Key aspects, process parameter effects and sensitivities and design models of the seven manufacturing steps were investigated and developed further. It was determined that the number of reinforcement plies should be ...

To develop LUAM in a methodical manner with minimal risk, a staged approach was devised whereby coupon-level mechanical testing and prototyping utilizing existing equipment was accomplished. Four key tasks have been ...

This thesis combines a number of studies that offer a new unified understanding of historical anomalous mechanical behaviors of glass. These anomalies are interpreted as simply the consequence of slow crack growth and ...

On the soft composite front, the cutting of single ply-reinforced hydrogels is investigated in a sensor-rich testbed comprising of both a load-cell, a submerged hydrophone, and a digital camera. The mapping between the ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques are quickly becoming attractive for fabricating parts ranging from biological tissues to aircraft components. A key challenge in these techniques is controlling the quality of parts ...

Fiber-reinforced soft composites (FrSCs) are an emerging class of composites that are made up of polymeric fibers with specific material properties and hierarchical length-scales, embedded within another soft-polymer matrix. ...

The electrochemical machining study presented in this thesis uses the novel testbed to reveal that phase-controlled waveform interactions between the three assistances affect both the material removal rate (MRR) and surface ...

Specialized Elastomeric Tooling (SET) technology, a patented process, has been shown to effectively replicate properties of composite parts formed by autoclaving while reducing the necessary energy, cost and waste by orders ...