Knauss, Wolfgang Gustav

Committee Member — 50 thesises

• Duong, Cong N. — A nonlinear thermoviscoelastic stress and fracture analysis of an adhesive bond (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heymans, Luc J. — An Engineering Analysis of Polymer Film Adhesion to Rigid Substrates (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ravi-Chandar, K. — An Experimental Investigation into the Mechanics of Dynamic Fracture (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glezer, Ari — An Experimental Study of a Turbulent Vortex Ring (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jackson, Winston Paul — Characterization of Soft Polymers and Gels Using the Pressure-Bulge Technique (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waas, Anthony Marius — Compression Failure of Fibrous Laminated Composites in the Presence of Stress Gradients: Experiment and Analysis (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Paul Wesley, Jr. — Considerations for the Design of Gas-Lubricated Slider Bearings (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jeong, Garrett Duane — Cumulative Damage of Structures Subjected to Response Spectrum Consistent Random Processes (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Daly, Samantha Hayes — Deformation and Fracture of Thin Sheets of Nitinol (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stanley, Elizabeth Ann — Diffusion in Glassy Polymers (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abeyaratne, Rohan Chandra — Discontinuous Deformation Gradients in Plane Finite Elastostatics of Incompressible Materials. (I) General Considerations. (II) An Example (1979, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vahala, Kerry John — Dynamic and Spectral Features of Semiconductor Lasers (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deng, Xiaomin — Dynamic Crack Propagation in Elastic-Plastic Solids (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lambros, John — Dynamic decohesion of bimaterial interfaces (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cheng — Dynamic fracture problems involving highly transient crack growth histories : an investigation of dynamic failure in homgeneous and bimaterial systems (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fey, Kate Elizabeth — Experimental and theoretical aspects of dynamic crack growth along bimaterial interfaces (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Sangwook — Failure of laminated composites at thickness discontinuities under complex loading and elevated temperatures (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonzalez, Javier Gonzalez — Full Field Study of Strain Distribution Near the Crack Tip in the Fracture of Solid Propellants Via Large Strain Digital Image Correlation and Optical Microscopy (1997, Engineer's thesis)
• Chao, Tong Wa — Gaseous Detonation-Driven Fracture of Tubes (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• González Liñero, Luis — Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tao, Min — High Temperature Deformation of Vitreloy Bulk Metallic Glasses and Their Composite (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Moh-jiann — Investigation of Local Geology Effects on Strong Earthquake Ground Motions (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aydiner, Cahit Can — Investigation of Thermal Tempering in Bulk Metallic Glasses (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deng, Tony H. — Measurement of the dynamic bulk compliance of polymers (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Jun — Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass and Its Composite Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovalchick, Christopher — Mechanics of Peeling: Cohesive Zone Law and Stability (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Geubelle, Philippe H. — Nonlinear effects in interfacial fracture (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhu, Weidong — Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Response of Glassy Polymers (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pulos, Guillermo C. — Nonsteady crack propagation and craze behavior in PMMA (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Madhavan, Raghu — On the Collapse of Long Thick-Walled Circular Tubes under Biaxial Loading (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krishnaswamy, Sridhar — On the Domain of Dominance of the Asymptotic Elastodynamic Crack-Tip Fields (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wakugawa, Jason Masao — On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution to the Small-Scale Nonlinear Anti-Plane Shear Crack Problem in Finite Elastostatics (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giezen, Jurgen Johannes — Plastic Buckling of Cylinders Under Biaxial Loading (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Franck, Christian — Quantitative Characterization of 3D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balas, Gary John — Robust Control of Flexible Structures: Theory and Experiments (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Ying — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Digital Image Correlation in Nanomechanics Investigations (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Shiming — Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Silling, Stewart Andrew — Singularities and Phase Transitions in Elastic Solids: Numerical Studies and Stability Analysis (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kubr, Thomas J. — Stresses near a change of thickness in a continuous-fiber-composite plate (1991, Engineer's thesis)
• Moonan, William Kevin — Superposition of the Effects of Time, Temperature, and Pressure in Polymetric Materials (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bernal, Luis Paulino — The Coherent Structure of Turbulent Mixing Layers. I. Similarity of the Primary Vortex Structure. II. Secondary Streamwise Vortex Structure (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ungsuwarungsri, Tawach — The Effect of Strain-Softening Cohesive Material on Crack Stability (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pence, Thomas James — The Emergence and Propagation of a Phase Boundary in an Elastic Bar (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walter, Mark E. — The evolution of damage in ceramic matrix composites (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chai, Herzl — The Growth of Impact Damage in Compressively Loaded Laminates (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chasiotis, Ioannis — The Strength of Polycrystalline Silicon at the Micro- and Nano-Scales with Applications to MEMS (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pfaff, Richard D. — Three-dimensional effects in nonlinear fracture explored with interferometry (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivas, Mullahalli V. — Time dependent failure of thin films (1994, Engineer's thesis)
• Brinson, Lynda Catherine — Time-Temperature Response of Multi-Phase Viscoelastic Solids Through Numerical Analysis (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Connolly, Jeremiah Finbarr — Two Problems in Plane Finite Elastostatics (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))