Seminar Series - 1998-1999 Seminars

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Analysis of Single Lap Adhesive Composite Joints with Delaminated Adherends, Minghao Qin, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Ph.D.  Advisor: Dr. Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, April 20, 1999. W 128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

A Shear Deformable Plate Element with Linked Interpolations, Deepu S. Joseph, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S.  Advisor:  Dr. Reinhard Piltner.   Tuesday, April 20, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Japanese Activities on Aerospace Structures, Prof. Kyohei Kondo, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo.  President, The Japanese Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics.  Friday, April 16, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 2:30 p.m.

Thermomechanical Fatigue Analysis of Polymer Composites, Di Wu, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S.  Advisor:  Dr. Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, April 6, 1999.   W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Diffusion of Ultrasound in Concrete, Phanidhar Anugonda, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S.   Advisor:  Dr. Joseph Turner.  Tuesday, April 6, 1999.  W. 128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Developments in Thermopiezoelasticity with Relevance to Smart Composite Structures, Prof. Theodore R. Tauchert, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY   40506.  Monday, March 29, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Materials Evaluation for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Prof. George C. Johnson, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley.  Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 3:30 p.m.

Elongational Flows in Jets, Filaments, Films, and Vortexes:  Rheology and Hydrodynamics, Prof. Alex L. Yarin, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.  Wednesday, March 10, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Modeling of Electrospinning of Polymer Nanofibers:  Stability Analysis of a Single Jet, Alexandre Spivak, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Ph.D. candidate.   Advisor:  Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, March 9, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

3-D Analysis of Composite Structures, Dr. Sergei Yushanov, 3TEX, North Carolina State Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC.  Friday, March 5, 1999.   W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Experimental Analysis of a Single Lap Adhesive Composite Joint Subjected to Quasi-Static and Fatigue Loading, Ian J. Saunders, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Advisor:   Dr. Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, March 2, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall,  3:30 p.m.

Equations for a Piezoelectric Parallelepiped and Piezoelectric Gyroscope, H.Y. Fang, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL. Advisor:  Dr. Qing Jiang, University of California - Riverside.  Tuesday, March 2, 1999.  W128 Nebraska Hall,  3:30 p.m.

Prediction of Fatigue Crack Initiation Using Continuum Damage Mechanics, Dr. Baidurya Bhattacharya, Advanced Analysis Department, American Bureau of Shipping, Houston, TX.   Tuesday, December 15, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

A Continuum Mixture Theory with Internal Constraints for Annulus Fibrosus, Stephen M. Klisch, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco.  Tuesday, December 8, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Towards Optimal Design of Composite I-Beams, Prof. Mark E. Tuttle, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  Tuesday, November 10, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Analytical and Computational Aspects of Finite Plasticity, Prof. Panos Papadopoulos, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.  Monday, October 19, 1998.   W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Statistical Crack Length Distributions in an Anisotropic Bicrystal with a Non-equilibrium Boundary, Yiming Yu, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL. M.S. Thesis Defense.  Advisor:  Dr. M.S. Wu.  Tuesday, October 6, 1998.  W193 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Cracks in Three-Dimensional Polycrystals with Microstructural Stresses, Jingchun Guo, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.   M.S. Thesis Defense.  Advisor:  Dr. M.S. Wu.  Friday, September 18, 1998.  W196 Nebraska Hall, 9:00 a.m.

Acoustic Emission Analysis of Damage Mechanisms in Advanced Composites, Jie Qian, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.    M.S.  Advisor:   Dr. Yuris A. Dzenis.  Tuesday, September 8, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 4:00 p.m.