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Improving the Effectiveness of End-of-Use Product Recovery: Operations Planning, Consumer Behavior and Design Guidelines
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
As market demand for remanufactured products increases and environmental legislations call for more restrict enforcements on original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), remanufacturing is becoming an important business. ...
Dynamics of Finite Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Phononic materials (PMs) are artificially engineered materials that exhibit a periodic variation in their mechanical or geometric properties which culminate in unprecedented bulk properties which are not readily available ...
Application of smart materials in energy harvesting and wave propagation
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This work studies two main applications for smart materials; Energy harvesting and wave propagation. For the first application, we look at utilization of piezoelectric materials in generating electricity at small scale and ...
Vesicles in Magnetic Fields
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
This work investigates the dynamics of liposome vesicles in a static magnetic field. Based on a scaling analysis, a simple governing equation for the magnetic field is derived from the Maxwell equations. An immersed interface ...
Multi-physics Modeling and Analysis in 3D Printing of Multi-scale, Multi-functional and Multi-material Porous Structures
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Porous structures have broad applications in different fields, and the fabrication methods have evolved for decades. With the combination of inkjet printing and ice-template technique, the selective freezing three-dimensional ...
Design and Implementation of Iterative Learning Control for Quad-Rotor UAV's Tracking
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
An iterative learning control design method is presented to improve the unmanned aerial vehicle's tracking performance. Iterative learning control is a feed forward control method that aims to improve the performance through ...
Development of a Gripping Fixture for Micro-Tensile Testing of Bonded Ceramic Dumbbells
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
It is proposed that both the adhesive interface geometry and the mismatch of elastic moduli influence the tensile strengths of dental bonds attaching restorative ceramics to dentin. Prior calculations indicate this to be ...
Energy scavenging and wave manipulation in linear and nonlinear dynamical systems
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This dissertation presents results in two broad, inter-related areas. The first three chapters deal with modeling and analysis of electro-mechanical vibratory systems and harvesting ambient oscillatory energy. The final ...
Size-dependent Elastic Behavior of Micro Scale Copper Beams
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
To investigate single crystal copper elastic behavior in micro-scale, microcantilevers with the beam axis having a [11 ̅0] orientation and thicknesses ranging from 5.41μm to 0.74μm were fabricated by focus ion beam (FIB) ...
The role of mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in detection of confinements at ECM
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Cellular response to confinement at the extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an important role during tissue development. Mishandling these mechanical signals results in a variety of diseases including cardiovascular disease ...