A phase sensitive measurement technique that permits the simultaneous determination
of two independent thermal properties of thin dielectric films is presented. Applying the technique results in a film's thermal diffusivity and effusivity, from which the thermal conductivity and specific heat can be calculated. The technique involves measuring a specimen's front...
Recent concern over the potential environmental impact of highway construction
and repair materials on surface and ground waters has lead to extensive laboratory
screening and subsequent testing of a set of new materials and waste amended mixes. As
part of Phase II of a three-phase project for the National Cooperative...
Reliable controller designs have been developed in this thesis for a number of finite-horizon
and infinite-horizon problems with possibly non-zero initial conditions. These
reliable controllers assure that system stability and system performance will be
maintained despite certain system faults. The performance measure used in this thesis is
an "H[subscript ∞]-like...