Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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Design of a novel bioreactor for rotator cuff tendon tissue engineering
(2018)Rotator cuff tears are a common cause of pain and disability due to injury and degradation of rotator cuff tendons. More than 250,000 patients require surgery each year, a majority of whom are over the age of 40. The current ... -
The design of an experimental set up for the testing and characterization of mechanical face seals
(2021-07-23)This thesis was centered on the design and manufacture of an experimental set up for the characterization of sintered silicon carbide mechanical face seals utilized in the oil and gas industry. The design process was focused ... -
The Design of an Experimental Setup to Characterize Metal Stem Seals
(2020)Modernization has brought use of machinery in most industrial sectors to home use. Equipment used in the food industry, medical industry, construction, defense, aircraft, automotive, and energy industries utilizes the ... -
The design of an experimental testing fixture to test seals of various geometries exposed to extreme operational conditions while operating in dynamic rectilinear motion
(2023-05-12)Radial reciprocating seals are available in a multitude of materials and physical configurations. The most used seal configuration is a circular cross section polymer ring shaped seal, O-ring seal. While affordable and ... -
Design of Continuity Connections for Precast, Pretensioned Girders Using Ultra-High Performance Concrete
(2023-05-12)In recent years, an increased desire to improve the durability and resiliency of bridges has become an important consideration in design. Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is a relatively new cementitious composite ... -
Design of Precast Post-tensioned Slabs using Lightweight Concrete for Residential Foundations
(2024-05-10)The use of precast concrete in construction is highly favored due to its many benefits, including improved quality control, reduced construction time, increased durability, and sustainability. In Oklahoma, post-tensioned ... -
Design of single plate framing connections
(1992)The single plate framing connection is one of the simplest and most economical beam to column or beam to girder connections. The connection is comprised of a single plate, with either prepunched or predrilled bolt holes ... -
Design strategies to minimize waste
(2023-05-13)This research study is focused on obtaining waste minimization strategies that designers can apply to their projects. With a rapid increase in construction recently, the high production of waste produced is dumped in ... -
Design, Characterization, and Additive Manufacturing of Shape Memory Composites
(2020)Direct Ink Writing (DIW) is an additive manufacturing method that utilizes a reservoir of fluid that is precisely extruded to construct 3-Dimensional (3D) structures from layering 2-Dimensional (2D) patterns. Fluids used ... -
Design, Development, and Characterization of a Low Velocity Impact System
(2023-05-12)This paper introduces low-velocity impacts (LVI), presents a concept for evaluating them, tests various materials for proof-of-concept, and discusses how the machine could be used in future university projects as well as ... -
Designated Market Areas (DMAs) and Severe Weather Coverage: Oklahoma-Based Broadcast Meteorologists and Their Decisions for Providing Live, On-Air Coverage of Tornado Warned Storms
(2020)After the devastating severe weather outbreak in Oklahoma and surrounding states on 20-22 May 2019, it seemed appropriate to study the way broadcast meteorologists communicate severe weather risks to various communities, ... -
Designing a Substrate Heater for Thin-Film Deposition in High Vacuum
(2020)This thesis outlines the design of a custom substrate heater for use in physical vapor deposition of laboratory thin films. Traditional substrate heaters bring a substrate to temperature through a reliance on the conductive ... -
Designing and Characterizing Negative Stiffness Devices for Apparent Weakening and Vertical Isolation
(2020-05)Nonlinear systems leveraging the effects of negative stiffness can exhibit beneficial qualities for passive seismic mitigation in structures. Such systems can be achieved by placing nonlinear devices displaying negative ... -
Designing Coupled Engineered Systems Under Uncertainty
(2020-05)The evolving technology and state of art research have provided various platforms for transforming engineering design by merging product and process design with materials. This merger gives us an extended design space and ... -
Designing Reliable Machine Learning Algorithms for Early Prediction of Preeclampsia
(2021-08)Known as a pregnancy complication due to high blood pressure and may be accompanied by damage to another organ system, preeclampsia afflicts between 3 and 6 percent of US pregnancies each year. Studies have shown the ... -
Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War
(2020-05-08)Most historians of the Civil War have neglected Indian Territory. Those historians who write on the Indian Territory Civil War, like Annie Abel and Mary Jane Warde, focus on tribal political intrigue or the effect of the ... -
Destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments: implications of the toxic triangle on moral disengagement, ethical sensemaking and ethical decision-making
(2023)Leadership research contributes to our understanding of organizational and societal successes and failures as well as subordinate behavior, however, much of this literature focuses on positive leaders. While the literature ... -
DETAILED LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF A COMPLETE WOODFORD SHALE OUTCROP SECTION IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
(2017-08)This work presents a detailed rock-based and stratigraphic documentation of an unpublished and recently discovered Woodford Shale outcrop in the south flank of the Arbuckle Mountains (southern Oklahoma). The exposed section ... -
DETECTABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY IN-LINE PHASE CONTRAST PROTOTYPE FOR DENSE BREASTS
(2018-12-14)The primary objective of the research in this thesis is to evaluate the performance of the high-energy in-line phase contrast prototype with the conventional mammography along with ultrasound systems in the detection of ... -
Detection of Overshooting Cloud Tops with Convolutional Neural Networks
(2020-05-08)Overshooting cloud tops can cause severe weather conditions, such as aviation turbulence, lightning, strong winds, heavy rainfall, hail, and tornadoes. Due to hazards caused by overshooting tops, several methods have been ...