Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Contact and non-contact non-destructive detection of debonding of tiles
Published 2026Debonding of tiles in high-rise buildings poses safety threats, making reliable non-destructive inspection (NDI) essential. This study systematically investigates contact and non-contact acoustic NDI methods for detecting ...Open AccessThesis -
A multi-point maximum principle to prove global parabolic Harnack inequalities
Published 2026In this work, we introduce a novel methodology for proving global pointwise Harnack inequalities for parabolic partial differential equations on a Riemannian manifold. The main idea of our approach is to apply a multi-point ...Open AccessThesis -
Animating the “Outside”: a Tripartite Model of Analysing 1960s Jazz
Published 2026The revolutionary change in jazz improvisation of the 1960s featured a sudden increase in the degree and duration of departure from pre-composed forms. This practice, commonly known as “outside” playing, has generally been ...Open AccessThesis -
Advancing Additive Manufacturing of Copper Alloys: Processing, Microstructure, and Property Optimisation
Published 2026Copper (Cu) and its alloys are indispensable to modern society due to their exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity, mechanical performance, and corrosion resistance. The transition towards Industry 4.0 and beyond ...Open AccessThesis -
Deep-time reconstructions of Earth's surface environments and elevations
Published 2026Reconstructing Earth's ancient surface topography in deep geological time demands the synthesis of plate tectonic reconstructions, geodynamic simulations, paleoclimate modelling, and advanced computational methodologies. ...Open AccessThesis