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Author:: Adams, Benjamin T.
Title:: Experimental and Analytical Investigations of the Relative and Interactive Effects of Physicochemical Fluid Characteristics on the Incipient Motion of Granular Particles Under Laminar Flow Conditions
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: soil erosion
incipient motion
pH
ionic strength
viscosity
laminar
granular
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation__Benjamin_T._Adams__-_Post_Defense.pdf
Committee Members:: Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Mahjabin, Tasnuva
Title:: Integrating Embedded Resources and Network Analysis to Understand Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the US
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Food-Energy-Water nexus
Virtual water
Water footprint
Nitrogen footprint
Embedded resources
Network analysis
Scaling
Urban indicator
Sustainability
File:: Download Tasnuva_Mahjabin_2020.pdf
Committee Members:: Caitlin A Grady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caitlin A Grady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Moraes Neves, Juliana Moraes
Title:: Advancing the Processing of Cement-Based Materials in Extraterrestrial Environments
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Cement hydration
Microgravity
Microstructure
Space research
Phase Distribution
File:: Download JNeves_Apr19_PhD_FINAL2.pdf
Committee Members:: Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Special Member
Richard N. Grugel, Special Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Salam, Sajjad
Title:: Cyclic Behavior of Fine Coal Refuse and Seismic Stability of Coal Tailings Dams
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: cyclic behavior
coal tailings
liquefaction
physical modeling
PM4Silt
seismic stability
stochastic modeling
aging
strain history
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Sajjad_Salam.pdf
Committee Members:: Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Jia, Hang
Title:: ALTERNATE APPROACHES FOR EXAMINING THE NEED FOR UPDATING SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: RENB
annual indicator in SPF estimate
predictive ability
calibration factor approach
updating SPFs
File:: Download Hang_Jia_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rajesh Paleti, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Lin, Kuan Chung
Title:: A nodally integrated thermo-mechanical meshfree formulation with application to fused deposition modeling
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Meshfree methods
Fused deposition modeling
Nodal integration
Coupled thermal mechanical formulation
Naturally stablized nodal integration
Variationally consistent integration
File:: Download Kuan-Chung_Lin_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Charles Hillman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Charles Hillman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Pinlei Chen, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Outside Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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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

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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

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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

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