The facilities management industry witnessed substantial growth over the years, leading to a notable increase in professionals with various skills necessary for filling e[...]

In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for de[...]

The last decade has witnessed tremendous advances in cloud computing, IoT, and computer vision. IoT computer vision brings powerful capabilities that enables society to t[...]

Surface resistivity testing is a state-of-the-art method of testing concrete’s ability to resist chloride ion penetration. This electrical test is performed by passing an[...]

Mechanical vibrations are a part of several industrial equipment,machinery, systems and vehicles being used in our day to day life. Damping of such unwanted vibrations ha[...]

Economic pressure and environmental factors have forced the modern power systems to operate closer to their stability limits. However, maintaining transient stability is [...]

Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) provide a variety of benefits to fresh and hardened concrete. These materials can be found in naturally occurring substances o[...]

In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as th[...]

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 m[...]

Using Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth (CCW) framework, this qualitative case study (conducted through a federally-funded grant) explored the experiences of eight[...]