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Title: Benchmarking for Action & Satisfaction in Facility Operations & Maintenance
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While benchmarking is a well-established strategy that organizations have been using to manage performance and seek continual improvement for almost 4 decades, the field of facility management has only started using benchmarking in the last 20 yea...

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: ELECTRO-ELASTICITY SENSING IN AXIALLY-LOADED CONCRETE USING RECYCLED STEEL RESIDUALS AS FUNCTIONAL FILL
Author: Scott, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Civil engineering
Description: Self-sensing concrete is embedded with electrostrictive materials that provides indications of strain based on variations in electrical conductivity, or its inverse, resistance. Previous works includes embedded material that vary in size from nano...

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: Optimal variable speed limit control for mixed traffic flows in a connected and autonomous vehicle environment
Author: Yu, Miao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Traffic demand grows rapidly over the past decades around the world, which leads to severe traffic congestion problems. Congestion has numerous negative effects, such as wasting time of drivers and passengers, increasing delays, decreasing travel ...

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: SAFER FOR CYCLING: EVALUATING SAFETY AND OPERATIONAL EFFECTS OF PROTECTED INTERSECTION GEOMETRIC DESIGN THROUGH MICROSIMULATION
Author: Preston, Abigail
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Sustainability
Description: On-street bike lanes have been increasingly visible in the City of Charlotte but rarely utilized. The Charlotte Bikes bicycle program, adopted by City Council May, 2017, proposed that bicycle facilities implemented on arterials should be separated...

Title: SCAN-BIM-FEA A STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION IN A CURTAIN WALL
Author: Patil, Gouree Prakash
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Agricultural engineering
Description: Evaluating the structural integrity of curtain walls during the life cycle of a building project can assist architects in developing better designs, inform manufacturers on the needs to produce stronger building elements, help contractors establis...

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: WEIGHT FACTOR DETERMINATION AND FUND ALLOCATION OF PAVEMENTS BY COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Author: Patil, Chaitali Ramakant
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the most efficient and ideal weight factors by performing the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) using the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Pavement Management System (PMS) and using the idea...