

Title: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF IMPURITIES ON THE DUCTILITY OF TANTALUM AND TUNGSTEN BASED ON ATOMISTIC AND FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS
Author: Pan, Zhiliang
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Tungsten and tantalum are neighbors in the Periodic Table of the Elements and, as refractory metals, both have very high melting points (tungsten: 3422oC, tantalum: 2996oC). However, the ductility of the two metals is quite different especially at...

Title: Correction of the post-necking True Stress-Strain data using Instrumented Nanoindentation
Author: Romero Fonseca, Ivan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: The study of large plastic deformations has been the focus of numerous studies particularly in the metal forming processes and fracture mechanics fields. A good understanding of the plastic flow properties of metallic alloys and the true stresses ...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR AND DEFORMATION MECHANISM IN LIGHT METALS AT DIFFERENT STRAIN RATES
Author: Shen, Jianghua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Materials science
Description: 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...

Title: PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
Author: Parker, Neal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...

Title: TERRESTRIAL LIDAR-BASED BRIDGE EVALUATION
Author: Liu, Wanqiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Considering the over half million bridges in the US state highway system, more than 70% of which were built before 1935, it is of little wonder that bridge maintenance and management is facing severe challenges and the significant funding scarcity...

Title: THE DIFFUSION AND IMPACT OF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS: A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH
Author: Wu, Xiaoran
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: As a promising and emerging technology for supply chain management, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a new alternative to existing tracking technologies and also allows a range of internal control and supply chain coordination. RFID has ge...

Title: Three essays in Asset Pricing under Model Uncertainty
Author: Jiang, Julia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation consists of three essays on asset pricing under model uncertainty. The first essay examines how aversion to uncertainty about the information transfer across firms affects asset prices in an equilibrium. I show that a firm's stoc...