Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1998. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 144 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-124).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. S.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Jacobs, Laurence; Committee Co-Chair: Kurtis, Kimberly; Committee Member: DesRoches, Reginald.

Thesis (M. S.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Jacobs, Laurence; Committee Member: Kim, Jin-Yeon; Committee Member: Qu, Jianmin. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (M. S.)--Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. / Hamid Garmestani, Committee Member ; Arun M. Gokhale, Committee Member ; Rosario A. Gerhardt, Committee Chair.

Thesis (M. S.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Laurence J. Jacobs; Committee Member: Jianmin Qu; Committee Member: Jin-Yeon Kim. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Ume, Charles; Committee Member: Chen, Ye-Hwa; Committee Member: Michaels, Jennifer; Committee Member: Sadegh, Nader; Committee Member: Vachtsevanos, George. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). "November 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-161). Also available via the World Wide Web.

No description available.

The European Corn Borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, is an agricultural pest which bores small holes in the rind of maize stalks and then proceeds to consume the pith. Because most of the damage to the stalk is internal, it is difficult to quantify the damage to an individual stalk without time-consuming, manual examination. This work explored the hypothesis that internal damage could be detected and quantified using non-destructive, electromagnetic measurements. Laboratory experiments and numerical simulation studies predicted changes in capacitance of stalks due to hollow core ECB damage. A guarded probe device to measure electrical impedance from 500 Hz to 100 kHz was designed and constructed for data collection. A field test with the measurement device was conducted and frequency-swept impedance measurements were taken on field-grown plants with and without ECB damage. Field measurements demonstrated that statistically significant capacitance changes associated with ECB damage could be detected in agreement with numerical simulations of stalk damage. Numerical, laboratory, and field test results all supported the hypothesis that electromagnetic impedance measurements, in particular, capacitance, provide a promising new avenue for ECB damage evaluation. While further research will be needed to further refine this concept, this measurement approach is non-destructive, thus allowing measurements to be performed without sacrificing the infested plants.