We present a study of the aeromechanics of highly compliant structures in the context of animal flight, with special attention paid to bat flight. Bats …
Amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) thin film transistors (TFTs) based on In2O3 have attracted much interest for use as pixel switching elements in next generation active-matrix …
Automated estimation of the geometry and appearance of surfaces from aerial imagery is an active research topic with applications in computer vision, remote sensing, robotics …
The discrete dislocation (DD) plasticity is truly mechanism-based plasticity and well-suited for mesoscale modeling in metal. The effects of size-dependent plasticity and plastic dissipation emerge …
This thesis documents a study of the high strain rate deformation behavior of Ni-containing steels of interest to the U.S. Navy for ship structures. A …
Living cells depend on electrochemical potentials across membranes for many crucial cell functions. Electric fields are also used in engineering applications such as the electroporation …
Magnetic dipoles are often called "forbidden" transitions, because their emission rates are generally much lower than electric dipole "allowed" transitions. Spontaneous emission, however, depends not …
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have the potential to introduce significant improvements in fracture strength and toughness of ceramic materials when compared to traditional microscale reinforcements. Ceramic …
Vocal folds are driven in a shear-dominated, wave-like motion at high frequencies (100-1000 Hz) at strains up to 30% during phonation. Damage to the vocal …
The nonlinear deformation response of two distinct materials was studied using finite element simulations. One is the hard Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) widely used …
It is well known that diffusion induced stresses are responsible for capacity fading of electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. Here, we develop an atomistic-based continuum model …
Through the evolution of modern computing platforms, in both hardware and software, processing heavy multimedia content has never been so exciting. While in the hardware …
Compatibility conditions for various strain measures are well known in both small and finite strain kinematics. For many plane deformation problems in solid mechanics, such …
Self-organized pattern formation can be produced by low energy ion bombardment. A continuum theory explains the ion-induced surface morphology evolution in terms of a balance …
In the past decade, power consumption has become the primary factor in overall microprocessor design complexity due to ideal geometric scaling and non-ideal electrical scaling. …
The work presented here describes two major problems: 1) Structural evolution of graphene oxide layers during thermal reduction using combined numerical methods and experimental measurements, …