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Title: ALTERNATE ENGINE PARAMETERS FOR MODELING OIL QUALITY
Author: Trammel, Jacob
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Oil changes in equipment is one of the most common preventative maintenance (PM) practices performed in fleet management. In addition to being a frequent cost item, the opportunity to optimize intervals could provide significant PM cost savings to...

Title: Comparative Analysis for Reuse & Disposal of Concrete Residuals from Hydrodemolition, Diamond Grinding, & Diamond Grooving Operations
Author: Albergo, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Large quantities of concrete residual slurries, solids, and liquids are currently being produced from hydrodemolition, diamond grinding, and diamond grooving operations within North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and...

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: EVALUATION OF CONSTRUCTION STORMWATER RUNOFF TURBIDITY: STATE-LEVEL TRENDS AND FORECAST OF FUTURE IMPACTS
Author: Manickavelu, Arunan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management
Description: Construction and development projects alter an environment from its natural state into a man-made setting. Construction land use areas have been found to contribute the highest sediment loading to urban runoff when compared to loadings from other ...

Title: Engineering Characterization of Tire Derived Aggregate for Geotechnical Applications
Author: Garcia-Theran, Mauricio
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: According to the Rubber Manufacture Association about 230.7 million scrap tires are generated in the United States every year. Reduction of scrap tire disposal, through recycling and reutilization, has become an important environmental priority. I...

Title: Evaluating Co-Creation In Collaborative Drawing Using Creative Thinking Modes
Author: Algarni, Ali
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Co-creation is a form of collaboration in which partners share, improve and blend ideas together to develop a creative product. It helps to share ideas and solve problems in a creative manner. Several co-creativity research works have focused on g...

Title: Evaluating Organizational Readiness to Implement Change Within the Workplace
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Organizational change is an initiative to transition from a current state to a desired future state, where the initiatives can be either planned or unplanned, based on motivational factors. This study evaluates the impact of organizational charact...

Title: Load Rating for North Carolina Legal Vehicles
Author: Weiger, Jason
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Bridge load rating is the process by which the continued health and capacity of bridges are determined by state authorities. This process was established after the collapse of the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River due to overloading resulted in 46...

Title: Maximizing Benchmarking Initiatives in the Built Environment for Sustained Continuous Improvement
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While continuous improvement initiatives such as benchmarking have a history of utilization for core business objectives, their successful utilization in the built environment industries, such as construction and facilities management is not nearl...

Title: Modeling the Thermal Characteristics of Masonry Mortar Containing Recycled Materials
Author: Laney, Morgan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: As the building industry in the United States rapidly expands, the reuse of recycled demolition waste aggregates is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, the building industry is the largest consumer of natural resources. The constant u...

Title: OPTIMIZING THE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES OF DOT PRODUCT EVALUATION PROGRAMS
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: State transportation agencies (STAs) implement countless transportation products that are identified, evaluated, and accepted through a Product Evaluation Program (PEP). Through an effective PEP, STAs can ensure the continuous availability of high...

Title: Structural Identification and Vibration-Based Damage Detection Using Interval Arithmetic and Contractor Programming
Author: Kernicky, Timothy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Structural identification continues to gain increased attention as an applied technique for structural health monitoring and condition assessment. However, methods for structural identification through finite element model updating that have been ...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INITIAL CONSTRUCTION IRI AND NETWORK IRI
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The main objectives of this study are to develop the relationship between initial IRI and network IRI and to predict service lives of pavements. The raw data used in this research, including IRI, pavement ages, Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT),...

Title: The Use of Lidar Point Cloud Data for Facilities Management
Author: Poulos, George
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTGEORGE POULOS. The Use of LiDAR Point Clouds for University Facilities Management (Under the direction of Dr. Glenda Mayo) The use of 3D LiDAR technology has been consistently in demand. 3D scans are used for many different applications in...