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Growthlines, Alexandra Saunders
Growthlines, Alexandra Saunders
LSU Master's Theses
The work in Growthlines is a collection of ceramic objects that are characterized by floral pattern and their potential for use. I make ceramic work that is functional and designed to be in the home. I think that the way something looks is an integral part of function and I seek to make objects that function well. The surface of my pottery is rich with images of flowers and I hope that the surface both draws in the user and highlights flowers and how important they are for the preservation of the natural world. My work functions as a surrogate …
I Bloom At Twilight, Michael H. Cerv
I Bloom At Twilight, Michael H. Cerv
LSU Master's Theses
Driven by a vigorous passion for the ceramic material and its history, I Bloom at Twilight strives to bring attention to craft and construction. To engineer each piece I pull from and distort historical pottery references, lengthening or widening parts of their profile with the form of a flower in mind. By adapting a variety of forming techniques, both ancient to modern, I build vessels adorned with textures that stem from their creation. Inspired by the stunning designs of Soviet Propaganda Porcelain and Nabeshima ware, I apply vibrant glazes in stylized depictions of clouds and flowers. Finally, using wax resist …
Phantasmatic: Interrogating The (Im)Materiality Of Bodies Through Wool And Clay, Alexandria J. Arceneaux
Phantasmatic: Interrogating The (Im)Materiality Of Bodies Through Wool And Clay, Alexandria J. Arceneaux
LSU Master's Theses
Phantasmaticis an exploration of materials and materiality which relies on the concept of the phantasmatic body elucidated in Gayle Salamon’s work Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality. This thesis is an exploration of these ideas. In my work, I use wool and clay to represent the material (known) and phantasmatic (sensed) bodies in an effort to explore an expanded understanding of the body at large. My work is also an effort to expand my own understanding of my phantasmatic body and its relationship to (my) materiality.
Dig, Spin, Repeat, Brittany Anne Sievers
Dig, Spin, Repeat, Brittany Anne Sievers
LSU Master's Theses
Dig, Spin, Repeat, is a body of process based installation objects that uses minimalistic aesthetics placed strategically in the gallery to highlight the architecture of the room. By connecting these unique architectural elements, the work aims to achieve mindfulness similar to the research of Ellen Langer: encouraging active observation. Drawing from my background in sports and factory work, I create multiple repetitive forms out of hand-spun yarn and sourced clay. The room-sized installation objects produced from these raw materials explore the value of staying in the present moment for both the viewer and myself.
Co-Ward: Records Of A Fugitive Heart, Melodie Serena Reay
Co-Ward: Records Of A Fugitive Heart, Melodie Serena Reay
LSU Master's Theses
Co-ward: Records of a Fugitive Heart is a collection of objects that are themselves collections of events both internal and external. Each object, hand-made and/or un-made, is a record of a moment of vulnerability, in regards to moving away from, or towards, another.
Gotta Catch 'Em All, Jennifer Lynn Lombardi
Gotta Catch 'Em All, Jennifer Lynn Lombardi
LSU Master's Theses
The ability to imagine is essential to shaping who we are, and is an important part of our humanity. Children have the ability to use aspects of their environment as their playthings, becoming the characters in their world through their sense of imagination. We lose this ability as we grow, leaving us with only memories and sentimentality. I have come to realize that my art is an expression of the longing and search to regain that ability to become fused with my imagination and my environment. I allow myself to become lost in a world of fantasy once more, and …
Numerical Simulation Of Pile Installation And Following Setup Considering Soil Consolidation And Thixotropy, Firouz Rosti
Numerical Simulation Of Pile Installation And Following Setup Considering Soil Consolidation And Thixotropy, Firouz Rosti
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
During pile installation, the stresses and void ratios in the surrounding soils change significantly, creating large displacements, soil disturbance and the development of excess porewater pressures. The disturbed soils, especially fine grain soils, tend to regain their strength over time due to both the consolidation of the excess porewater pressure and thixotropic behavior of soil particles. In this research, the pile installation process and the subsequent consolidation, the thixotropy and load tests for several test piles were modeled using finite element (FE) model. A new elastoplastic constitutive model, which was developed based on the disturbed state concept (DSC) and critical …
Microstructure And Physics-Based Structural Models For Suspended Clay-Exopolymer Flocs, Xiaoling Tan
Microstructure And Physics-Based Structural Models For Suspended Clay-Exopolymer Flocs, Xiaoling Tan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Costal or shoreline waters are often characterized by high concentrations of suspended cohesive sediments (or clay) affected by varied organic matters (mostly extracellular polymeric substances or exopolymers), salt, and hydrodynamic disturbance. Resulting from the flocculation-disaggregation between the colloidal clay and exopolymer, the size and structure changes of the cohesive sediments are of key importance for understanding sediment transport processes (i.e., settling, breakage, and survivability) and the geotechnical and geophysical properties of the bottom bed. Because the coastal environment is extremely complicated, with many unpredictable and uncontrollable parameters, current knowledge is still insufficient to predict or fully explain the behavior of …
Communiplaytion: Getting Our Hands Dirty Together, Brooke Tyson Cassady
Communiplaytion: Getting Our Hands Dirty Together, Brooke Tyson Cassady
LSU Master's Theses
CommuniPLAYtion: getting our hands dirty together is a weeklong installation of a collective ceramics studio implanted in Foster Gallery. It is a participatory and interactive exhibition that demonstrates how material play creates moments for personal reflection and contemplation, while also facilitating communication and social relations within a specific place. CommuniPLAYtion is an opportunity for an altruistic exchange among individuals in contrast to the monetary transactions that momentarily connect strangers. These engagements, similar to the “Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics” of other contemporary artists, empower individuals to develop modes of interaction that suit their interpersonal needs. The exhibition, communiPLAYtion enables the basic precursors that …
Refurbishment Of Louisiana State University Calibration Chamber, Ardita Dushi
Refurbishment Of Louisiana State University Calibration Chamber, Ardita Dushi
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis focuses on the refurbishment of Louisiana State University calibration chamber. The testing equipments were checked and connected together to complete the calibration chamber system. The data acquisition system was upgraded to National Instruments (NI) SCXI system. Therefore, a compatible computer program language in LabVIEW was developed. LabVIEW is a programming language developed by NI that reads the data from the instruments, displays the data in graphical form, calculates the desired parameters, commands the transducer to apply the required pressure to the specimen, and saves the data at the desired frequency. The Anisotropic Modified Cam Clay Model (AMCCM) following …
Fabrication, Characterization And Properties Of Hiercchically Ordered Nanocomposites, Avinash Dundigalla
Fabrication, Characterization And Properties Of Hiercchically Ordered Nanocomposites, Avinash Dundigalla
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The objectives of this research are to study the structure, morphology and properties of poly(ethylene-oxide) (PEO)-clay nanocomposites using various imaging techniques. Optical Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy are used to image structures on all length scales. Complementary scattering experiments are discussed along with preliminary differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy results. In particular we investigated the multilayered structures of PEO-Laponite and PEO-Montmorillonite multilayered films made from solution. The shear orientation of a polymer-clay network in solution combined with simultaneous solvent evaporation leads to supramolecular multilayer formation in the film. The resulting …
The Chemistry Of My Affections, David Scott Smith
The Chemistry Of My Affections, David Scott Smith
LSU Master's Theses
Although I have always been interested in the origins of my thought processes and the methods and compulsions that motivate my work, in past work I have avoided self portraiture, or blatant explorations into my own sense of self. With my thesis project I wanted to conduct an express exploration into the psychology of my motivations. My initial goal was to create an environment, a sense of place, where both the viewer and myself are drawn into the work, and confronted with a unique experience of personal expression. The focal point is a bath enclosed within a grotto, which symbolizes …
Shear Induced Orientation In Polymer-Clay Solutions And Their Influence On The Structure In Multilayered Films, Matthew Michael Malwitz
Shear Induced Orientation In Polymer-Clay Solutions And Their Influence On The Structure In Multilayered Films, Matthew Michael Malwitz
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The influence of shear on viscoelastic solutions of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and clay (Cloisite, CNA) was investigated by rheology and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) under shear. These measurements determined the shear-induced orientation of the clay and the polymer as well as their relaxation behavior after cessation of shear. Comparison of PEO-CNA solutions (~100 nm diameter platelets) to previously studied PEO-Laponite gels (~30 nm diameter platelets) found that the orientation of CNA platelets occurs at much lower shear rates. Additionally, the relaxation times were much longer for CNA platelets than for Laponite platelets. From these solutions and gels, multilayered nanocomposite …
Log-Derived Cation Exchange Capacity Of Shaly Sands : Application To Hydrocarbon Detection And Drilling Optimization, Gamze Ipek
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Researchers at Louisiana State University, LSU, have introduced several petrophysical models expressing the electric properties of shaly sands. These models, to be used for hydrocarbon detection, are based on the Waxman and Smits concept of supplementing the water conductivity with a clay counterions conductivity. The LSU models also utilize the Dual Water theory, which relates each conductivity term to a particular type of water, free and bound, each occupying a specific volume of the total pore space. The main difference between these models and the other shaly sand models is that the counterion conductivity is represented by a hypothetical sodium …