The mission of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is to provide quality educational programs for undergraduate and graduate students planning careers in mechanical engineering or allied fields; to create and disseminate knowledge through research, publication, and other scholarly activities; to engage in professional activities to promote the mechanical engineering profession; and, to provide support to enhance the economic well-being of the state and the nation.

2009

Analysis of Flux-Base Fins for Estimation of Heat Transfer Coefficient, Kevin D. Cole, C. Tarawneh, and B. Wilson

2008

Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Metal Nanotips by Nanosecond Pulse Laser Melting, Bo Cui, Lin Wu, and Stephen Y. Chou

Numerical Simulation of a Novel Blast Wave Mitigation Device, Zhenbi Su, Wen Peng, Zhaoyan Zhang, George Gogos, Reed Skaggs, and Bryan Cheeseman

Experiments and models for the thermal response of railroad tapered-roller bearings, Constantine M. Tarawneh, Kevin D. Cole, Brent M. Wilson, and Fadi Alnaimat

Subcritical and Supercritical Droplet Evaporation within a Zero-Gravity Environment: Low Weber Number Relative Motion, Hongtao Zhang, Vasudevan Raghavan, and George Gogos

2007

Thermal characterization of microscale conductive and nonconductive wires using transient electrothermal technique, Jiaqi Guo, Xinwei Wang, and Tao Wang

Order-disorder transformations in Sm–Co and Sm–Co–ZrC systems with 2-17 stoichiometry, Y.Y. Kostogorova-Beller, Jeffrey E. Shield, and M.J. Kramer

Surface anisotropy and magnetic freezing of MnO nanoparticles, Marco Morales Torres, Ralph Skomski, Shannon Fritz, G. Shelburne, Jeffrey E. Shield, Ming Yin, Stephen O'Brien, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

2006

Highly coercive rapidly solidified Sm–Co alloys, Shampa Aich, V.K. Ravindran, and Jeffrey E. Shield

The all boron carbide diode neutron detector: Comparison with theory, A.N. Caruso, Peter A. Dowben, S. Balkir, Nathan Schemm, Kevin Osberg, R.W. Fairchild, Oscar Barrios Flores, Snjezana Balaz, A.D. Harken, Brian W. Robertson, and Jennifer I. Brand

Comparative modeling of performance limits of solid state neutron detectors based on planar B-rich capture layers, A. D. Harken and Brian W. Robertson

Magnetic behavior of rapidly solidified Pr–Co alloys with the TbCu7-type structure, J. Kostogorova and Jeffrey E. Shield

Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental Study of In Vivo Wheeled Robotic Mobility, Mark E. Rentschler, Jason Dumpert, Stephen R. Platt, Karl Iagnemma, Dmitry Oleynikov, and Shane M. Farritor

High-energy product exchange-spring FePt/Fe cluster nanocomposite permanent magnets, X. Rui, Jeffrey E. Shield, Zhiguang Sun, L. Yue, Yinfan Xu, David J. Sellmyer, Z. Liu, and D.J. Miller

A Minimum-Impact Method for Measuring Corrosion Rate of Steel-Hulled Shipwrecks in Seawater, Matthew A. Russell, David Conlin, Larry E. Murphy, Donald L. Johnson, Brent Wilson, and James Carr

Load Transfer Issues in the Tensile and Compressive Behavior of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, G. A. Shen, S. Namilae, and Namas Chandra

Magnetic reversal in three-dimensional exchange-spring permanent magnets, Jeffrey E. Shield, J. Zhou, S. Aich, V.K. Ravindran, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer

Direct synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes bridging metal electrodes by laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition, J. Shi, Yongfeng Lu, K.J. Yi, Yushun Lin, Sy_Hwang Liou, J.B. Hou, and X.W. Wang

Modeling and Simulation of the Interaction Between Lubricant Droplets on the Slider Surface and Air Flow Within the Head/Disk Interface of Disk Drives, Lin Wu

2005

Magnetic behavior of Sm-Co-based permanent magnets during order/disorder phase transformations, Shampa Aich, J. Kostogorova, and Jeffrey E. Shield

The Stability and Oxidation Resistance of Iron- and Cobalt-Based Magnetic Nanoparticle Fluids Fabricated by Inert-Gas Condensation, Nguyen H. Hai, Raymond Lemoine, Shaina Remboldt, Michelle A. Strand, Steve Wignall, Jeffrey E. Shield, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

Texture formation in FePt thin films via thermal stress management, P. Rasmussen, X. Rui, and Jeffrey E. Shield

Texture formation in FePt thin films via thermal stress management, P. Rasmussen, X. Rui, and Jeffrey E. Shield

Cluster-assembled exchange-spring nanocomposite permanent magnets, X. Rui, Zhiguang Sun, Yinfan Xu, David J. Sellmyer, and Jeffrey E. Shield

Numerical analysis of heat transfer in pulsating turbulent flow in a pipe, Xuefeng Wang and Nengli Zhang

2004

BORON-CARBIDE SOLID STATE NEUTRON DETECTOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME, Peter A. Dowben, Shireen Adenwalla, Brian W. Robertson, and Mengjun Bai

Magnetization Processes in Melt-Spun Sm-Co-Based Alloys With the TbCu7-Type Structure, A. Hsiaoa, S. Aich, L. H. Lewis, and Jeffrey E. Shield

Planetary Cliff Descent Using Cooperative Robots, Erik Mumm, Shane Farritor, Paola Pirjanian, Chris Leger, and Paul Schenker

The Effect of Transition Metal Additions on the Microstructure and Properties of Nanocomposite Pr–Fe–B Permanent Magnets, Jeffrey E. Shield, Yi Liu, R. Marr, Z. Chen, and Baomin Ma

Re-examination of “missing strain” during superplastic deformation of AA7475, M. J. Tan, C. L. Chen, and Namas Chandra

A helical tow model and numerical simulation of on-line thermal curing of thermoset composites in filament winding, Xuefeng Wang, David Y.S. Lou, and Negli Zhang`

2003

Magnetoresistance in boron carbide junctions, L. Bernard, J. Monson, A. Sokolov, Zong-Yuan Liu, C.S. Yang, Peter A. Dowben, B. Doudin, A. Harken, P. Welsch, and B.W. Robertson

Effect of combined metal-carbon additions on the microstructure and structure of Sm2Fe17, B. E. Meacham and Jeffrey E. Shield

Production of fine Nd-Fe-B alloy powder by pulsed plasma atomization, Jeffrey E. Shield, S. Christensen, R. W. Kincaid, and F. D. Witherspoon

Thermodynamic Determination of the Cation Distribution in NixMn1-γ-xFe2+γO4 Ferrites, Qiangmin Wei and Brian W. Robertson

2002

A class of boron-rich solid-state neutron detectors, B.W. Robertson, Shireen Adenwalla, A. Harken, P. Welsch, J.I. Brand, Peter A. Dowben, and J.P. Claassen

Chemical Partitioning During Crystallization and its Effect on the Microstructure and Magnetic Behavior of Modified Nd–Fe–B Permanent Magnets, Jeffrey Shield, B. B. Kappes, D. J. Branagan, and J. Bentley

2001

Fabrication of 2- and 3-Dimensional Nanostructures, Hong Jiang, Camelia N. Borca, Bo Xu, and Brian W. Robertson

2000

The State and Future of Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Stephen M. Clifford, David Crisp, David A. Fisher, Ken E. Herkenhoff, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Peter C. Thomas, David D. Wynn-Williams, Richard W. Zurek, Jeffrey R. Barnes, Bruce G. Bills, Erik W. Blake, Wendy M. Calvin, Jonathan M. Cameron, Michael H. Carr, Philip R. Christensen, Benton C. Clark, Gary D. Clow, James A. Cutts, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, William B. Durham, Fraser P. Fanale, Jack D. Farmer, Francois Forget, Kumiko Gotto-Azuma, Rejean Grard, Robert M. Haberle, William Harrison, Ralph Harvey, Alan D. Howard, Andy P. Ingersoll, Philip B. James, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Hugh H. Kieffer, Janus Larsen, Kenneth Lepper, Michael C. Malin, Daniel J. McCleese, Bruce Murray, John F. Nye, David A. Paige, Stephen R. Platte, Jef f J. Plaut, Niels Reeh, James W. Rice, David E. Smith, Carol R. Stoker, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson, Stephen E. Wood, Aaron Zent, Maria T. Zuber, and H. Jay Zwally

Order–disorder effects in nitrided Sm–Fe permanent magnets, B.E. Meacham, Jeffrey E. Shield, and D.J. Branagan

1999

In situ STEM Technique for Characterization of Nanoscale Interconnects During Electromigration Testing, Ismail Gobulukoglu and Brian W. Robertson

1998

The effect of grain size on magnetic properties in Sm2Fe17Nx, Jeffrey E. Shield, D.J. Branagan, C.P. Li, and R.W. McCallum

1997

A generalized solidification model and microstructural verification for the Nd–Fe–B–Ti–C system processed by rapid solidification, M.J. Kramer, C.P. Li, K.W. Dennis, R.W. McCallum, C.H. Sellers, D.J. Branagan, and Jeffrey E. Shield

1996

Chemcial Vapor Deposition Precursor Chemistry. 5. The Photolytic Laser Deposition of Aluminum Thin Films By Chemical Vapor Deposition, John A. Glass, Seong-Don Hwang, Saswati Datta, Brian W. Robertson, and James T. Spencer

Explosive compaction of Magnequench Nd–Fe–B magnetic powders, S. Guruswamy, M.K. McCarter, Jeffrey E. Shield, and V. Panthanachan

Co-Sm (1̅100)[0001]//Cr (1̅21̅)[ 1̅01] epitaxy and its effects on magnetic properties of Co-Sm//Cr films, Yi Liu, David J. Sellmyer, and B.W. Robertson

Ultraviolet and electron radiation induced fragmentation of adsorbed ferrocene, Dulip Welipitiya, A. Green, J.P. Woods, Peter A. Dowben, Brian W. Robertson, Dongjin Byun, and Jiandi Zhang

1995

Microstructure of the Cr underlayer and its effect on Sm-Co//Cr thin films, Yi Liu, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, Sy_Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer

High resolution electron microscopy and nano-probe study of CoSm/Cr films, Yi Liu, David J. Sellmyer, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, and Sy_Hwang Liou

Incorporation of Zn in GaAs during organometallic vapor phase epitaxy growth compared to equilibrium, W. Reichert, C.Y. Chen, W.M. Li, Jeffrey E. Shield, R.M. Cohen, D.S. Simons, and P.H. Chi

1994

Nanostructures of Sm-Co on Cr thin films, Yi Liu, B.W. Robertson, Z.S. Shan, S. Malhotra, M.J. Yu, S.K. Renukunta, Sy_Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer

NMR and NQR study of the electronic and structural properties of Al-Cu-Fe and Al-Cu-Ru quasicrystals, A. Shastri, F. Borsa, D.R. Torgeson, Jeffrey E. Shield, and A.I. Goldman

1993

Magnetization reversal in Co/Cr multilayer films, D. Wang, Roger D. Kirby, B.W. Robertson, and David J. Sellmyer

1991

Identification of tetragonal and cubic structures of zirconia using synchrotron x-radiation source, Ram Srinivasan, Robert J. De Angelis, Gene Ice, and Burtron H. Davis