• Winter Road Maintenance System Design for Snow Plowing 

  Kayabas, Poyraz (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Winter road maintenance is critical to ensuring safety and mobility of transportation systems in regions with heavy snowfall. Winter road maintenance system design involves several inter-related decision making problems ...

• Moisture Sensitivity of PLA/PBS Blends During Ultrasonic Welding and Fused Deposition Modeling 

  Quader, Raihan (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Moisture absorption into hygroscopic/hydrophilic materials used in fused deposition modeling (FDM) and ultrasonic welding (USW) can diminish desired mechanical properties. Sensitivity to moisture is dependent on material ...

• Adaptive Production Planning and Scheduling for the Make-to-order DNA Manufacturing System 

  Song, Dan (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This thesis develops an adaptive production planning and scheduling system for the make-to-order plasmid (DNA) manufacturing system. The system, which has stochastic nature and random demand, was represented by a ...

• A Study on Deep Learning for Prognostics and Health Management Applications: An Evolutionary Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Deep Neural Network Data-Driven Model for Prognostics of Aircraft Gas Turbine 

  Khumprom, Phattara (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The fundamental concept of prognostics and health management (PHM) within the scope of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) is to find an approach to evaluate the system health and predict its remaining useful life (RUL). ...

• Advanced Numerical Modeling in Manufacturing Processes 

  Dey, Arup (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  In manufacturing applications, a large number of data can be collected by experimental studies and/or sensors. This collected data is vital to improving process efficiency, scheduling maintenance activities, and predicting ...

• Modeling and Solving Multi-Product Multi-Layer Location-Routing Problems 

  Hamidi, Mohsen (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  Distribution is a very important component of logistics and supply chain management. Location-Routing Problem (LRP) simultaneously takes into consideration location, allocation, and vehicle routing decisions to design ...

• Integration of Simulation and DEA to Determine the Most Efficient Patient Appointment Scheduling Model for a Specific Clinic Setting 

  Aslani, Nazanin (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  This study develops a method to determine the most efficient scheduling model for a specific clinic setting. The appointment scheduling system assigns clinics' timeslots to incoming requests. There are three major ...

• A Domain-Knowledge Modeling of Hospital-Acquired Infection Risk in Healthcare Personnel From Retrospective Observational Data: A Case Study for Covid-19 

  Huynh, Phat (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Healthcare personnel (HCP) is facing a consistent risk of viral infections. We proposed a domain-knowledge-driven infection risk model to quantify the individual HCP and the population-level risks. For individual-level ...

• Predictive Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Planning of Complex Systems Working under Dynamic Operating Conditions 

  Forouzandeh Shahraki, Ameneh (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Predictive analytics has multiple facets that range from failure predictability and optimal asset management to high-level managerial insights. Predicting the failure time of assets and estimating their reliability through ...

• Some Studies on Reliability Analysis of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems 

  Davila Frias, Alex Vicente (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Cyber-physical systems (CPSs), a term coined in 2006 refers to the integration of computation with physical processes. Particularly, modern critical infrastructures are examples of CPSs, like smart electric power grids, ...

• A Study of Degradation Modeling and Lifetime Estimation of Capacitors 

  Gupta, Anunay (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  The degradation of capacitors under accelerated stress conditions occurs in a monotonic and non-linear fashion. Several efforts have been made to model the degradation behavior of capacitor considering either physics-of-failure ...

• Total Quality Management in Higher Education: A Soft Factor Approach Based on Faculty Satisfaction 

  Singh, Samrat (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  The literature review showed very few organization-wide Total Quality Management (TQM) implementations and mixed opinions regarding its compatibility in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Considering the human-centric ...

• A Review of Wheat Gluten-Based Bioplastics Processing and Their Applications 

  Abdullah-Al-Rahim, Md (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Bioplastics produced from agricultural resources are gaining attraction in recent years because of their sustainability and potential biodegradability. Wheat gluten (a wheat protein) is among the potential feedstocks, which ...

• Study of Organizational Transformation from Socio-Technical Perspective 

  Rahaman, Md Mahabubur (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Organizations are constantly striving for effective and flexible means for managing challenges due to globalization and increasing customer expectations. Many in business community attempted to implement the Toyota Production ...

• Two Applications of Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound in Complex Networks and Transportation 

  Rasti, Saeid (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  In this dissertation, we show two significant applications of combinatorial branch-and-bound as an exact solution methodology in combinatorial optimization problems. In the first problem, we propose a set of new group ...

• Designing Bio-Ink for Extrusion Based Bio-Printing Process 

  Habib, MD Ahasan (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Tissue regeneration using in-vitro scaffold becomes a vital mean to mimic the in-vivo counterpart due to the insufficiency of animal models to predict the applicability of drug and other physiological behavior. Three-dimensional ...

• Design and Manufacturing of Variable Stiffness Cellular Architecture 

  Xie, Ruinan (North Dakota State University, 2017)

  Cellular structures are highly evaluated due to their high material efficiency. Both theoretical and experimental studies have done on periodic cellular structures. However, the mechanical performance can be stochastically ...

• Optimization of Regional Empty Container Supply Chains to Support Future Investment Decisions for Developing Inland Container Terminals 

  Wadhwa, Satpal Singh (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Containerized grain shipping has been increasingly used as a shipment option by U.S. exporters. Continued evolution and investment decisions in optimizing multimodal operations is a key in continued growth for the container ...

• ISO 9001: 2015 Quality System Manual Development and Implementation for Business and Commerce with Expanded Emphasis on Risk Management 

  Mostafa, Mahmoud Hesham Ahmad Shawky (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  ISO 9001: 2015 is the latest edition of the Quality Management System from the International Standard Organization. One of the most noticeable changes about the new edition is the emphasis on risk-based thinking. This study ...

• Form and Functionality of Additively Manufactured Parts with Internal Structure 

  Ahsan, AMM Nazmul (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  The tool-less additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing processes (3DP) use incremental consolidation of feed-stock materials to construct part. The layer by layer AM processes can achieve spatial material distribution ...

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