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Graduate Studies: Mechanical Engineering Seminars

Fall 2007, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date Speaker Seminar Title
Sept. 21 Ryan Beaumont Direct numerical simulation of transition over realistic stenotic geometries
Sept. 28 Dominique Corriveau

Experimental Investigation into the Fatigue Life of Hybrid Joints under Fully Reversed Loading

Oct. 19 Prof. Bhaganagar Direct numerical simulation as a tool to study natural systems
Oct. 26 Keith Berube Field Monitoring of Bridges
Nov. 2
Nov. 9 Kyle Spratt Design of a Torsional Wave Sensor
Nov. 16 J. Kaitlyn Allen Population Dynamics of Right Whales in the Gulf of Maine
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Dec. 7 Mehmet Sen Proper orthogonal decomposition methodology to understand underlying physics of rough-wall turbulent boundary layer

 

Spring 2007, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date Speaker Seminar Title
Feb 2 Lin Lin Slow Wave Detectability Through Reflections at an Interface
Feb 16 Mick Peterson Development of Total Management of Racing and Training Surfaces for Equine Athletes
Feb 23 Adam McNaughton

Processing and High Temperature Compression Testing of Monolithic Silicon Carbide (SiC)

Mar 30 Doug Read Naval Architecture, Wave Resistance, and Stuff (abstract)
Apr 6 Dominique Corriveau

Experimental Investigation into the Fatigue Life of Hybrid Joints Under Fully Reversed Loading for Use in Naval Vessels

Apr 13 Prof. Senthil Vel Multiscale Analysis -- Background and Overview
Apr 20 Andy Goupee

Multiscale Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials
(abstract)

May 18 Jean Paul Kabche, Ph.D. Testing and Modeling of Fabric in Inflatable Structures

Fall 2006, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date Speaker Seminar Title
Oct. 20 J. Kaitlyn Allen Creating a Mortal Shipstrike Risk Assessment for Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy (abstract)

Oct. 27

Kate Beaumont

Impact Testing of Large Composite Hull Panels for the Mark V.1
Nov. 17 Chris Malm Finite Element Analysis of Airbeams
Dec. 1 Andy Goupee

Multiscale Analysis and Design of Functionally Graded Materials: Macroscopic Transient Analysis of Arbitrary 2D Geometries (abstract)

Dec. 8

Mehmet Sen

Turbulent Flow Analysis for rough-surface using Snapshot Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) (abstract)

Dec. 15 Ashuman Singh

Spring 2006

Date Speaker Seminar Title
     

Feb. 17

Vince Cacesse

Overview of Aerospace and Ship Structures Research

Feb. 24 Christie Mahaffey Qualitative GIS Modeling of Shipstrike Risk in the US Gulf of Maine

Mar. 10

Becky Woodward

Ph.D. Defense: SIFTING OUT THE SECRETS OF THE SEINERS OF THE SEA: USING MORPHOLOGY, OSTEOLOGY, AND DTAG DATA TO COMPARE SWIM PERFORMANCE IN FOUR SPECIES OF BALEEN WHALES

Mar. 24 Jacques Nader Probabilistic Finite Element Analysis of Tension Test for Marine Grade Composite 

Mar. 31

Andy Goupee

Optimization of Functionally Graded Plate Material Composition in Three Dimensions
April 7 Chris Malm  
Apr. 14 Rajeev Baskiyar Thermoelastic analysis of functionally graded tubes’
April 21 Don Bragg  
April 28 Jean-Paul Kabche Ph.D. Defense: Structural Testing and Analysis of Hybrid Composite/Metal Joints for High-Speed Marine Structures
May 5 Wenjin Luo  

Fall 2005

Date Speaker Seminar Title

August 12

Jose Daniel Melo

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

“Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Composite Materials”

Sept. 16

Various

"Organizational Meeting Structure and Pizza at Pat's"

Sept. 23

Keith Berube

"Variability in Flexural Response of E-Glass/Vinyl Ester Composites Fabricated using the VARTM Process"

Oct. 7

Eric Landis

Strength of Materials: Is Continuum Mechanics Obsolete

Oct. 21

Aaron Cohen

Zachry Professor of Engineering, Texas A&M University
The US Space Program Safety and Innovation

Nov. 4

Zhihe Jin

"Some Studies on Fracture of Advanced Materials"

 Nov 18

Michael “Mick” Peterson

“Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Racetrack Sub-Surface Anomalies”

Dec. 2

Ryan Beaumont

 "A Novel Meshing Algorithm for the Fundamental Study of Coronary Artery Disease"

Dec. 9

Jean-Paul Kabche

 
     

Spring 2005

Date Speaker Seminar Title
Jan. 21 Jean-Paul Kabche "Experimental Characterization of Hybrid Composite Metal Joints for Marine Structures"
Jan. 28 Andrew Goupee "Optimization of Natural Frequencies of Bidirectional Functionally Graded Structures"
Feb. 4 Becky Woodward "Experimental Modeling of Large Whale Entanglement Injuries"
Feb. 11 -------------  No Seminar
Feb. 18 Jacob Pelletier "Multi-objective Optimization of Functionally Graded Plates"
Feb. 25 Dr. T. Plona "Slow Waves and Geophysical Exploration"
Mar. 4 & 11  Spring Break
Mar. 18 Prof. James Sucec "Integral Calculation of Turbulent Boundary Layers Including Reynolds Number Effect on Thermal and Velocity Wakes"
Mar. 23-28 Visitors for Faculty Opening
Apr. 1   Seminar Cancelled due to Meeting
Apr. 8 Fadi ElChiti "Development of Design Allowables for Woven Fabric Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites for use in Marine Applications"
Apr. Prof. K. Bhaganagar "Numerical Simulation of turbulence using high performance computing: An overview of ongoing and future research in our group"
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