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- 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 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
- Bridge Selection Process And Workflow Development for UAS- Enabled Bridge Inspection
- Author
- Wu, Tau
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- ABSTRACTTAU WU. Bridge Selection Process and Workflow Development for UAS-Enabled Bridge Inspection. (Under the direction of DR. TARA L. CAVALLINE) The application and use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) has become integrated into everyday opera...
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Title
- Energy loss due to traffic congestion
- Author
- Gouribhatla, Raghuveer Prasad
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Civil engineering
- Description
- Traffic congestion is a problem related not only to traffic characteristics but also to several other factors which are of growing concern to the society. Traffic delays lead to increased fuel consumption and there by increased energy loss. This r...
- Title
- Evaluating Corrosive Site Performance, Service Life, and Policy of Coastal Bridges
- Author
- Al-Salihi, Taiseer
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Many state-owned concrete structures, such as bridges, line the coast of North Carolina (NC), and these structures are vulnerable to corrosion and degradation in the aggressive, chloride-rich environments where they were built. The North Carolina ...
- Title
- Examining the Association Between Bus Transit Reliability and Ridership
- Author
- Jayanthi, Lakshmi Sravya
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- The road infrastructure has not been developed at the rate of growing travel demand in many cities in the United States, mainly due to space and resource constraints. Practitioners are exploring means to increase public transportation ridership wi...
- Title
- Experimental Evaluation of Low-Cost, Portable, and Rapid Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Timber Distribution Poles
- Author
- Barber, Erica
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Power line workers have long been required to climb timber utility poles to perform maintenance. Although routine pole inspection and maintenance programs are in place to optimize asset management and reduce the risk posed to workers, such work co...
- Title
- Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method
- Author
- Coe, Corbin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
- Description
- CORBIN COE. Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method(Under the direction of DR. NICOLE BRAXTAN)In 2006, Tesla announced the first fully electric lithium-ion battery ...