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- Title
- A METHODOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND DISTRESS MODELS FOR A PMS USING AUTOMATED DATA
- Author
- Dye, Michael
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Automated pavement data collection technologies have gained momentum due to the fact that the automated data have more detail, greater quantity, better quality, and better repeatability. A systematic method of developing performance and distress m...
- Title
- An Investigation on the Strength and Moisture Density Relationships of Soils Treated with Organo Silanes as a Function of Moisture and Salt Content
- Author
- Malisher, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- MACKENZIE MALISHER. An Investigation on the Strength and Moisture Density Relationships of Soils Treated with Organo Silanes as a Function of Moisture and Salt Content. (Under the direction of Dr. John Daniels)Organo silanes (OS) are chemical agen...
- 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
- Bridge Selection Process And Workflow Development for UAS- Enabled Bridge Inspection
- Author
- Wu, Tau
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- ABSTRACTTAU WU. Bridge Selection Process and Workflow Development for UAS-Enabled Bridge Inspection. (Under the direction of DR. TARA L. CAVALLINE) The application and use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) has become integrated into everyday opera...
- Title
- CRONBACH'S COEFFICIENT AS A PERFORMANCE MEASURE TO ASSESS LINK-LEVEL RELIABILITY
- Author
- Puvvala, Ravi Kiran
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Travel time reliability is commonly used in reference to the level of consistency in transportation service for a trip, corridor, mode or route in terms of its travel time. Typically, reliability is viewed by motorists in relation to their past ex...
- Title
- Chemical Characterization of Recycled Concrete Aggregates Using a Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence Device
- Author
- Dey, Arindam
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) are an important source of material that can be used in construction to mitigate the problems associated with use of virgin aggregates. The volume of waste generated by the construction industry is increasing at ...
- 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
- 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
- DETERMINATION OF COMPOSITE PAVEMENT DISTRESSES IN NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Sands, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Composite pavements have gained popularity in the last fifty years due to their smooth riding surface and heavy capacity substructure. A systematic method of determining the triggering distress is lacking. With a triggering distress found, the mai...
- Title
- DISTRESS DETECTION OF ROAD IMAGES USING DEEP LEARNING
- Author
- Goud, Rishabh Sanjay
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- The NCDOT road survey involves capturing images of highway and later processing to determine an overall pavement performance. Terabytes of data is captured even over a small highway section, therefore, there is a need to find better solutions to p...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Development of Early-Age and Shrinkage Specifications for Durable Concrete
- Author
- McEntyre, Memoree
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Historically, concrete strength has been one of the primary properties specified to ensure concrete quality. As the construction industry advances, owners and major stakeholders are increasingly desiring longer lasting, durable concrete pavements ...
- 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
- EVALUATING CORROSIVE SITE PERFORMANCE AND POLICY WITH CONCRETE ADMIXTURES
- Author
- Violette, Keith
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- The coastline of North Carolina (NC) is home to a large number of state-owned concrete structures such as bridges that can be adversely affected by the aggressive, chloride-rich environments in which they are constructed. To delay the corrosion-re...
- Title
- EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PAVEMENT DISTRESS AND PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING AUTOMATED ASPHALT CONDITION DATA
- Author
- James, Steven
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation
- Description
- Since 2011, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has implemented an automated data collection process for their Pavement Management System (PMS). This study was conducted to update NCDOT’s PMS with the availability of new automa...
- 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
- Effects of space per occupant on janitorial and maintenance costs across the North America, Asia, and Middle East
- Author
- Rathod, Bhagyashree Uttam
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- BHAGYASHREE UTTAM RATHOD. Effects of Space per Occupant on Janitorial and Maintenance Costs across the North America, Asia and Middle East. (Under the direction of DR. JAKE SMITHWICK) This study explores the relationship between space per occupant...
- Title
- Electrical Behavior During Cooling of Conductive Concrete
- Author
- Alhakim, MHD ALi
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Self-sensing concrete consists of embedded conductive materials allowing enhanced electric conductivity for assessing mechanical properties. This thesis describes the design of a self-sensing concrete with steel fabrication waste and the detection...