Should each substantive chapter of a thesis have its own literature review in addition to the main literature review chapter? I am a PhD candidate in the school of enginerering.
This question is about my dissertation literature review.

Through my review of past dissertations, I see three styles of literature review. One is a single literature chapter which has the past theories. The second, and most common due to the style of publishing three journal papers, has the literature review separated into each of the contribution to knowledge chapters  (typically three chapters). The least common is a hybrid with the single literature review chapter plus literature reviews in each contribution chapter (looks like it was a three paper but did not get published so modified into a single paper dissertation). 

To remind the reader and/or allow for self contained chapters, should each contribution chapter have a literature review? What should the chapter literature reviews contain? Should each chapter have a literature review even if it is repetitive from the main literature review chapter? Is it just the underpinning theories in the chapter literature reviews?
"Should each chapter have a literature review even if it is repetitive from the main literature review chapter?"  

No.  Avoid putting the reader to sleep unnecessarily.