I am paticularly grateful for the opportunity to use Sandia National Laboratories FEA code Sierra/Solidmechaics provided to me in part by Dr. Joe Jung. Without him taking me on as an intern in his department at Sandia Labs I would have not have had the skills/tools necessary to complete this thesis.
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