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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

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

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

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

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

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:

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:

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