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Title: PERFORMANCE OF DRILLED SHAFT FOUNDATIONS SUPPORTING COASTAL MAST ARM TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND HIGHWAY SIGN STRUCTURES
Author: Rodriguez, Carlos
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Mast arm traffic signals and cantilever highway signs have an inverted L-shaped structure and this geometry results in high loading demand to their support foundations when subjected to high wind loading. This MS thesis is motivated by an NCDOT re...

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: POST-DISASTER INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES IN EASTERN INDIA AT VISAKHAPATNAM AFTER VERY SEVERE CYCLONE HUDHUD
Author: ALHAIDER, IBRAHEEM
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This thesis reports a systematic post-disaster assessment of structures after the Very Severe Cyclone (VSC) Hudhud in eastern India during October 2014, which is the strongest storm event to hit any Indian city. Started as a tropical storm in the ...

Title: POST-DISASTER INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES IN THE PHILIPPINES (LEYTE AND EAST SAMAR) AFTER SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN
Author: CALVO, JOSEPH
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This thesis reports the procedures, logistics and findings of an assessment of damaged structures following Super Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Hurricane Yolanda) in the Philippines. The investigation project entailed the coordination of the logis...

Title: PREDICTING THE UNLOADING BEHAVIOR OF MONOTONICALLY AND LATERALLY LOADED SLENDER PILES USING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND P-Y CURVES
Author: Hubbard, Peter
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The use of p-y curves is heavily engrained into geotechnical engineering practice. However, even with the prevalent use of p-y curves, these are only used to model the loading portion and not the unloading of a load test or loading demand in the f...

Title: Performance of Portland cement concrete containing chemically beneficiated high loss on ignition fly ashes with air entrainment
Author: Ojo, Taye
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The use of fly ash as a partial replacement of Portland cement in concrete production has been widely accepted and has been proven to be a successful practice that enables production of economical durable concrete. However, following the Clean Air...

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: Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
Author: Kumar, Amit
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...

Title: Production of volatile fatty acids by fermentation of anaerobic mixed liquor for enhanced biological phosphorus removal
Author: Tremblay, Sonia
Date Created: 2005, 2005, 2005
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Eutrophication, Sewage disposal plants
Description: Full-scale demonstration testing was conducted to evaluate a side-stream anaerobic mixed liquor fermentation process for internal generation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) in a biological nutrient removal (BNR) process. The trials were performed a...

Title: Puerto Rico Grid Resilience Assessment Using Binomial Analysis Following Hurricane Maria Considering Storm Effects
Author: Ng, Yenki
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Hurricane Maria was proven to be a very devastating storm in recent history. Ranked as the third costliest storm in the United States, Maria accumulated up to $90 billion in damages and accounted for at least 3,000 deaths. These deaths were primar...

Title: QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF USE OF PORTLAND LIMESTONE CEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
Author: Chimmula, Rohit Reddy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Production of portland cement contributes significantly to global carbon emissions. In order to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and to construct more sustainable highway infrastructure, blended cements are increasingly being utilized in pa...

Title: Quality Assurance of Bridge Deck Concrete Overlays using Surface Resistivity Testing
Author: Dillworth, David
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Through years of heavy usage, critical transportation components such as bridge decks are repeatedly subjected to stresses from freeze-thaw cycles, chemical attack and the physical loads. These continual stresses and deterioration mechanisms actin...

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: SAFER FOR CYCLING: EVALUATING SAFETY AND OPERATIONAL EFFECTS OF PROTECTED INTERSECTION GEOMETRIC DESIGN THROUGH MICROSIMULATION
Author: Preston, Abigail
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Sustainability
Description: On-street bike lanes have been increasingly visible in the City of Charlotte but rarely utilized. The Charlotte Bikes bicycle program, adopted by City Council May, 2017, proposed that bicycle facilities implemented on arterials should be separated...

Title: SCAN-BIM-FEA A STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION IN A CURTAIN WALL
Author: Patil, Gouree Prakash
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Agricultural engineering
Description: Evaluating the structural integrity of curtain walls during the life cycle of a building project can assist architects in developing better designs, inform manufacturers on the needs to produce stronger building elements, help contractors establis...

Title: SETTING APPROPRIATE BENEFIT/CONDITION JUMPS FOR PAVEMENT TREATMENTS
Author: Khan, Salman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: This research was conducted to determine pavement performance jumps after treatment, which are defined as the difference between pre-treatment and post-treatment Pavement Condition Rating (PCR) values. the North Carolina Department of Transportati...

Title: STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF A FULL-SCALE TIED ARCH BRIDGE SPAN USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS
Author: Salas Zamudio, Neal
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Fostered by advancements in computational capabilities and the development of low-cost structural health monitoring systems, structural identification has emerged as a promising experimental technique offering contributions to several applications...

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...