Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Towards a Polyalgorithm for Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection
(Virginia Tech, 2018-02-23)Earth observation satellites (EOS) such as Landsat provide image datasets that can be immensely useful in numerous application domains. One way of analyzing satellite images for land use and land cover change (LULCC) is ... -
Modeling and Design of a SiC Zero Common-Mode Voltage Three-Level DC/DC Converter
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-16)As wide-bandgap devices continue to experience deeper penetration in commercial applications, there are still a number of factors which make the adoption of such technologies difficult. One of the most notable issues with ... -
Harvest practices cause aberrations in pork quality
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-16)Consumers are often confused and reluctant to purchase products from fresh retail meat counters that exhibit significant color variations. This hesitation to purchase results in annual profit loss to the pork industry. ... -
A Numerical and Statistical Analysis of the Fractured Rock Aquifer System in Ploemeur, France to Quantify Local and Regional Recharge
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-14)A Numerical and Statistical Analysis of the Fractured Rock Aquifer System in Ploemeur, France to Quantify Recharge Stacey Elizabeth Law ABSTRACT Groundwater recharge is an essential metric for understanding and protecting ... -
Contemporary City Recreation Center
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-13)Through a ramp circulation system connect each floor of the building and horizontally link inside and outside the gym with an urban environment. People experiencing continuing from in/out, enclose/opening, artificial/nature, ... -
The City's Edge-how architecture respond to different types of ground on a former landfill site in Lagos
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-13)In the progress of city development What's your positon in a city What's an architecture's position in a city What's the condition of the city's edge -
Reframing the Ditch
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-13)Reframing the Ditch explores the application of native canopy using green street tools as a method to move beyond minimums and improve biological diversity of stormwater conveyances in a way that is consistent with visual ... -
A Bayesian Framework for Multi-Stage Robot, Map and Target Localization
(Virginia Tech, 2019)This thesis presents a generalized Bayesian framework for a mobile robot to localize itself and a target, while building a map of the environment. The proposed technique builds upon the Bayesian Simultaneous Robot Localization ... -
Monitoring and Preventing Data Exfiltration in Android-hosted Unmanned Aircraft System Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-06)With the dominance of Android in the smartphone market, malware targeting Android users has increased over time. Android applications are now being used to control unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) making smartphones the ... -
A Water Garden: Celebrating the Beauty of Nature
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-06)Nature, as the major consideration of the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has constantly been favored as a path for a pure soul to communicate with the spiritual. Inspired by Wright's Organic Architecture and ... -
Strength and Performance of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Post-Tensioned Flat Plates
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-06)Load testing was performed on a one-third scale model steel fiber reinforced concrete post-tensioned flat plate. The specimen had nine 10ft x 10ft x 3in. bays along with a 2ft-6in. overhang. Distributed loading was applied ... -
Power Analysis and Prediction for Heterogeneous Computation
(Virginia Tech, 2018-02-12)Power, performance, and cost dictate the procurement and operation of high-performance computing (HPC) systems. These systems use graphics processing units (GPUs) for performance boost. In order to identify inexpensive-to-acquire ... -
The Ashes and the Portal: An immersive stereoscopic experience on Cyclorama
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-05)the Ashes and the Portal is an immersive stereoscopic animated short capturing the burned library after a fire disaster at Mzuzu University, Malawi, Africa, and it also witnesses the new design of the library from Virginia ... -
Direct Lithium-ion Battery Recycling to Yield Battery Grade Cathode Materials
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-05)The demand for Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has been growing exponentially in recent years due to the proliferation of electric vehicles (EV). A large amount of lithium-ion batteries are expected to reach their end-of-life ... -
Investigation of the Time-Dependent Longitudinal Flexural Behavior of the Varina-Enon Bridge
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-05)Post-tensioned concrete is a building technology which provides a compressive force to concrete via steel tendons. This combination of steel and concrete allows for the construction of lighter and stiffer structures. ... -
Analysis of the Effect of the August 2017 Eclipse on the Ionosphere Using a Ray-trace Algorithm
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-05)The total solar eclipse over the continental United States on August 21, 2017 offered a unique opportunity to study the dependence of the ionospheric density and morphology on incident solar radiation. Unique responses may ... -
Collectively Voting One's Culture
(Virginia Tech, 2018-02-09)This thesis considers theoretically the institutional nature of culture and its strength as a determinant of political behavior in Southwest Virginia. Beginning with a description of the geography of Southwest Virginia ... -
On the Programmability and Performance of OpenCL Designs for FPGA
(Virginia Tech, 2018-02-09)Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been emerging as a promising bedrock to provide opportunities for several types of accelerators that spans across various domains such as finance, web-search, and data center ... -
Effect of Centrifugal Stiffening on the Natural Frequencies of Aircraft Wings During Rapid Roll Maneuvers
(Virginia Tech, 2018-02-09)The rolling of an aircraft about its fuselage produces centrifugal forces which affect the stiffness of the wings. A number of previous studies explain the effect of centrifugal stiffening in rotating beams and consequently ... -
Opening and Space: A contemplative tower in the woods
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08-02)This thesis aims to explore architectural experience by addressing how different types of openings exert an impact to the space. The openings not only play a critical role in giving a palpable presence to natural light in ...
