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Title: Determination and Evaluation of Inputs for Portland Cement Concrete Pavement to Support Local Calibration of MEPDG for North Carolina
Author: Blanchard, Edward
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) is a state-of-the-practice tool that is used for the analysis and design of pavements, using mechanical and statistical models that have been developed over the past several decades for the p...

Title: Design of a 4D Deliverable for Construction Schedule Updates
Author: DeWitt, Savannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Advancements in digital technology within the construction industry have significantly impacted the way in which the built environment comes to fruition. The use of 4D technology provides enhanced communication of the plan of action established by...

Title: THE ADVANCED MANIPULATION OF AN ELECTROSPRAYED DIELECTRIC
Author: Garris, Robert
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the control of sprayed gasoline using electric fields. This research was separated into three main parts including: charge repeatability, charge magnitude, and control of a sprayed injection. Using ...

Title: Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Author: Henry, Maxwell
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: This thesis focuses upon using a high-order finite-difference method on a structured overset grid to study flow features around a generic simplified car model adjusting mesh refinements, rear slant angles, solvers, and turbulence models. These pro...

Title: PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AND MEASURES FOR PRIORITIZATION OF BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS
Author: Lane, Kelsey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: State highway agencies (SHA) are tasked with maintaining, repairing, and replacing bridges to support the travelling public. These agencies need to develop programs that prioritize candidate projects in a manner that ensures that bridges are selec...

Title: SHORT TERM LOAD FORECASTING WITH RECENCY EFFECT: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Liu, Bidong
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with high resolution is available than ever before. Meanwhile, with development o...

Title: Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
Author: Maharjan, Rabindra
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: THE APPLICABILITY OF FREE-FIELD ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES TO QUALITY INSPECTION OF ROTATING MACHINERY
Author: Paustian, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Sound
Description: Quality assessment tools are used to increase productivity of a production line by ensuring that the produced item is fit for consumer use. In order for a quality inspection tool to be useful, the process must not affect the item and should not si...

Title: Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
Author: Poudel, Bikash
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...

Title: Dynamic Remedial Action Scheme Using Online Transient Stability Analysis
Author: Shrestha, Arun
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Economic pressure and environmental factors have forced the modern power systems to operate closer to their stability limits. However, maintaining transient stability is a fundamental requirement for the operation of interconnected power systems. ...

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: REPLACEMENT OF HUMAN OPERATOR WITH VISION-GUIDED ROBOT FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PICK-AND-PLACE WORK CELL
Author: Vutetakis, David
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics
Description: Picking and placing parts is a fundamental operation involved in circuit board manufacturing and assembly plants. Pin thru-hole (PTH) components with non-standard features are incompatible with most existing high speed pick-and-place systems; this...

Title: Pyrolysis and Combustion Properties of Selected Structural Fuels in Residential Buildings
Author: Yang, Wenxu
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Forests and forestry
Description: Firebrands are a major ignition source in large scale wildland and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Limited studies have been reported regarding firebrand generation. It was hypothesized that firebrand production characteristics can be descri...