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Title: CONSTITUTIVE MODELING OF ALUMINUM FOAM AND FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION FOR CRASH SIMULATIONS
Author: Bi, Jing
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: In the past decades metallic foams have been increasingly used as filler materials in crashworthiness applications due to their relatively low cost and high capacity of energy absorption. Due to the destructive nature of crashes, studies on the pe...

Title: Noninvasive Laser Vasectomy
Author: Cilip, Christopher
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: Development of a noninvasive vasectomy technique may eliminate male fear of complications (incision, bleeding, infection, and scrotal pain) and result in a more popular procedure. These studies build off previous studies that report the ability to...

Title: Space Variant Guided Mode Resonant Filters
Author: Roth, Zachary
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Guided mode resonance filters (GMRF) combine subwavelength gratings and planar slab waveguides to create highly efficient, narrow linewidth spectral filters. Resonances between diffracted orders of the SWG and the waveguide provide the mechanism f...

Title: VARIABLE SELECTION FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX COEFFICIENT MODELS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN FINANCE AND ENGINEERING
Author: Yang, Bingduo
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics, Finance
Description: Variable selection with a non-concave penalty function has become popular in recent years, since it has ability to select significant variables and to estimate unknown regression coefficients simultaneously. In this dissertation, I consider variab...