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Fatigue Testing and Design of Large Diameter Shear Studs Used in Highway Bridges 

Mundie, Daniel (2011-07-19)
Headed studs are commonly used to transfer shear forces along the interface of the steel beam and concrete deck in composite highway bridge girders. Typical stud diameters used in composite bridge design are less than 1". ...

Fault Detection and Diagnostic Test Set Minimization 

Shukoor, Mohammed Ashfaq (2009-02-16)
The objective of the research reported in this thesis is to develop new test generation algorithms using mathematical optimization techniques. These algorithms minimize test vector sets of a combinational logic circuit for ...

Fault Detection and Exclusion in Deeply Integrated GPS/INS Navigation 

Clark, Benjamin (2012-12-04)
This dissertation presents a novel fault detection and exclusion method in a centralized deeply integrated GPS/INS navigation system. The method presented is also demonstrated in a centralized vector tracking GPS ...

Fault Detection in Pressure Swing Adsorption Systems 

Amiri, Farshad (2019-04-16)
Over the years, there has been a consistent increase in the amount of data collected by systems and processes in many different industries and fields. On the other hand, there is a growing push towards revealing and ...

Feasibility of Growing Pierce’s Disease Tolerant American and French-American Hybrid Bunch Grape Cultivars and Advanced Grape Selections in Alabama 

Hu, Yilanna (2013-01-09)
Eleven Pierce’s Disease (PD) tolerant American and French-American hybrid bunch grape cultivars including ‘Black Spanish’, ‘Blanc du Bois’, ‘Champanel’, ‘Conquistador’, ‘Cynthiana’, ‘Favorite’, ‘Lake Emerald’, ‘Stover’, ...

Feasibility of Hard Clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, Culture in Grand Bay, Alabama 

Jackson, Jonathan (2008-08-15)
The northern hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, has proven to be a profitable aquaculture species along the Eastern seaboard as well as the west coast of Florida. The potential for M. mercenaria aquaculture in the North ...

The Feasibility of Using Alternative Fuels to Produce Portland Cement 

Thompson, Rutherford (2012-02-08)
The production of cement involves a combination of numerous raw materials, strictly monitored system processes, and temperatures on the order of 1500 °C. Immense quantities of fuel are required for the production of ...

Feasibility Studies on the Design and Usage of Steel Pile Piles for ALDOT Bridges 

Sharma, Rosy (2023-08-09)
Large diameter steel pipe piles provide an efficient and cost-effective alternative to conventional reinforced concrete bridge piles (drilled shafts) and steel piles (HP-piles). The steel pipe columns offer increased ...

Feasibility Study for a Novel Micropump Design That Utilizes Shape Memory Alloy Diaphragm and Blood Flow 

Thrasher, Mark (2010-08-05)
Many different types of micropumps have been designed to pump a variety of fluids at the micro-liter level. Some of the major short-comings of these designs are leaks due to moving parts, lack of tolerance to bubbles, ...

Feasibility Study of Human Lumbar Motion using Variability Techniques 

Pawar, Yuvraj (2011-04-20)
More than 80 percent of people suffer from low back pain at some point in their lifetime. It is one of the most prevalent musculoskeletal disorders in the United States. The pain can be short-lived or long-lasting. In ...

Feasibility Study of Ultrasound Measurements on the Human Lumbar Spine 

Pothuganti, Virabadra (2006-12-15)
This study is a part of a research project that aims to measure the variation in the intervertebral distance of patients that are subjected to lumbar flexion-distraction chiropractic manipulation. The purpose of this ...

Feathers at a fine scale 

Shawkey, Matthew (2005-08-15)
In 1668, Antoine von Leeuwenhoek improved the crude microscopes that were being produced in Europe to better study small biological objects (Madigan et al. 1997). Although von Leeuwenhoek 's microscope revolutionized ...

Feature Enhancement and Performance Evaluation of BioPig Analytics 

Shi, Lizhen (2016-01-27)
Next-Generation sequencing produces huge collections of strings to be analyzed. This massive dataset challenges traditional analytics tools and increasingly requires novel solutions adapting to big data platforms. MapReduce ...

A Feature-based Solution for Kidnapped Robot Problem 

Wei, Lei (2015-12-11)
The Kidnapped Robot problem in robotics commonly refers to a situation where an autonomous robot can’t locate itself against the map. It can be caused by external force when a robot is carried to an arbitrary place, or ...

A Feedback Linearization Approach for Panel Flutter Suppression with Piezolectric Actuation 

Onawola, Oluseyi (2008-12-15)
A panel is subject to dynamic instability when induced aerodynamic loads under the supersonic/hypersonic environment result in a self-excited oscillation called panel flutter. The panel of an aircraft that flies at ...

Feeder Allocation Policy for a Turret Head Placement Machine Using Dynamic Programming 

Ramaswamy, Harish-Krishna (2005-12-15)
The first objective of this thesis is to determine a feeder carriage allocation policy for a turret head placement machine. The feeder allocation problem deals with determining which component types have to be allocated ...

Feeding ecology and lethal thermal tolerances among selected North American freshwater mussels (Order: Unionida) 

Fogelman, Kaelyn (2022-05-04)
Sixty-five percent of North American unionid mussel species are considered imperiled. Knowledge gaps persist in unionid feeding ecology and lethal thermal tolerance limits which could aid in the conservation and management ...

Feeding Ecology of Pest Mole Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscus spp.) and Associated Damage to Turfgrass 

Xu, Yao (2012-07-18)
Two omnivorous species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae), Scapteriscus vicinus Scudder and S. borellii Giglio-Tos, are introduced subterranean pests that cause damage to turfgrass by feeding and tunneling in ...

Fellowship House, Inc. Low Intensity Transitional Apartment Program: An Outcome Analysis 

Dickerson, Asha (2014-07-29)
The Fellowship House, Inc. Low Intensity Transitional Apartment Program is a residential program designed to fit the needs of adults diagnosed with substance dependence and other mental illnesses. This study sought to ...

'Fellowship of sense with all that breathes': Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, War, and the Environment 

Seidman, Amie C. (2011-04-29)
In “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” environmental historian William Cronon writes that in order to live responsibly with nature, we must learn to recognize nature in our own backyards. ...