• Active Vibration Control Synthesis Using Viscoelastic Damping Phenomena 

      Vadiraja, G K (2011-07-12)
      In this thesis, a new method is followed to design an active control system which imparts viscoelastic phenomenological damping in an elastic structure. Properties of a hypothetical viscoelastic system are used to design ...
    • Constitutive Theories for Polymers Using Non-Classical Continuum Mechanics 

      Das, Sanhita
      This thesis is on the development of a few constitutive theories characterising the thermo-mechanical response of polymers. In proposing the theories, some aspects of non-classical continuum mechanics are used. The first ...
    • New Solution Methods For Fractional Order Systems 

      Singh, Satwinder Jit (2010-09-24)
      This thesis deals with developing Galerkin based solution strategies for several important classes of differential equations involving derivatives and integrals of various fractional orders. Fractional order calculus finds ...
    • Partial Slip Contacts in Linear Viscoelasticity 

      Dayalan, Satish Kumar (2017-10-05)
      This work analyzes partial slip contact problems in the theory of linear viscoelasticity using both the semi-analytical method and nite element method. Such problems arise in metal-polymer contacts in orthopedic implants ...