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1. Engineered Biological Construction Material: Self-healing Concrete and Self-healing Carbon Negative Enzymatic Construction Materials (ECM)

Keyword:: Enzyme, Construction Materials, Self healing Concrete, Carbon Negative, Decarbonation, and Mineralization
Creator:: Wang, Shuai
Advisor:: Rahbar, Nima
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

2. Quasi-Static Griffith Fracture Evolution with Boundary Loads

Keyword:: Energy Drops, Boundary Loads, Free Discontinuity Problem, Quasi-Static Fracture Evolution, and Neumann Boundary Conditions
Creator:: Yousefi, Pooya
Advisor:: Larsen, Christopher J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-05-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Mathematical Sciences

3. Interfacial Adhesion and Deformation Mechanisms in Hard and Soft Materials using Molecular Dynamics

Keyword:: Materials interface, additive manufacturing, cold spray, molecular dynamics, adhesion, and drug delivery
Creator:: Navabi, Arvand
Advisor:: Rahbar, Nima and Soboyejo, Winston
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-05-06
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

4. Characterization and Functionalization of Lyophilized Silk Scaffolds for Use in 3D In Vitro Disease Modeling

Keyword:: Biomaterials, Kidney Cancer, Tissue Engineering, and Liver Disease
Creator:: Abbott, Alycia
Advisor:: Coburn, Jeannine M
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-07-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

5. Applications of Machine Learning in Real-time Brain Tissue Strain Estimation

Keyword:: Concussion, Brain Injury, Convolutional Neural Network, Deep Learning, and Finite Element
Creator:: Ghazi, Kianoosh
Advisor:: Ji, Songbai
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-08-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

6. Mechanics of Biological Materials: A Theoretical and Computational Approach Using Machine Learning and Finite Element Analysis

Creator:: Ashouri Choshali, Habibeh
Advisor:: Rahbar, Nima and Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

7. Mechanical Regulation of Cell Death

Creator:: Goldblatt, Zachary
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-11-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

8. Defining the Multiscale Relationship between Subject-Specific Bone Strain and Structural Adaptation in the Distal Radius of Women

Keyword:: Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT), Finite Element (FE), High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HRpQCT), Distal Radius, Exercise, and Bone Adaptation
Creator:: Mancuso, Megan E
Advisor:: Troy, Karen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-08-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

9. Advanced Bioinspired Approaches to Strengthen and Repair Concrete

Keyword:: Concrete healing, Bioinspired, Carbonic anhydrase enzyme, Auxetic composites, Architected materials, and Concrete composites
Creator:: Rosewitz, Jessica A.
Advisor:: Rahbar, Nima
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-04-23
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

10. Development and utilization of a Raman characterization method for Hydrothermal char

Creator:: Brown, Avery B
Advisor:: Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2020-01-21
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Chemical Engineering