Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Department of
Department of Engineering Mechanics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
PhD candidates: You are welcome and encouraged to deposit your dissertation here, but be aware that
1) it is optional, not required (the ProQuest deposit is required); and
2) it will be available to everyone on the internet; there is no embargo for dissertations in the UNL Digital Commons.
Master's candidates: Deposit of your thesis or project is required. (If an embargo [restricted access] is necessary, you may deposit the thesis at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/embargotheses/ — but only after getting the prior approval of your department and the Graduate Office; contact Terri Eastin < teastin1@unl.edu >).
All depositors: We try to observe a 24-hour "cooling off" period to give you opportunity to correct those "oops" issues that seem to emerge just after deposit.
Upon deposit, you will immediately receive an email that your submission has been received (and this is what you need to show the Graduate Office).
However, you can still log back in and select Revise and upload a new version with your advisor's name spelled right, or your mother thanked in the Acknowledgments, or whatever you're stressing about.
After about a day, your submission will be "published" or "posted," making it available on the internet; you will get another email to that effect, and your submission can no longer be changed by you.
If further changes are needed, these can be made by sending a revised file to the administrator < sgardner2@unl.edu > requesting replacement of the current online version.
DO NOT RESUBMIT YOUR THESIS / DISSERTATION. That creates duplicate records, confusion, wasted effort, frustration, sadness, tears, and causes kittens to get sick.
Finally: Congratulations; you are almost there. Click the "Submit your paper or article" link at the bottom of the gray box at left. Follow the instructions.
You should be able to copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) most fields.
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When you reach the question "Was this submission previously published in a journal?", just skip that part.
Be sure to click the "Submit" button at the bottom. Files upload at the rate of about 5 Mb per minute, so if you have a really large file, it may take a bit of time.
If your file exceeds 40 Mb, think about reducing its size--there are many ways; Google "reduce pdf file size" to find some.
2023
Characterization of Interlayer Laser Shock Peening during Fused Filament Fabrication of Polylactic Acid (PLA), Fabien Denise
Applications of Femtosecond Laser-Processed and Nanoneedle-Synthesized Surfaces to Enhance Pool Boiling Heat Transfer, Peter Efosa Ohenhen
2018
Evaluation of Deformable Posts in the ZOI and Rigid Posts in Stiff Soil, Thomas Ammon
Development of Iowa Dot Combination Bridge Separation Barrier with Bicycle Railing, Chaz M. Ginger
Temperature and Stress Analysis during Tank Decanting and Refilling Process, Zhe Liu
2016
Coercivity Enhancement and Gamma Phase Avoidance of Alnico Alloys, Li Zhang
2015
FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN POROUS MATERIALS: EXPERIMENTS & COMPUTER SIMULATION, Zhanping Xu
2014
Understanding the Effects of Blast Wave on the Intracranial Pressure and Traumatic Brain Injury in Rodents and Humans Using Experimental Shock Tube and Numerical Simulations, Aravind Sundaramurthy
2013
ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION AND SCATTERING IN PEARLITIC STEEL, Hualong Du
Mechanics of blast loading on post-mortem human and surrogate heads in the study of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) using experimental and computational approaches, Shailesh Govind Ganpule
The Role of Mechanically Induced ERK Phosphorylation in Stem Cell Adipogenesis, Daniel E. Menter
KOLSKY BAR EXPERIMENT FOR HIGH-RATE LARGE DEFORMATIONS OF POLYCARBONATE, Jason G. Vogeler
KOLSKY BAR EXPERIMENT FOR HIGH-RATE LARGE DEFORMATIONS OF POLYCARBONATE, Jason Gerald Vogeler
PROPAGATION OF THERMO-MECHANICAL WAVES IN DEFORMING NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC BODIES, Lili Zhang
2012
IMPLEMENTATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES, Thomas Boulet
Propagation of Ultrasound through Freshly Excised Human Calvarium, Armando Garcia Noguera
Control of 1,4-Anthraquinone Crystal Growth, Tyler Holm
Peridynamic models for dynamic brittle fracture, Wenke Hu
Vibrations of Crystal Plates with Surface Structures for Resonator and Sensor Applications, Nan Liu
Magnetic Properties Study of the Mn-Al System with Additions of B or C and Mechanical Milling Techniques, Timothy E. Prost
Fabrication and Characterization of Biocomposites from Polylactic Acid and Bamboo Fibers, Sarah E. Royse
2011
A Peridynamic Formulation for Transient Heat Conduction in Bodies with Evolving Discontinuities, Monchai Duangpanya
Ultrasonic and Stereo-Optical Characterization Techniques for Applications in Mechanical Testing, Jonathan M. Hein
A Shock Tube Technique for Blast Wave Simulation and Studies of Flow Structure Interactions in Shock Tube Blast Experiments, Nicholas N. Kleinschmit
Ultrasonic Methods for the Characterization of Complex Materials and Material Systems: Polymers, Structured Polymers, Soft Tissue and Bone, Charles Landais
Effect of Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Protein Micropatterns on the Behavior of Human Neuroblastoma Cells, Ishwari Poudel
Strength of Polycrystalline Ceramics under Shock Compression, Jianbin Zhu
2010
NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL VERIFICATION OF A MULTISCALE COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR IMPACT PROBLEMS IN HETEROGENEOUS VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS WITH EVOLVING DAMAGE, Bruno Bachiega Araujo
Time Dependence of Self-Assembly Process For the Formation of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Nanolayers, Alexandre Dhôtel
CHARACTERIZATION, MODELING, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DEVELOPMENT DURING PLASTIC FLOW OF LARGE ANISOTROPY IN THE WAVE-SPEEDS, Quentin Fichot
MECHANICAL MILLING OF CO-RICH MELT-SPUN SM-CO ALLOYS, Farhad Reza Golkar-Fard
Nanomanufacturing and Analysis of Novel Integrated Continuous Nanofibers, John E. Hannappel
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SHOCK TUBES FOR LABORATORY SCALE BLAST WAVE SIMULATION, Aaron D. Holmberg
ANOMALOUS LOSS OF TOUGHNESS OF WORK TOUGHENED POLYCARBONATE, Shawn E. Meagher
Hybrid Nanomanufacturing Process for High-Rate Polymer Nanofiber Production, Chad T. Peterson
COUPLED DEM-FEM FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF GRANULAR SYSTEMS IN BENDING, Kitti Rattanadit
Diffuse Ultrasonic Scattering in Advanced Composites, Christer Stenström
Fracture of Bone Using Microindentation, Séverine Vennin
2009
Thermodynamically consistent large deformation constitutive model for glassy polymers, Ashwani Kumar Goel
Self-Organized Nanolayers of Organosilane Molecules, Ocelio V. Lima
Multiscale Modeling of Impact on Heterogeneous Viscoelastic Solids with Evolving Microcracks, Flavio V. Souza
The Effects of Combined Compression and Aging on the Properties of Glassy Polycarbonate, Kyle W. Strabala
Multiscale Modeling of Glass Fiber Reinforced Viscoelastic Polymers Subjected to Impact Loads, Victor Ferreira Teixeira