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Author:: Rathod, Yogesh
Title:: EVALUATION OF SEISMIC STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY METHODOLOGIES USING NON-STATIONARY SIMULATED GROUND MOTIONS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Fragility
IDA
Cloud Method
Softmax Regression
File:: Download Yogesh_Rathod_MS_Thesis_Civil_Engineering_Department.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Hitchcock, Owen Martin
Title:: Methods to reduce dimensionality and identify candidate solutions in multi-objective signal timing problems
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: multi-objective optimization
traffic signal timing
optimal solution
File:: Download Thesis_revised.pdf
Committee Members:: Vikash Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member

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Author:: Berman, Danielle Hope
Title:: Public Opinion Regarding Autonomous Vehicle Privacy and Security
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: autonomous vehicles
public opinion
survey
privacy
cybersecurity
File:: Download Berman_MastersThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Martin T Pietrucha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member

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Author:: Kermani, Elnaz
Title:: SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Discrete Element Method
Dynamic Collapse
Energy Dissipation
Granular Flow
Quasi-Static Collapse
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
File:: Download Elnaz_Kermani.pdf
Committee Members:: Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member

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Author:: Kermani, Behnoud
Title:: Experimental and Numerical Study of Subgrade Soil Migration into Pavement Subbase and Mitigation Using Geotextile
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Cyclic loading; Faulting; Flexible pavement; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; MMLS3; Particle transport; Pore water pressure; Pumping; Rigid pavement; Rutting; Subgrade fines migration; Traffic loading
File:: Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Behnoud_Kermani__bzk5102_.pdf
Committee Members:: Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Lin, Xu
Title:: IMPROVING THE LOCATION OF TEMPORARY PARKING SPOTS FOR TOURIST BUSES IN DOWNTOWN BEIJING
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: PARKING SPOTS
TOURIST BUSES
LOCATION
IMPROVEMENT
SIMULATION
VISSIM
ATTRACTIONS
File:: Download Master_Thesis__Xu_Lin_.pdf
Committee Members:: Sukran Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member

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Author:: Ma, Yuetan
Title:: THE EFFECTS OF FLUID’S PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS ON PIPING EROSION PROGRESSION OF A SILTY SAND
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Piping erosion
Viscosity
pH
Ionic strength
Hole erosion test
Erosion rate index
Physicochemical effect
File:: Download Yuetan_Ma_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Nazari, Saharnaz
Title:: IDENTIFYING BALLAST FOULING USING STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES ON SMARTROCK DATA
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Ballast Fouling
Railway
SmartRock
Statistical Pattern Recognition Analysis
File:: Download final_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Hai Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Xinli Wu, Committee Member

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Author:: Dorley, Jancoba K
Title:: Understanding the relationship between climate change and concentration-discharge discharge: Agricutural Nitrate in the clear creek watershed.
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Concentration-discharge Dynamic
Nitrate export
Time series analysis
Climate projections
File:: Download Dorley_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cibin Raj, Committee Member

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Author:: Khosrojerdi, Mahsa
Title:: SERVICE LIMIT STATE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERED FILLS FOR BRIDGE SUPPORT
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Finite difference simulation
Geosynthetics
GRS abutment
Lateral deformation
Prediction equation
Regression analysis
Sensitivity analysis
Settlement
RSF
File:: Download Dissertation-Mahsa_Khosrojerdi__2018_.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Dr. Patrick J. Fox, Committee Member
Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Outside Member

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