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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Master’s Thesis. Mechanical Engineering.</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Name</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">: Shahmeer Baweja
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Defense Date and Time</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">: May 3, 2019 @ 10 am
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Committee Members:</span></b></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Shailendra P. Joshi</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Theocharis Baxevanis</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Praveen Bollini</span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Location</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">: ME Small Conference Room</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman"">STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF HCP POLYCRYSTAL USING CRYSTAL PLASTICITY MODELING AND SIMULATION</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Three-dimensional crystal plasticity finite element modeling and simulation of polycrystalline magnesium<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>(Mg) alloys is performed. The focus of this work is on extracting the relation between the initial texture and the mechanical behavior of a polycrystalline Mg microstructure<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>under uniaxial loading, particularly along principal directions of a rolled material - rolling (L), in-plane transverse to rolling (T), out-of-plane transverse (S) to L and T. Starting with an initial rolled texture of an Mg alloy as a basis, the effect
of deviations in the initial texture on the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics. Quantitative analysis of the deviations in the overall stress-strain behaviors, activities of the slip and twinning mechanisms, and textural evolution is quantified.</span></p>
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