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Nonlinear stochastic system identification techniques for biological tissues/

Chen, Yi, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)

This research develops a device capable of measuring the nonlinear dynamic mechanical properties of human tissue in vivo. The enabling technology is the use of nonlinear stochastic system identification techniques in ...

Electron reconstruction in simulated Pb+Pb events in CMS

Chen, Yi, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)

Introduction: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at Geneva, Switzerland, will be the biggest particle accelerator in the world. There are a number of detectors on the LHC ring. The LHCb detector is aimed to study ...

Lorentz force actuator and carbon fiber co-winding design, construction and characterization

Chen, Yi, S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)

Carbon fiber composites are materials that present many benefits to engineering applications, ranging from aerospace to medicine. This thesis provides background on carbon fiber properties and manufacturing techniques, and ...

Miniature, high-speed imaging transform spectrometers and advanced sampling algorithms

Chen, Yi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)

This thesis describes the development of miniature imaging Fourier transform spectrometers and irregular sampling techniques. An imaging spectrometer is a device that takes a series of images that include information from ...