Materials for engineering components operating at high temperatures during their service like rockets, aero-turbines, automobile engines, nuclear power plants, steam power plants and micro-electronics are often designed ...

Analysis of extremes in a complex interacting hydroclimatic system is challenging due to rarity of events, small sample size, poor state of data or missing data, lack of statistical tools for analyzing observed changes and ...

Remediation of the existing MSW dumpsites has received considerable attention these days and there is an urgent need to address this issue in order to maintain the over hygiene of the urban environment. An approach consisting ...

This thesis is an attempt to understand the characteristics and responses of plasmon phonon coupled dynamics in nanocrystalline structures. An energy based Lagrangian formulation is developed with fundamental field quantities ...

One of the major challenges in space technology is to achieve high resolution imaging of the intended area on demand to meet civilian and military applications. Spacecraft formation flying with coordinated control of smaller ...

The thrust of this thesis is the development of two different kinds of feed-forward control strategy using the semi-active device MR damper to monitor MR damper supply current/voltage. The study develops a feed-forward ...

Understanding the strain rate-dependent strength behavior of rock joints is important since displacement rates along rock joints in field can exceed the suggested displacement rates (0.02 mm/min-0.5 mm/min) for laboratory ...

Shock-shock interactions appearing around hypersonic vehicles are generally complex and often lead to high values of localized pressures and temperatures. This increase in temperature is associated with exceedingly high ...

Use of tensile reinforcement for improving the seismic stability of retaining walls has gained considerable attention in recent times and has become a very common practice. Compared to planar geosynthetic materials, geocells ...

In this thesis, optimal control theory has been applied to design constrained terminal guidance algorithms for interceptor to destroy incoming high speed ballistic targets. There exist several optimal guidance algorithms ...