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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: Current state of practice for condition assessment methods and the facility condition index as a measure
Author: Karanja, Pauline
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Buildings deteriorate for various reasons which include age, overcapacity, and lack of planning and preventative maintenance. Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) are used to measure this deterioration with the aim of collecting data to determine...

Title: PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AND MEASURES FOR PRIORITIZATION OF BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS
Author: Lane, Kelsey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: State highway agencies (SHA) are tasked with maintaining, repairing, and replacing bridges to support the travelling public. These agencies need to develop programs that prioritize candidate projects in a manner that ensures that bridges are selec...

Title: Predicting costs for bridge replacement projects
Author: Phillips, Patrick
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) uses historical highway bridge records to make cost-effective decisions on which maintenance, repair, or replacement action is appropriate for a deficient bridge. The current method for estim...

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: 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: Freeze-Thaw Durability Specification for Highway Concrete
Author: Ocampo, Joseph
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The Super Air Meter (SAM) is a new method of testing that correlates to how well concrete can resist damage from freeze-thaw stresses. This test is a modified Type B pressure meter that undergoes a set of sequential pressure steps. The equilibrium...

Title: Development of a Surface Resistivity Specification for Durable Concrete
Author: Biggers, Robert
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Surface resistivity testing is a state-of-the-art method of testing concrete’s ability to resist chloride ion penetration. This electrical test is performed by passing an electrical current through a saturated concrete specimen, and has recently g...

Title: Development of Early-Age and Shrinkage Specifications for Durable Concrete
Author: McEntyre, Memoree
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Historically, concrete strength has been one of the primary properties specified to ensure concrete quality. As the construction industry advances, owners and major stakeholders are increasingly desiring longer lasting, durable concrete pavements ...

Title: Comparative Analysis for Reuse & Disposal of Concrete Residuals from Hydrodemolition, Diamond Grinding, & Diamond Grooving Operations
Author: Albergo, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Large quantities of concrete residual slurries, solids, and liquids are currently being produced from hydrodemolition, diamond grinding, and diamond grooving operations within North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and...

Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLAZING ALTERNATIVES – A CASE STUDY OF TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIALS
Author: Adara, Mojisola
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: ABSTRACTThe demand on energy consumption is ever increasing, making it necessary to develop appropriate materials that can help maintain consumption levels. Windows in a building are very susceptible to heat loss and heat gain, which cause fluctua...

Title: A METHODOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND DISTRESS MODELS FOR A PMS USING AUTOMATED DATA
Author: Dye, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Automated pavement data collection technologies have gained momentum due to the fact that the automated data have more detail, greater quantity, better quality, and better repeatability. A systematic method of developing performance and distress m...

Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR CONDITION ASSESSMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR THE MARINE (FERRY) INDUSTRY
Author: Raja, Daxil
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Marine engineering
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry Service (NCFS) Division is responsible for extensive infrastructure which includes numerous assets. As with any organization with an extensive list of assets, it ...

Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR LONG TERM ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN USING ASSET PRIORITY INDEX AND CONDITION INDEX FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA FERRY SYSTEM
Author: Subramanian, Balagee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Management, Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry System combined have many assets in place. This thesis primarily concerns the North Carolina Ferry System (NCFS). The NCFS has a sizable number of assets and a lo...

Title: Guidance for Use of Construction and Industrial Waste By-products in Concrete
Author: Bansal, Akshay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This thesis presents a study to synthesize the published literature regarding the use of construction and industrial waste by-product as cement or aggregate in concrete, and aims to incorporate this knowledge along with findings of an agency and i...

Title: Manpower and Efficiency Study of the Manns Harbor Shipyard through Data Envelopment Analysis
Author: Morgan, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Operations research
Description: The NCDOT Ferry Division (NCDOT-FD) self-performs preventative maintenance, emergency maintenance, and scheduled overhauls on a continual basis with manpower staffing to support the North Carolina Ferry Service’s (NCFS) ability to continue to oper...

Title: Internally Cured Concrete Mixtures and Specifications for Highway Infrastructure
Author: Leach, Jacob
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Internal curing is a relatively simple approach to reduce the shrinkage and cracking potential of concrete mixtures, accomplished by placing reservoirs of water within the concrete to provide additional moisture to facilitate hydration of the ceme...

Title: Load Rating for North Carolina Legal Vehicles
Author: Weiger, Jason
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Bridge load rating is the process by which the continued health and capacity of bridges are determined by state authorities. This process was established after the collapse of the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River due to overloading resulted in 46...

Title: Development of a Highway Maintenance Cost Index
Author: Riccio, Austin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation records maintenance activities performed in house, but does not have an efficient way of forecasting future costs. The problem with not having an efficient way to forecast future highway maintenance ...

Title: Development of Phasor Measurement Unit for low voltage power networks
Author: Phatak, Ashutosh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: With the increase in technological advances of the smart grid, distribution systems have undergone a great change the same as transmission systems: new technology, different types of load, demand response supporting facilities, large quantities of...