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Title: EVALUATING CORROSIVE SITE PERFORMANCE AND POLICY WITH CONCRETE ADMIXTURES
Author: Violette, Keith
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The coastline of North Carolina (NC) is home to a large number of state-owned concrete structures such as bridges that can be adversely affected by the aggressive, chloride-rich environments in which they are constructed. To delay the corrosion-re...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Author: Diep, Thanh-tu
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...

Title: Electrochemical Mineralization of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
Author: Pulikkal, Vivek
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are fluorinated organic compounds with broad applications in aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF) for firefighting, lubricants, waterproof and stain-resistant products. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a toxic...

Title: Emerging Challenges in Landfill Leachate Quality and Ability of Fungal Bioreactors to Address Them
Author: Rezaei Adaryani, Amirhossein
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Landfill sites, that are the ultimate depository of solid waste stream in most societies, have the potential to generate leachate containing a complex mixture of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such as pharmaceutical compounds, plasticizer...

Title: Energy loss due to traffic congestion
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer Prasad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: Traffic congestion is a problem related not only to traffic characteristics but also to several other factors which are of growing concern to the society. Traffic delays lead to increased fuel consumption and there by increased energy loss. This r...

Title: Engineered Water Repellency for Frost Heave Mitigation: Decoupling the Relative Influence Of Matric and Osmotic Suction
Author: Abiodun, Uduebor
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Materials science
Description: This dissertation, stemming from a substantial research endeavor funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award #1928813), stands as an essential exploration of Engineered Water Repellency (EWR) in mitigating frost heave. Combining laborato...

Title: Evaluating Corrosive Site Performance, Service Life, and Policy of Coastal Bridges
Author: Al-Salihi, Taiseer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Many state-owned concrete structures, such as bridges, line the coast of North Carolina (NC), and these structures are vulnerable to corrosion and degradation in the aggressive, chloride-rich environments where they were built. The North Carolina ...

Title: Examining the Association Between Bus Transit Reliability and Ridership
Author: Jayanthi, Lakshmi Sravya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The road infrastructure has not been developed at the rate of growing travel demand in many cities in the United States, mainly due to space and resource constraints. Practitioners are exploring means to increase public transportation ridership wi...

Title: Experimental Evaluation of Low-Cost, Portable, and Rapid Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Timber Distribution Poles
Author: Barber, Erica
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Power line workers have long been required to climb timber utility poles to perform maintenance. Although routine pole inspection and maintenance programs are in place to optimize asset management and reduce the risk posed to workers, such work co...

Title: Experimental Study and Numerical Modeling of the Performance of Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Brine/Coal Fly Ash Co-Disposal
Author: He, Rui
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental management, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: The coal-fired steam electricity plants are interested in finding efficient ways to manageby-products from the combustion process out of environmental and regulatory considerations. As one of the major solid by-products, the coal fly ash (CFA) is ...

Title: Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method
Author: Coe, Corbin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: CORBIN COE. Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method(Under the direction of DR. NICOLE BRAXTAN)In 2006, Tesla announced the first fully electric lithium-ion battery ...

Title: Experimental and Computational Study of Performance of Highway Embankments
Author: Hassani, Mehrdad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Highway embankments require careful selection of the borrow material and construction practices. Most highway agencies in North America specify the soil selection criteria based on gradation or Atterberg limits. Furthermore, current construction p...

Title: Exploring Relationships Between Travel Time Based Performance Measures
Author: Koilada, Krupanidhi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: Traffic congestion is a common problem on transportation networks in many urban areas. It causes delay, effecting the road users and their behavior. The road users always look to reduce their travel time and reach their destination on-time. Hence,...

Title: Geotechnical Controls on Organo-Silane Modification of Soils and Coal Combustion Fly Ash
Author: Keatts, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Organo-silane (OS) surface modification works by chemically altering the surface of silica based materials and rendering them hydrophobic (waterproof). Limited research is present in the literature addressing the use of OS modified soils as an inf...

Title: Hydration of Binary and Tertiary Fly ash and Quicklime Blended Cement Paste System
Author: Ojaruega, Akpovona
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The hydration kinetics in blended cementitious systems with fly ash are quite different from those in conventional cementitious systems. The pozzolanic nature of fly ash not only reduces the rate of hydration in cement-fly ash blends, but also rea...

Title: IMPACT OF CONCRETE MIXTURE DESIGN PARAMETERS ON EARLY AGE CHARACTERISTICS AND LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES AND PAVEMENTS
Author: Lukavsky, Austin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) maintains databases with information on the mixture design proportions, early age test results, and information about bridges and pavement sections throughout the state. Recent initiatives ar...

Title: Impact of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Mobility of Highway Systems
Author: Liu, Pengfei
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Automated vehicles
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are known as an effective way to improve safety and mobility of the transportation system. As a combination technology of connected vehicle and autonomous vehicle, CAVs share real time traffic da...

Title: Impacts of connected and autonomous vehicles on deep reinforcement learning controlled intersection systems
Author: Song, Li
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies could significantly change the car-following behaviors and affect the performance of the intersection systems. As it is expected to have a long transition time during which human driven vehicles ...

Title: LABORATORY EVALUATION OF THE UNCONFINED COMPRESSION STRENGTH OF POLYMERIC FIBER REINFORCED SOILS
Author: Kral, Robert
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Soil science, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Geosynthetic fiber reinforced soil can be used to remediate weak, near-surface soils. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that the geofibers had on the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of various soil types. To distinguish t...

Title: LEACHABILITY AND SORPTIVITY OF INCINERATED BIOSOLID ASH
Author: Boivin, William
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental geology
Description: The byproduct of incinerated biosolids (biosolid ash) was evaluated for land application through laboratory and field testing of leachability and sorption capacity. Field testing involved vacuum lysimeters that were installed to monitor the leacha...