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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: Exploring Relationships Between Travel Time Based Performance Measures
Author: Koilada, Krupanidhi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: Traffic congestion is a common problem on transportation networks in many urban areas. It causes delay, effecting the road users and their behavior. The road users always look to reduce their travel time and reach their destination on-time. Hence,...

Title: Hydration of Binary and Tertiary Fly ash and Quicklime Blended Cement Paste System
Author: Ojaruega, Akpovona
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The hydration kinetics in blended cementitious systems with fly ash are quite different from those in conventional cementitious systems. The pozzolanic nature of fly ash not only reduces the rate of hydration in cement-fly ash blends, but also rea...

Title: Laboratory Validation and Initial Field Evaluation of a Vibration-Based Technique for Condition Assessment of Timber Utility Poles
Author: Dulin, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: Timber is the most common material used for the utility poles that support the transmission and distribution lines of the electrical grid in the United States. Timber is well-suited for use in utility poles but is subject to decay from fungi and o...

Title: MOISTURE AND HEAVY METAL STABILIZATION FOR COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS USING SODIUM POLYACRYLATE
Author: Annamraju, Sai Sahithi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Due to the recent (2015) federal regulations pertaining to disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR) from electric utilities, methods to dewater the CCR impoundments, establish structural stability, and mitigate the leaching of heavy metals from...

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: 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: SPATIAL AND SITING ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS BASELOAD POWER GENERATION FOR NIGERIA
Author: Akinde, Adedolapo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Environmental management
Description: A new dawn in Nigeria’s power generation landscape requires renewable energy development. Episodic power supply, and too frequent outages characterizes the centralized power grid in Nigeria, thus frustrating efforts towards economic development. T...

Title: SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELING OF COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS CONSTITUENTS ON NATURAL HYDROUS FERRIC OXIDE
Author: Willoughby, Austin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Geochemistry
Description: Coal ash impoundments, along with other industrial and natural processes, can be sources of constituents of concern (COCs) to human health including arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), selenium (Se), and vanadium (V). Attempts to model the fate and trans...