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Author:

Mohammadpour, Paniz

Title:

Maximizing Human-Environmental Security by Analyzing the Food, Energy and Water Interconnections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Food security
Water security
Energy security
Sustainable development goals
food production chain
food trade
nitrogen footprint
nitrogen budget
nitrogen loss
substance flow analysis
Nitrogen loss
Scenario analysis
Nitrogen management

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
David Abler, Outside Field Member
Caitlin Grady, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Torquato, Thomas

Title:

Development of the Concept of High-Rise Hybrid Modular Construction for Vertical Mobile Home Parks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Vertical Mobile Home Park
Mobile Home Units
Lift Process
Model
Analyzing
Prescribed Load Conditions
Unit Lift Process
Improve Building Plot

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benay Gürsoy Toykoç, Committee Member
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Pei, Te

Title:

Integrating Geotechnical Domain Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Slope Stability Predictions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slope Stability
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
Machine Learning
Domain Knowledge
Physics-based model
Monotonicity

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

Towards Extraterrestrial Construction: Lunar Concrete for In-Situ Infrastructure on the Moon

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geopolymer Lunar Concrete
Moon
Concrete
Durability
Lunar Simulant
Gravity

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Major Field Member
Sven Bilén, Outside Unit & Field Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Special Member
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ororbia, Maximilian Edward

Title:

Discrete structural optimization as a sequential decision process solved using deep reinforcement learning

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Discrete structural optimization
Sequential decision process
Markov decision process
Deep reinforcement learning

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Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Outside Unit Member
Gordon Warn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Outside Field Member

Author:

Howarth, Marina

Title:

A Systematic Review of Nature-Based Solutions for Riverine Flood Mitigation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)
flood mitigation
co-benefits
environmental justice
trandisciplinary research
co-design
green infrastructure
natural flood management
ecohydrology
engineering nature
water resources

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

Author:

Jurado Guzman, Amanda Cristina

Title:

Data-Driven Detection and Characterization of Shocks in the Global Trade Network

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Supply chain
Resilience
Global trade
Trade shocks

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Christine Kirchhoff, Committee Member

Author:

Feng, Dapeng

Title:

Differentiable Hydrologic Models: A Systematic Integration of Deep Learning and Physical Models for Large Scale Hydrologic Simulation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-constrained deep learning
Differentiable hydrologic models
Prediction in ungauged regions
Data integration
Streamflow prediction
Large scale hydrologic modeling

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Chaopeng Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jenni Evans, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Delgado, Luis

Title:

AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL VULNERABILITY, EXPOSURE, AND FREIGHT TRANSPORT NETWORK DISRUPTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

social vulnerability
food
energy
and water security
food security
disruption exposure
freight transportation network
vulnerable communities
emergency response planning
inequality
network vulnerability analysis

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Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member

Author:

Lyritsakis, Charilaos

Title:

A Global Parametric Nonlinear Programming Framework for a Geometrically Exact Inelastic Beam Finite Element

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

geometrically-exact beam
nonlinear programming
homotopy continuation
parametric optimization
finite element analysis
numerical continuation
elastoplasticity

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Committee Members:

Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Field Member
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member