Mechanical and Materials Engineering Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Numerical Modelling of Transport in Complex Porous Media: Metal Foams to the Human Lung, Christopher T. DeGroot
Development of a Compact Piezoworm Actuator For Mr Guided Medical Procedures, Khaled El Bannan
Numerical investigation of highly curved turbulent flows in centrifugal compressors and in a simplified geometry, Kevin J. Elliott
Studies in shallow and thin-film flows, MD Mahmuder R. Faisal
Quantification of bone and cement strains surrounding a distal ulnar implant with varying cement-stem interface conditions, Sayward R. Fetterly
An Experimental Investigation on the Flow Behaviour in a Transpired Air Collector, David Greig
Development of Novel Solar Tracking and Heat Extracting Technologies, Hassan Latif Hassan
Optimal Inertial Sensor Placement and Motion Detection for Epileptic Seizure Patient Monitoring, Babak Kamalizonouzi
Experimental and Numerical Study of Flow Structures Associated with Low Aspect Ratio Elliptical Cavities, Taravat Khadivi
The Near Wake of a European Starling, Adam J. Kirchhefer
An Automated Lab-on-a-CD System for Parallel Whole Blood Analyses, Tingjie Li
Mechanical Instability of Thin Solid Film Structures, Masoud Noroozi
Synthesis of silicide nanomaterials using chemical vapour deposition method, Hamid Norouzi Banis
Controlled Synthesis of One Dimensional Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications as Catalyst Supports in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Mohammad Norouzi Banis
Investigation of the Use of Micro-Mechanical Testing to Analyze the Mechanical Anisotropy of the Zr-2.5%Nb Pressure Tube Alloy, Richard O. Oviasuyi
Parametric Study on a Novel Waste Heat Recovery System, Ghaleb Rustom Abdul Sater
Experimental Investigation of the Fluid Temperature Field and the Thermal Performance of Insert Devices in a Flat-Plate Solar Collector, Gurveer Singh Sandhu
Consistent Density Scanning and Information Extraction From Point Clouds of Building Interiors, Kuldeep Kumar Sareen
Characterization of Solar Roadways Via Computational and Experimental Investigations, Rajesh Kanna Selvaraju
Structure-Property Relationships of Magnesium Alloys, Pouya Sharifi
An experimental investigation into the relationship between process variables and forming conditions during splined mandrel flow forming operations, Brandon C. Vriens
Improved Non-Linear Solution of Dip Coating Flow, Omar Bin Yusuf
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Mechanistic Mixed-Mode Failure Criterion for Continuous Fiber-Polymer Composites, Thomas P. Bruce
Convection Due to Spatially Distributed Heating, Mohammad Zakir Hossain
Synthesis of One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Carbon Based Nanomaterials, Mihnea Ioan Ionescu
Exploring Bacterial Nanowires: From Properties to Functions and Implications, Kar Man Leung
Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Point Cloud Data via Progressive Local Mesh Matching, Ji Ma
On Developing Novel Energy-Relates Nanostructured Materials by Atomic Layer Deposition, Xiangbo Meng
Development of Novel Nanomaterials for High-Performance and Low-Cost Fuel Cell Applications, Shuhui Sun
Synthesis and Characterization of One- and Two-Dimensional Novel Nanomaterials, Yu Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Collision Detection and Merging of Deformable B-Spline Surfaces in Virtual Reality Environment, Harish Pungotra