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Title: A Study on Soil-Structure Interaction of Axially Loaded Sheet Piles
Author: Sylvain, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Sheet piles are geotechnical structural elements often used in canals and rivers for soil retention and scour protection. Short span bridge abutment design in North Carolina and the U.S., for locations near bodies of water, typically uses sheet pi...

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: 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: 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: 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...

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: MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION WASTEWATER SEQUESTERED IN THE ALKALI-ACTIVATED FLY ASH MATRIX
Author: Ghaempanah Tajabadi, Morteza
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Geopolymers can be categorized as synthetic zeolitic monoliths. The amorphous structure of this material is developed by dissolution of an aluminate and silicate-rich source, like fly ash, in a highly alkaline solution and then interlinking and cr...

Title: PERFORMANCE OF DRILLED SHAFT FOUNDATIONS SUPPORTING COASTAL MAST ARM TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND HIGHWAY SIGN STRUCTURES
Author: Rodriguez, Carlos
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Mast arm traffic signals and cantilever highway signs have an inverted L-shaped structure and this geometry results in high loading demand to their support foundations when subjected to high wind loading. This MS thesis is motivated by an NCDOT re...

Title: Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
Author: Kumar, Amit
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...

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: Quantification of Profile Measurement Data
Author: Javidpour, Farid
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mathematics, Civil engineering
Description: Parts with complicated freeform shapes have been attracting more attention in industrial applications in recent decades. In most systems, the functional performance of these parts is directly related to the conformity of their profile with the des...

Title: Thermal Performance of Precast Concrete Connections Exposed to Fire
Author: Blackstone, Jonathan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Today, most structural design for fire is governed by the International Building Code. Prescriptive code has proven to be efficient and simple to employ for structural design purposes. However, critical connecting elements in structures can be lef...

Title: Using Customer Satisfaction Measurements To Build a Stronger Business Case
Author: Mambalum Mahendrababu, Monisha
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Customer satisfaction has been talked about for centuries. While the use of it in the industry as a performance measurement tool to communicate value to the owners has come to light in the recent years, the use of customer satisfaction measurement...

Title: WATER REPELLENCY EFFECT ON UNSATURATED PROPERTIES OF COMPACTED COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS
Author: Dumenu, Livingstone
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The generation of electricity from coal-fired power plants continue to be a mainstream approach. It is estimated that about 107 million tons of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) were generated in 2017 in the US (ACAA 2018). This equal amount of CCR...