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Title: Does Planning Build Resilience in Hydraulic Fracturing Communities?
Author: Underwood, Catherine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Social sciences--Research, Land use--Planning
Description: Despite its long history in the United States and abroad, the unconventional drilling industry, and specifically hydraulic fracturing technology, remain controversial. While the competing demands of energy from oil and gas are contrasted with envi...

Title: ELECTRO-ELASTICITY SENSING IN AXIALLY-LOADED CONCRETE USING RECYCLED STEEL RESIDUALS AS FUNCTIONAL FILL
Author: Scott, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Civil engineering
Description: Self-sensing concrete is embedded with electrostrictive materials that provides indications of strain based on variations in electrical conductivity, or its inverse, resistance. Previous works includes embedded material that vary in size from nano...

Title: ENGINEERED WATER REPELLENCY FOR INFILTRATION CONTROL IN COAL FLY ASH
Author: Feyyisa, Jenberu
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: In 2014 approximately 47% of the 190 million short tons of coal combustion product (CCP) was recycled. As a construction material, coal fly ash (CFA) finds considerable use as a partial replacement for Portland cement, as structural fill, and as a...

Title: ENHANCED REMOVAL OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM OOCYSTS AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUM-SIZED MICROSPHERES FROM RECREATIONAL WATER THROUGH FILTRATION
Author: Lu, Ping
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
Description: Cryptosporidium species are the cause of cryptosporidiosis, which has symptoms such as watery diarrhea, dehydration, fever, nausea, body fatigue, and abdominal cramps. Infants, the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems are m...

Title: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL USE OF CROWDSOURCED BICYCLE DATA FOR CYCLING ACTIVITIES AND SAFETY ANALYSIS
Author: Lin, Zijing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Cycling, as a healthier and greener travel mode, has been encouraged for short-distance trips by city planners and policymakers. Since cycling provides an efficient way to improve public health, alleviate traffic congestion, and reduce energy cons...

Title: EVALUATION OF PLANTS ON WATER BALANCE OF EARTHEN LANDFILL COVERS
Author: Saghaei, Banafsheh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geotechnical engineering, Hydrology, Environmental geology
Description: Landfilling is one of the most common methods to dispose municipal solid waste (MSW) and coal combustion residues (CCRs) in the U.S. Sustainable landfilling will be the key for the future advancement of solid waste management. Sustainable landfill...

Title: Energetic Theory and Hadley Cells at a Seasonal Scale: How Will ITCZ respond to a Warming Climate
Author: Bai, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Atmospheric science
Description: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of convective systems around the equator with showers and thunderstorms, is an important feature not only to the tropical societies whose water budget depends on it, but also to the atmospheric sci...

Title: Engineering Characterization of Tire Derived Aggregate for Geotechnical Applications
Author: Garcia-Theran, Mauricio
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: According to the Rubber Manufacture Association about 230.7 million scrap tires are generated in the United States every year. Reduction of scrap tire disposal, through recycling and reutilization, has become an important environmental priority. I...

Title: Engineering characterization of waste derived geopolymer cement concrete for structural applications
Author: Tempest, Brett
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Sustainability
Description: Geopolymer cements provide an alternative to the Portland cement used to manufacture structural concrete. The material commonly used to produce geopolymers is fly ash, which is found in the waste stream of power generation facilities. Therefore, r...

Title: Evaluating Organizational Readiness to Implement Change Within the Workplace
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Organizational change is an initiative to transition from a current state to a desired future state, where the initiatives can be either planned or unplanned, based on motivational factors. This study evaluates the impact of organizational charact...

Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Whole-Watershed Stream Restoration: Implications for Groundwater Storage, Water Quality, and Suspended Solids in a Piedmont Urban Forest Watershed
Author: Petitt, Destini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology, Geochemistry, Ecology
Description: The quality and quantity of water in degraded watersheds (i.e.: watersheds undergoing changing land-use, urbanization, agricultural use) may be impaired compared to undisturbed forested watersheds. To enhance the ecosystem function of impaired wat...

Title: Evaluation of Multiple Feedstocks for Codigestion
Author: Chouinard, Tracy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Environmental engineering
Description: In the U.S., a move toward the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies for solid waste management has been slow. However, recently, a number of factors have coalesced to renew interest in AD because of its potential to produce renewable energ...

Title: Evaluation of Reclaimed Drywall for Soil Amendment and Carbon Sequestration
Author: Besnard, Fabien
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Construction and demolition (C&D) activities produce 170 million tons of waste annually (US EPA 2009), 15% of which are drywall. Drywall from construction activities, virgin material too small to be reused and often disposed in landfills, is estim...

Title: Evaluation of the lateral response of micropiles via full scale load testing
Author: Babalola, Michael
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Design
Description: Micropiles are a relatively new deep foundation technology in the United States. As an alternative to driven piles or drilled shafts, micropiles can provide substantial support while minimizing cost, environmental impact, and harmful construction ...

Title: Evidence-Based Human-Centric Lighting Assist Tool towards a Healthier Lit Environment
Author: Amirazar, Armin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Light is an essential element of building design that influences human health, comfort, performance, and well-being. Humans' daily rhythms in behavior and physiology, such as wake/sleep patterns, have evolved under natural light-dark cycles over m...

Title: Examining Associations, Identifying Chokepoints, and Modeling Truck Travel Time Performance Measures
Author: Duvvuri, Sarvani
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Civil engineering
Description: Trucks transport a significant amount of freight tonnage and are more susceptible to complex interactions with other vehicles in a traffic stream. While traffic congestion continues to be an important ‘highway’ problem, delays in truck travel resu...

Title: FORECASTING TRAVEL TIME AND VARIATIONS IN TRAVEL TIME DUE TO VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONTEXT ALONG FREEWAY
Author: Reza, Rashid Mohammad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: The growth in population, technological advancements, increase in average life expectancy, and newer and fuel-efficient vehicles has led to a meteoric rise in travel demand over the past few decades. However, the road network capacity has not incr...

Title: FULL-SCALE TESTING AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF A MULTISTORY MASONRY STRUCTURE SUBJECTED TO INTERNAL BLAST LOADING
Author: Zapata, Brian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Physics, Civil engineering
Description: As military and diplomatic representatives of the United States are deployed throughout the world, they must frequently make use of local, existing facilities; it is inevitable that some of these will be load bearing unreinforced masonry (URM) str...

Title: Finite Element Modeling of A Pier-On-Bank Bridge Scour
Author: Chavan, Vidya Subhash
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Scour is a critical condition change for a bridge hydraulic system, especially during storms and subsequent flooding. Caused by swiftly moving water, scours remove sand and soil, creating holes surrounding a bridge pier compromising the integrity ...

Title: Geo spatial and Statistical Methods to Model Intra city Truck Crashes
Author: Pasupuleti, Naga
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in statistical ranking criteria to identify hot spots on road networks. These criteria potentially represent high crash risk zones for further engineering evaluation and safety improvement. Many s...