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Author:

Bayrak, Murat

Title:

Location Selection and Investment Sequencing of Transit Priority Applications: A Network-Wide Optimization Approach

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Bi-level optimization
Transit signal prioirty
bus lane
investment sequencing

File:

Download Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sukran Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Piasente, Jonathon

Title:

Iron Sulfide Minerals in Concrete Aggregates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Aggregates
Iron Sulfide
Expansion
Deleterious
Oxidation
Secondary Mineral Formation
Reactive Aggregates
Problematic Aggregates
Pyrrhotite
Pyrite

File:

Download Iron_Sulfide_Minerals_in_Concrete_Aggregates.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Program Head/Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member

Author:

Alqenaee, Amnah

Title:

Development Of A Straw-Reinforced Clay-Based Mixture For 3D Printing Construction Of Affordable Home

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

3D Printing
Concrete 3D Pringting
3DP
3DPC
Cob
Environmentally Friendly
Construction
Cob Construction
Earthen Construction
Earth-Based Material

File:

Download Amnah_Alqenaee_Final_Thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nikbakht, Hamed

Title:

HAMILTONIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SCHEMES FOR RARE EVENT ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hamiltonian MCMC
Quasi-Newton
Rare Event Probability
Reliability Estimation
High-dimensional Spaces
Inverse Importance Sampling

File:

Download HN-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oreggioni Weiberlen, Fiorella

Title:

Predicting commodity and virtual water flows using machine learning: Analysis of modeling experiments and time series predictions with Random Forest

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

complex network
spatial network
gravity model
random forest
trade
water footprint
complex networks
spatial networks
machine learninig

File:

Download Thesis_FiorellaOreggioni_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caitlin A Grady, Committee Member
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Changizi, Navid

Title:

Topology optimization of frame structures based on hysteretic finite element modeling

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Topology optimization
Frame structures
Material nonlinearity
Hysteretic beam finite element
Quasi-static loading
Time-varying excitation
Model condensation

File:

Download NC_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair