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The Interaction of Fire Refugia and Climate Refugia: A Case Study within California’s Diablo Mountain Range

Creator:: Turk, Douglas E.
Abstract:: As climate change contributes to larger and more severe wildfires in California, areas of fire refugia – considered unburned and low-severity burn patches – are playing an increasingly important role in sustaining ecosystem resilience, maintaining biodiversity, and supporting post-disturbance recovery. At the same time, climate refugia – which are areas...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pre-Prototyping Framework: An Early Design Prototyping Methodology for Human-Centered Products and Workplaces

Creator:: Ahmed, Salman
Abstract:: Prototyping is a crucial step in product design and development, but it is also known as the highest sunk cost. The top 20 Research and Development (R&D) department spends 142 billion dollars, yet 40 to 46 percent of this money goes into developing products that cannot even make to the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Irrigation Innovations to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

Creator:: Al-agele, Hadi A.
Abstract:: The first part of the dissertation chronicles irrigation technology changes to progressively improve water application efficiency, water use efficiency, irrigation water productivity and crop production. Technological innovation in irrigation, from 6000 BC to present, has been driven by an unchanging need to provide support for growing populations. The first irrigation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Measuring Tomato Production and Water Productivity in Agrivoltaic Systems

Creator:: Al-agele, Hadi A.
Abstract:: Growing populations and industrialization rates across the world are leading to increased food and energy demand. The challenge of meeting this demand while also mitigating climate change impacts serves as a driving force for the development of renewable energies technologies. This study focuses on the role of Agrivoltaic systems in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Machine Learning Applied to Non-periodic Event Detection – A Special Case in Structural Health Monitoring

Creator:: Hu, Congcong
Abstract:: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is known as the process of implementation of damage detection and characterization strategy. The method is widely used in modern critical equipment to minimize the risk of failures. While a significant effort has been devoted by researchers for the detection of faults in situations including periodic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Eco-hydrology of Tropical Peatlands Associated with Land Cover Changes

Creator:: Kurnianto, Sofyan
Abstract:: Tropical peatlands play an important role in global climate system by storing an immense of carbon that had been accumulated over thousands of years. Peatlands provide another important ecosystem service by regulating the hydrology. It is believed that peatlands act like a giant sponge by absorbing substantial amounts of water...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Lasers in the Sky : Distributed Temperature Sensing and a Micro-Meteorological Approach to Quantifying Evapotranspiration

Creator:: Predosa, Robert
Abstract:: Lower atmospheric flux measurements are a difficult subset of atmospheric data to accurately collect. The interplay of cost, precision, specialty, resolution and repeatability compound an already difficult experimental problem. In response to this, a new, novel instrumentation approach to measuring within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is introduced. The combination...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Composite Tools and Optimization in Racecars to Reduce Mass and Design Time

Creator:: Wagoner, Marshall
Abstract:: Designing a carbon fiber chassis for the Global Formula Race car has historically proven to be both time intensive and difficult. The goal of this thesis is to improve the design process for testing Global Formula Racing team's composite chassis sandwich panels. Consideration was taken regarding Formula SAE rules, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Non-Isotropic Fiber Reinforced Elastic Membranes for Micro Aerial Vehicle Wings

Creator:: Wilcox, Joshua Robert
Abstract:: Micro air vehicles (MAV's) and small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAV) are remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft with a take-off mass range between 50 g and few kilograms. These vehicles, as well as natural fliers such as bats and insects, utilize a variety of elastic wing structures including thin membranes. Over...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of Initial Moisture and Surface Properties on Sorptivity of Coarse Soil and Sand

Creator:: Ambrowiak, Gloria M.
Abstract:: Many different models and mechanisms of water imbibition into soil have been described in the literature. Theoretical equations based on those models exist to predict how water will flow in porous media. These models can be useful, but have their weaknesses. Research on imbibition and infiltration into soils has mostly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Interaction of Fire Refugia and Climate Refugia: A Case Study within California’s Diablo Mountain Range

Pre-Prototyping Framework: An Early Design Prototyping Methodology for Human-Centered Products and Workplaces

Irrigation Innovations to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

Measuring Tomato Production and Water Productivity in Agrivoltaic Systems

Machine Learning Applied to Non-periodic Event Detection – A Special Case in Structural Health Monitoring

The Eco-hydrology of Tropical Peatlands Associated with Land Cover Changes

Lasers in the Sky : Distributed Temperature Sensing and a Micro-Meteorological Approach to Quantifying Evapotranspiration

Composite Tools and Optimization in Racecars to Reduce Mass and Design Time

Non-Isotropic Fiber Reinforced Elastic Membranes for Micro Aerial Vehicle Wings

Effects of Initial Moisture and Surface Properties on Sorptivity of Coarse Soil and Sand

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