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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: RAPID AND DYNAMIC LOAD TESTING OF INSTRUMENTED PZ27 STEEL SHEET PILES
Author: Rice, Corey
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Pile foundations are typically used for structures underlain by weaker soils in order to increase the soil resistance and, subsequently, the axial capacity. In bridge abutments, sheet piles are typically used as facing elements for soil retention ...

Title: Puerto Rico Grid Resilience Assessment Using Binomial Analysis Following Hurricane Maria Considering Storm Effects
Author: Ng, Yenki
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Hurricane Maria was proven to be a very devastating storm in recent history. Ranked as the third costliest storm in the United States, Maria accumulated up to $90 billion in damages and accounted for at least 3,000 deaths. These deaths were primar...

Title: REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE TRANSPORTATION FUELS – PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Author: Liu, Xiaoshuai
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Environmental economics, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: The transportation sector contributes more than a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable fuels can be a key solution to mitigate GHG emissions from the transportation sector. Particularly, we have foc...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: IMPACT OF CONCRETE MIXTURE DESIGN PARAMETERS ON EARLY AGE CHARACTERISTICS AND LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES AND PAVEMENTS
Author: Lukavsky, Austin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) maintains databases with information on the mixture design proportions, early age test results, and information about bridges and pavement sections throughout the state. Recent initiatives ar...

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: Geotechnical Controls on Organo-Silane Modification of Soils and Coal Combustion Fly Ash
Author: Keatts, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Organo-silane (OS) surface modification works by chemically altering the surface of silica based materials and rendering them hydrophobic (waterproof). Limited research is present in the literature addressing the use of OS modified soils as an inf...

Title: LEACHABILITY AND SORPTIVITY OF INCINERATED BIOSOLID ASH
Author: Boivin, William
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental geology
Description: The byproduct of incinerated biosolids (biosolid ash) was evaluated for land application through laboratory and field testing of leachability and sorption capacity. Field testing involved vacuum lysimeters that were installed to monitor the leacha...

Title: LABORATORY EVALUATION OF THE UNCONFINED COMPRESSION STRENGTH OF POLYMERIC FIBER REINFORCED SOILS
Author: Kral, Robert
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Soil science, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Geosynthetic fiber reinforced soil can be used to remediate weak, near-surface soils. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that the geofibers had on the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of various soil types. To distinguish t...