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- Title
- A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
- Author
- Alansari, Amir
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...
- Title
- A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
- Author
- Najaf, Pooya
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning
- Description
- The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...
- Title
- A Quantitative Analysis of Swimming Pool Recirculation System Efficiency in Returning Water to the Treatment System
- Author
- Madding, Nathan
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- While chemical reactors have been studied extensively, little work had been done in understanding the recirculation system efficiency of swimming pools. It was proposed by Gage and Bidwell (1926) that recirculation in swimming pools was described ...
- Title
- ASSESSING PASSENGER CAR/VEHICLE EQUIVALENT TRAVEL TIME OF A TRUCK
- Author
- Jain, Ravina
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- Freight transportation is an indicator of the regional economy. In the United States, transportation by trucks accounted for 63.8% of total freight during the year 2015. The demand for freight transportation is increasing from time to time. It is ...
- Title
- ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL BUS TRAFFIC USING MODELING SOFTWARE AND AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SIGNAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
- Author
- Dumitru, Andrei
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Transportation, Computer engineering
- Description
- Some of the least studied vehicle types in the urban and suburban traffic environment are school buses. Their dynamic deficiencies, as well as the two additional rules that govern their functionality versus other vehicles (no right-turn-on-red and...
- Title
- An Integrative Approach to Identify and Assess Streams Susceptible to Antibiotic Discharges
- Author
- Kamanmalek, Sara
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
- Description
- Occurrences of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have been reported in various environmental settings, posing a global concern due to associated human and ecological risks. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to develop a holistic a...
- Title
- An Investigation on the Strength and Moisture Density Relationships of Soils Treated with Organo Silanes as a Function of Moisture and Salt Content
- Author
- Malisher, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- MACKENZIE MALISHER. An Investigation on the Strength and Moisture Density Relationships of Soils Treated with Organo Silanes as a Function of Moisture and Salt Content. (Under the direction of Dr. John Daniels)Organo silanes (OS) are chemical agen...
- Title
- Bromide Removal from Drinking Water Sources Impaired by Energy Wastewater Discharge Using Electrically Conductive Membrane
- Author
- Das, Samonty
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- Bromide accelerates the formation of carcinogenic disinfection by-products (DBPs) during drinking water disinfection when it reacts with dissolved organic matter and disinfectants. The objective of this study is to develop an effective process to ...
- Title
- CRONBACH'S COEFFICIENT AS A PERFORMANCE MEASURE TO ASSESS LINK-LEVEL RELIABILITY
- Author
- Puvvala, Ravi Kiran
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Travel time reliability is commonly used in reference to the level of consistency in transportation service for a trip, corridor, mode or route in terms of its travel time. Typically, reliability is viewed by motorists in relation to their past ex...
- Title
- Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
- Author
- Bahrani, Babak
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Statistics
- Description
- Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...
- Title
- Cluster-based Composite Pavement Deterioration Modeling: A Framework for Incorporating Flooding
- Author
- Neema, Ishan
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering
- Description
- Pavement networks are among the most valuable highway assets for a nation asbillions of dollars have been invested every year in construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. These networks undergo deterioration over time due to traffic loading, ...
- Title
- Comparative evaluation of link travel time from different technologies and sources
- Author
- Pinnamaneni, Rahul Chowdary
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Accurate travel time information is required to efficiently plan and effectively manage transportation network. Technologies and data sources such as Bluetooth detectors and INRIX offer the potential to continuously collect the data and use it for...
- Title
- Comparison of Hydrogen Peroxide Quenching with Activated Carbon and Mineral Catalysts
- Author
- Gleason, Justine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering
- Description
- Advanced oxidation is an advanced water treatment process used for treating impaired drinking water sources, among other applications. Commonly, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used with ultraviolet (UV) light to create hydroxyl radicals that oxidize ...
- Title
- DEVELOPING A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FRAMEWORK IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS USING INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION CLASS (IFC) EXTENSION
- Author
- Shen, Zhenhua
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Civil engineering
- Description
- Highway-project data are being accumulated at a dramatic pace with the advance of information technology; consequently, the need for discovering useful knowledge among the historical data to prevent highway-project construction delay is increasing...
- Title
- DEVELOPMENT, VERIFICATION, AND VALIDATION OF AN APPLIED ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR GLASS LITE FRACTURE, FRAGMENTATION, AND DEBRIS FIELD PREDICTION
- Author
- Moss, Jonathan
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Engineering
- Description
- In the aftermath of an explosive event, forensic investigators are presented the challenge of characterizing the properties of the explosive device, including the charge size and epicenter of the detonation. Although surrounding infrastructure dam...
- Title
- DURABILITY OF PAVEMENT CONCRETE WITH REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT BY FLYASH AND PORTLAND LIMESTONE CEMENT
- Author
- Medlin, Clayton
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- The durability of concrete can be directly related to the permeability of the concrete. While the permeability is not the only characteristic that can relate to durability, it is amongst the most important predictors of service life. Lower permeab...
- Title
- Development of Bridge Management Tools for Predicting Bridge Replacement Projects
- Author
- Alar, Aidan
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- One of the responsibilities of the NCDOT is the prioritization of highway bridge replacement projects throughout the North Carolina transportation system. The Priority Rating Index (PRI) is a multi-criteria formula that is currently used to provid...
- Title
- Development, Verification, and Validation of a Hybrid Testing Framework for Latticed Structures with Nonlinear Geometric Effects
- Author
- Tedeschi, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanics, Engineering, Civil engineering
- Description
- Hybrid simulation is an increasingly popular experimental method for structural dynamics research, as it offers the realism and exploratory power of full-scale testing at a fraction of the cost and size by resolving a structural system into comple...
- 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...