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Title: Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...

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: 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: 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: DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRANSMISSION POLE STRUCTURES UNDER BLASTING INDUCED GROUND VIBRATION
Author: Dai, Kaoshan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Structural integrity of electric transmission poles is crucial for the reliability of power delivery. In some areas where blasting is used for mining or construction, these structures are endangered if they are located close to blasting sites. Thr...

Title: Short Term Ex-ante Load Forecasting
Author: Li, Yike
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is a conventional process at power companies to serve for better decision-making in their daily operations. Weather factors play a key role in STLF. In practice, an online STLF system typically requires the use o...

Title: Integrated Facade Simulator: Dynamic Tool to Study The Impact of Solar Radiation on Human Facade Interaction
Author: Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi, Amir
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Scandinavian literature
Description: Today, people are spending more than 90% of their time indoors, that has a great influence on their well-being and visual and thermal satisfaction. In addition, the building sector, as a major urban infrastructure, consumes about 40% of global pro...

Title: The impact of connected and autonomous vehicles on the performance of superstreets
Author: Liu, Shaojie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a type of emerging technology that has promising potentials in improving many aspects of the existing transportation infrastructure, including operations, safety, and the environment. With the capabilit...

Title: Development of a Survival Based Framework for Bridge Deterioration Modeling with Large-scale Application to the North Carolina Bridge Management System
Author: Goyal, Raka
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This dissertation presents the development and implementation of a comprehensive automated software framework for probabilistic bridge deterioration modeling that takes into account the time dependent nature of deterioration as well as the impact ...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: An Examination of the Impact of Urbanization on Stream Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Author: ROUX, ANTHONY
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Entomology
Description: The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime that is associated with urbanization. These negative impacts include increases...

Title: A MULTI-PHYSICS STUDY ON GAS DIFFUSION AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN CEMENT MATERIAL WITH CO2 SORPTION
Author: Wang, Peng
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Emission control and storage of carbon dioxide (CO¬2) from fossil fuel combustion is an emerging and frontier research area to counter likely global climate changes. Although the carbon dioxide separation techniques are quite mature, there is stil...

Title: BIOKINETIC PROCESSES OF EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDE (EPS) STABILIZATION OF SURFACE SOILS AGAINST DUST GENERATION
Author: Zebulun, Humphrey
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Extracellular polysaccharide produced by a oligotrophic and nonpathogenic bacteria, Arthrobacter viscosus, promises to be an effective alternative to the use of chemical substances in dust control on exposed soil surfaces. The feasibility of this ...

Title: ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS IN LIDAR TECHNOLOGY: APPLICATION ENHANCEMENT, INSPECTION WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION AND DATA COLLECTION QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Author: Bian, Haitao
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Bridge inspection is a critical topic in infrastructure management and is facing unprecedented challenges as the public is concerned more about bridge safety after a series of bridge failures. LiDAR based remote sensing is recommended as a way in ...

Title: ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
Author: Johnson, Bradley
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology
Description: Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...

Title: Applying Travel Time Reliability Measures in Identifying and Ranking Freeway Bottlenecks at the Network Level
Author: Gong, Linfeng
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The continuing growth of traffic congestion on U.S. roadways has become an increasing concern for both travelers and transportation agencies. According to the Texas Transportation Institute’s estimate, the total financial cost of congestion in the...

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: 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: 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...