Browsing by Subject "Nonlinear"
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A Study of Non-Smooth Impacting Behaviors
(2015)The dynamics of impacting components is of particular interest to engineers due to concerns about noise and wear, but is particularly difficult to study due to impact's non-linear nature. To begin transferring concepts studied ... -
An Aeroelastic Evaluation of the Flexible Thermal Protection System for an Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator
(2015)The purpose of this dissertation is to study the aeroelastic stability of a proposed flexible thermal protection system (FTPS) for the NASA Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD). A flat, square FTPS coupon ... -
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Multistable Systems
(2013)The focus of this dissertation is on phenomena exhibited by multistable systems. Two phenomena of particular importance are chaos control and stochastic resonance. In this work, both models that can predict ordered responses ...
