M.S. Theses/Scholarly Research Completed

Year Name Research Title
2020 Sara Lyons A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Based Approach to Understanding and Managing Risks of Natural Gas Distribution Piping in the United States
2017 Adam Barrett An Investigation of the Effects of External Conditions on the Reliability of Aircraft Inspections
2016 Dan Hudson U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Safety Goals: Policy Implications of Expanding Scope to Include Risk Contributions from Concurrent Accidents Involving Multiple Units at a Shared Nuclear Power Plant Site
2016 Christine Sauerbrunn Evaluation of Information Entropy from Acoustic Emission Waveforms as a Fatigue Damage Metric for Al7075–T6
2013 Fatmagul Ibisoglu A Probabilistic Physics Of Failure Model For Creep-Fatigue In An Austenitic Stainless Steel
2012 Suzzane Schroer An Event Classification Schema for Considering Site Risk In a Multi-Unit Nuclear Power Plant Probabilistic Risk Assessment
2011 David Johnson Application of Stochastic Reliability Modeling to Waterfall and Feature Driven Development software Development Lifecycle (Co-Advisor with C. Smidts)
2011 Gary Wu A probabilistic-mechanistic approach to modeling stress corrosion cracking propagation in Alloy 600 components with applications
2011 Mohamad Nuhi Classification and Probabilistic Model Development for Creep Failures of Structures: Study of X-70 Carbon Steel and Al-7075-T6 Alloys
2010 Marc Montemerlo 2010 Reliability Assessment and Fatigue Fracture Studies on Al-7075
2010 Danny Cheng Bayesian Belief Network and Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Modeling of Dynamic System: Extension and Comparison
2006 Maria Amoedo A Structured Methodology for Identifying Performance Metrics and Monitoring Maintenance Effectiveness
2005 Carlos E. Barroeta Inspection interval optimization in periodically tested components
2005 Desmond St.Rose Reliability of SAS Actuators for Helicopter
2005 Albert Wong A Proposed Risk-Informed Decision-Making Process for Material and Waste Applications
2004 William Keller A Historical Overview of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Development and Uses in the Nuclear Power Industry
2004 Erin Mack Fire Protection System Reliability
2004 Daniel Yates Medical ODIC Sensor System: Reliability Assessment
2003 Tong Fang Pressurized Thermal Shock Modeling Uncertainties
2002 W. Baun Applicability of the Norris-Landzberg Accelerated Thermal Cycling Model to Gold-Tin Eutectic Solder
2000 K. Fretz Risk Assessment of Salmonella Enteritidis in Shell Eggs and Egg Products
1999 A. Alvarez Maintenance and Inspection Intervals Based on Statistical Analysis of Failure Data
1998 X. Wu Operation Control and Monitoring Expert System
1998 C. Lam Automation of Failure and Effect Analysis for Automotive Industry
1998 R. Alamsya Human Action Modeling for AP-600 Reactor
1998 J. Stone Contribution of Shutdown Risk to Overall Core Damage Frequency at U.S. Nuclear Power Plant
1997 J. Fama Functional Specifications of a Software Package for Root-Cause Failure Analysis
1997 S. Kumar Development of OSES
1994 W. Wang Artificial Neural Networks and Their Application
1993 E. Soter Protective Coatings as a Means of Reliable Corrosion Prevention
1991 D. Yeh Application of RC-Expert: GTST model to analyze the root-cause of reactor scram
1990 A. Amirghasemi A new look at uncertainty analysis
1990 Y. Guan Review of the reliability analysis techniques
1989 D. Koo D/Boolean applications in reliability analysis
1988 M. Middleton Goal tree analysis modeling of localized corrosion and fatigue failure modes
1988 L. Abbott Consistency checking during automatic knowledge acquisition for expert system development
1988 M. Cheok Plant Health Indicator Studies
1987 K. Kafie Development of the PC-Based version of CORRELATE
1987 D. Rathbun Development of safety goals for nuclear power plants
1986 C. Klee Plant categorization study of U.S. LWRs licensed 1979-1985
1985 F. Nouri Probabilistic cost-based method for reactor operational improvement
1983 H. Dezfuli Uncertainty analysis with correlated failure data
1981 C.H. Mak (MIT student) Development and application of the MOB code1