Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Shape memory alloy rotary actuator for CubeSat deployable structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Small satellites have lowered the barrier to entry for space-bound science and technology demonstrations. However, the small form factor requires extremely low size, weight, and power for any on-board hardware. Precision ... -
Shape Memory Alloys for small scale actuation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), materials that can undergo a fully recoverable strain change due to a thermal cycle, and which can be produced in a form that is superelastic are only utilized limitedly. In this thesis, I ... -
Shape memory ceramic actuation of adaptive structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Shape memory ceramics in small volumes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Shape memory ceramics rely on martensitic transformations which are similar to those found in metallic shape memory materials, but ceramics offer several advantages over metals such as higher operating temperatures and ... -
Shape memory materials : crystallographic texture and its consequences
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000) -
Shape morphing structures via intercalation compounds
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Recent research has allowed the use of electrode-active materials as actuators by harnessing reversible volumetric change due to intercalation during charging and discharging. These actuators provide a relatively large ... -
The shape of digital content : a computing language based on Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception and the theory of shape grammars
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)James J Gibson, a psychologist who wrote prolifically about his theories of visual perception argued there is a difference between direct information, that is the perception of the affordances in an environment, and indirect ... -
The shape of segregation : the role of urban form in immigrant assimilation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In this thesis I investigate the relationship between the built environment and the residential segregation of immigrants at the building level. I use micro-data that includes the exact address of all the foreign and native ... -
The shape of the support : painting and politics in Syria's twentieth century
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This dissertation offers an intellectual history of painting in Syria in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that accounts for new regimes of political representation, from French Mandate rule to the mass mobilizations of ... -
Shape optimization of arch dams.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968) -
Shape optimization theory and applications in hydrodynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The Lagrange multiplier theorem and optimal control theory are applied to a continuous shape optimization problem for reducing the wave resistance of a submerged body translating at a steady forward velocity well below a ... -
Shape optimization using a matrix-free Newton method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Shape synthesis : physical object augmentation and actuation for display and interaction on shape changing interfaces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Pin based shape displays can not only give physical form to digital information, but they have the inherent ability to accurately move and manipulate objects that are placed on top of them. This document presents ways and ... -
Shape, motion, and inertial parameter estimation of space objects using teams of cooperative vision sensors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Future space missions are expected to use autonomous robotic systems to carry out a growing number of tasks. These tasks may include the assembly, inspection, and maintenance of large space structures; the capture and ... -
Shape, Reflectance, and Illumination From Appearance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)The image formation process describes how light interacts with the objects in a scene and eventually reaches the camera, forming an image that we observe. Inverting this process is a long-standing, ill-posed problem in ... -
Shaped actuators and sensors for local control of intelligent structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Shaped ultrafast optical pumping for NMR applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002) -
ShapeWright--finite element based free-form shape design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Shaping "The Second Half Century" : the Architectural Review, 1947-1971
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This study explores the editorial policies of the British periodical, The Architectural Review, in the quarter century between 1947 and 1971. In January 1947, its fiftieth anniversary, The Architectural Review published ... -
Shaping an inclusive waterfront : community engagement in the redevelopment of San Francisco's Pier 70
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Community engagement in large-scale development projects is a critical step in the real estate development process, needed both to obtain official project approval and to gain feedback to create projects that better provide ...
