Theses and Dissertations

As one of the activities of the Joint Committee on Planning and Design of Tall Buildings, a survey was conducted to compile existing information on the location, year of completion, number of stories, height, use, and material to tall buildings. This report presents and analyzes the data collected from this survey.

The dissolution of the phosphide phase in the ternary Fe-Ni-P system (at low nickel and phosphorus contents) has been studied optically and by electron microprobe analysis.

In this work the results of Hornich and some of the results of Cima and Pfaltzgraff are presented. These results are primarily concerned with the characterization of the interior of the closed set S, with connectivity of schlicht and of non-schlicht funtions, and with the local structure of the space H.

An analytical procedure is presented for determining approximate elastic-plastic behavior of individual stories in an unbraced multi-story steel frame subjected to nonproportional combined loading.

As the traditional White canon (Bloom, 1994) proliferates through high schools throughout America, its effect may perpetuate a social stratification based on unjust racial dynamics. The inclusion of multicultural literature into the English curriculum may

This paper contains a discussion of a particular form of charge-storage - storage of carriers in the neutral region of a junction diode.

The subject considered in this paper is the temporal relationship of data flow through an information system and how this flow may be described by a mathematical model.

This dissertation examined the contribution of higher education to the understanding and practice of women�s empowerment, as perceived by adult Afghan men and women living in the city of Kabul who attended universities either in or out of Afghanistan. While studying the concept of women�s empowerment, this work defined empowerment through its core concepts of power, agency, functionality, and capability via the lens of Rowland�s typology of different forms of power, Stromquist�s model of empowerment, and the capability approach.

The problem of an infinite medium containing a crack near an arbitrarily located circular elastic inclusion and subjected to a uniform longitudinal shear stress at infinity is considered. By embedding a layer of body forces at the interface, the problem for the nonhomogeneous medium is reduced to two problems for homogeneous materials.

The laser beam is proposed as a heat source to form an alloy or a diffusion layer of degenerate material by which ohmic contact can be made.

In this thesis, the short run characteristics of a dodge continuous sampling plan are modeled. The model serves to quantitatively define the probability distribution for the defectives in a short run of units.