• Development of Product Recyclability Index Utilizing Design for Assembly and Disassembly Principles 

  Yadav, Darshan P.; Patel, Deep N.; Morkos, Beshoy W. (2018-03-01)

  Designing products for recyclability is driven by environmental and economic goals. Several design for assembly (DFA) rules and parameters can be used to gauge the recyclability index of product designs. These indices can ...

• Keeping up with sea-level rise: Carbonate production rates in Palau and Yap, western Pacific Ocean 

  Van Woesik, Robert; William Cacciapaglia, Christopher (2018-05-08)

  Coral reefs protect islands from tropical storm waves and provide goods and services for millions of islanders worldwide. Yet it is unknown how coral reefs in general, and carbonate production in particular, will respond ...

• Testing methods to mitigate Caribbean yellow-band disease on Orbicella faveolata 

  Randall, Carly J.; Whitcher, Elizabeth M.; Code, Tessa; Pollock, Clayton J.; Lundgren, Ian F.; Hillis-Starr, Zandy Marie; Muller, Erinn M. (2018-05-11)

  Outbreaks of coral diseases continue to reduce global coral populations. In the Caribbean, yellow band is a severe and wide-spread disease that commonly affects corals of the Orbicella spp. complex, significantly impeding ...

• Evaluation of elastic modulus of fiber-reinforced concrete 

  Suksawang, Nakin; Wtaife, Salam; Alsabbagh, Ahmed (2018-03)

  This paper determines the effect of discrete fibers on the elastic modulus of concrete and cement composites. Five types of discrete fibers consisting of steel, polypropylene, macro-polyolefin, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and ...

• Two-Stage Concrete as a Sustainable Production 

  Abdelgader, Hakim Salem; El-Baden, Ali Said Ahmed; Abdurrahman, H. A.; Abdul Awal, A. S.M. (2018-02-14)

  Two-stage concrete (TSC) is a sustainable concrete which is produced by forcing a flowable cement grout mixture through the voids of a skeletal mass made of compacted preplaced aggregates. From the technical and economic ...

• Measuring solid–liquid interfacial energy fields: diffusion-limited patterns 

  Glicksman, Martin E.; Ankit, Kumar (2018-08-01)

  The Leibniz–Reynolds transport theorem yields an omnimetric interface energy balance, i.e., one valid over all continuum length scales. The transport theorem, moreover, indicates that solid–liquid interfaces support ...

• A Robot FDM Platform for Multi-Plane and 3D Lattice Structure Printing 

  Ishak, Ismayuzri Bin (2018-06)

  Additive manufacturing is a process to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) objects usually by joining a material layer by layer. The layer by layer joining process simplifies the fabrication method by slicing the 3D object ...

• Towards Net Zero Energy Buildings: A Parametric Study on Building Energy Performance for Different US Climate Zones 

  Betharte, Owen Geraldo (2018-04)

  A Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) can produce as much energy as it requires over an annual basis. This research investigated the building energy performance of different parameters over six US climate zones to ascertain ...

• Optimizing Dynamic Range for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Resonators 

  Schoeller, Douglas John (2018-07)

  The performance of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is a topic that attracts attention from the scientific community due to their diverse applications. The use of MEMS has been applied to areas of medicine, timing, ...

• An Analysis of the Relationship between Orthopedic Drill Bit and Screw Diameter on Drilling Energy and Axial Loading Strength 

  Baskerville, Scott J. J. (2018-07)

  The number of orthopedic procedures performed per year in the United States is expected to grow to 6.6 million by 2020 (1). Most of these surgeries involve some degree of bone drilling and screw fixation, putting many ...

• Control Laws for Autonomous Landing on Pitching Decks 

  Buchala, Kendrick (2018-07)

  This thesis addresses the problem of landing a quadcopter onto the pitching deck of a ship, as a partial simulation of a shipboard landing during high seas. The deck is modeled to pitch with a sinusoidal motion. While ...

• Development of a Small Diameter Rapid Pressuremeter Test for Unbound Pavement Layer Evaluations 

  Misilo, Thaddeus Joseph (2018-07)

  Six inch and 12 inch long small diameter pressuremeter (SDPMT) probes were developed and tested extensively to determine in situ stress-strain properties of unbound pavement layers. They were deployed in the same hole ...

• Photochemical Crosslinking of Methacrylated Collagen Hydrogels: Effect of I2959 vs. VA086 on Mechanics and Cellular Response 

  Watkins, Kori Elizabeth (2018-07)

  Irgacure 2959 (I2959) is widely used for photochemical crosslinking of a variety of different hydrogels. However, the free radicals generated from I2959 have been reported to be highly cytotoxic. Previous work has shown ...

• An Empirical Path Loss Model for Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in a Library Environment 

  Misilo, Thomas John (2018-07)

  Wireless networks are becoming more commonplace which has necessitated the know-how to optimally place the devices. There have been studies using wireless sensor networks inside of libraries and museums. However, extensive ...

• Direct Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flow through Porous Packs over a wide Range of Reynolds Numbers 

  Jost, Antoine Michael Diego (2018-07)

  Direct numerical simulations of incompressible flow through periodic square/rectangular (two-dimensional; 2-D) and cubic (three-dimensional; 3-D) arrays of particles and periodic random packs of polydisperse spheres over ...

• Infrared Resonant-Coupled Metamaterial Sensing and Phonon-Polariton-Enhanced Infrared Interconnects 

  Finch, Michael Francis (2018-05)

  Coupled-mode theory has been applied to various fields of endeavor from waveguide splitters/combiners and molecular sensing to light-matter interactions. Metamaterials, engineered periodic or aperiodic structures, are ...

• Cost Model Evaluation for Large Scale Additive Manufacturing 

  Piazza, Andrea (2018-06)

  Additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming a valuable option in medium to large scale manufacturing operations, due to the increasing technological advances and popularization of different techniques. Product development ...

• Tornado and Hurricane Hazards: Reconnaissance, Structural Analysis and Vulnerability Modeling 

  Plaz, Fernando Simon (2018-07)

  This thesis is composed of three main projects which are directly linked to wind engineering. Hazards such as tornadoes and hurricanes are natural disasters which causes human and economic losses. First, the study consists ...

• Effect of Cavitation Regimes on Stepped Diesel Injectors 

  Sykes, David Michael (2018-05)

  The objective of this work was to determine the effects of different cavitating flow regimes on a stepped orifice geometry relevant to diesel injectors. Conventional diesel orifice geometries consist of a single tapered ...

• Speech Emotion Recognition using Connectionist Models in a Tandem System 

  Najafi, Mary (2018-05)

  This article presents a tandem Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) system by which 8 archetypal emotions can be differentiated based upon two different types of acoustic features as inputs to Artificial Neural Network (ANN) ...

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