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Title: Optimal variable speed limit control for mixed traffic flows in a connected and autonomous vehicle environment
Author: Yu, Miao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Traffic demand grows rapidly over the past decades around the world, which leads to severe traffic congestion problems. Congestion has numerous negative effects, such as wasting time of drivers and passengers, increasing delays, decreasing travel ...

Title: PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED SOURCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Author: NETH, NICOLE
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management
Description: It is known that wastewater treatment plants are one of the major routes through which pharmaceuticals enter the environment. The following work investigated the effect of previously unrecognized sources of pharmaceuticals that enter water resourc...

Title: Prediction of Defect Hotspots for Highway Maintenance Management: A Multi-asset Machine Learning Approach
Author: Karimzadeh, Arash
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Artificial intelligence
Description: Given multiple budget and revenue constraints that the transportation sector encounters, predictive analytics enables maintenance agencies to make effective decisions, prioritize maintenance tasks, and provide efficient life-cycle planning. To thi...

Title: Quantification of Profile Measurement Data
Author: Javidpour, Farid
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mathematics, Civil engineering
Description: Parts with complicated freeform shapes have been attracting more attention in industrial applications in recent decades. In most systems, the functional performance of these parts is directly related to the conformity of their profile with the des...

Title: RAPID AND DYNAMIC LOAD TESTING OF INSTRUMENTED PZ27 STEEL SHEET PILES
Author: Rice, Corey
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Pile foundations are typically used for structures underlain by weaker soils in order to increase the soil resistance and, subsequently, the axial capacity. In bridge abutments, sheet piles are typically used as facing elements for soil retention ...

Title: Recycled Brick Masonry Aggregate Concrete: Use of Recycled Aggregates from Demolished Brick Masonry Construction in Structural and Pavement Grade Portland Cement Concrete
Author: Cavalline, Tara
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Reuse of construction waste as aggregates is becoming increasingly popular for a number of environmental and economic reasons. In this study, structural- and pavement-grade portland cement concrete (PCC) mixtures were developed using crushed recyc...

Title: STUDY OF CO2 INJECTION AT CITRONELLE OIL FIELD USING LUMPED MASS MODELING AND FIELD DATA VALIDATION
Author: Liu, Yangguang
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geophysics
Description: Carbon sequestration in geological formation is an ongoing effort of the research community to address the issue of curbing excessive anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This dissertation focuses on the development of a theoretical framework in establish...

Title: Structural Identification and Vibration-Based Damage Detection Using Interval Arithmetic and Contractor Programming
Author: Kernicky, Timothy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Structural identification continues to gain increased attention as an applied technique for structural health monitoring and condition assessment. However, methods for structural identification through finite element model updating that have been ...

Title: Synthesis of Layered Double Hydroxides to Sequester Halides from Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater Concentrate
Author: Manikonda, Abhisek
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: An emerging strategy for the management of flue gas desulfurization wastewater involves volume reduction of the wastewater by concentrating to brine and then mixing the brine with fly ash and other chemical additives to form a paste suitable for l...

Title: TERRESTRIAL LIDAR-BASED BRIDGE EVALUATION
Author: Liu, Wanqiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Considering the over half million bridges in the US state highway system, more than 70% of which were built before 1935, it is of little wonder that bridge maintenance and management is facing severe challenges and the significant funding scarcity...

Title: Thermo-Mechanical Performance of Doweled Connections in Tall Timber Buildings
Author: Shabanian, Milad
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Innovations in engineered wood products have led to an increased interest in the design and construction of high-rise timber buildings. However, concerns arise when considering the fire safety of tall timber structures. Similar to other types of s...

Title: Travel Time Forecasting on a Freeway Corridor: a Dynamic Information Fusion Model based on the Machine Learning Approaches
Author: Qiu, Bo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: Metropolitan areas suffer from frequent road traffic congestion not only during peak hours but also during off-peak periods. Currently, the increasing availability of vehicle probe data has made the real-time travel time prediction a reality. The ...

Title: Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
Author: Barancheshme, Fateme
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...

Title: WATER REPELLENCY EFFECT ON UNSATURATED PROPERTIES OF COMPACTED COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS
Author: Dumenu, Livingstone
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The generation of electricity from coal-fired power plants continue to be a mainstream approach. It is estimated that about 107 million tons of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) were generated in 2017 in the US (ACAA 2018). This equal amount of CCR...

Title: Web-GIS Based Bridge Information Database Visualization Analytics and Distributed Sensing Framework
Author: Tong, Yonghong
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The national bridge system plays very important role in society operations ensuring mobilities that can sustain social and economic growth. Recent increasingly growing concerns about the safety of existing bridges are shared by highway agencies at...