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Author:

Liu, Shushu

Title:

SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock

File:

Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ahmadipur, Amir

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT FORCE FROM A DRY GRANULAR SLIDING MASS ON A RIGID OBSTRUCTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Basal friction
Compression wave
Dynamic force
Flume test
Granular flow
Impact
Deposit morphology
Flow dynamics
Granular avalanches
Inclined surface
Static force
Flow velocity

File:

Download Amir_Ahmadipur_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Gawelko, Lexi Nicole

Title:

Can Meta-Soil Attenuate Seismic Waves?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

metamaterial
earthquake
civil engineering
perioidic foundation
resonator

File:

Download Gawelko_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yen Chieh

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF MINE TAILINGS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

mine tailings
coal slurry
mineral properties
coefficient of consolidation

File:

Download YenChiehWang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Jiang

Title:

THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES AND ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

acoustic nonlinearity
microstructural features
contact acoustic nonlinearity
dynamic acousto-elastic testing
single impact-based nonlinear resonant acoustic spectroscopy

File:

Download Jiang_Jin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Outside Member
Joseph Rose, Outside Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Xuan

Title:

USE OF SEMI-CIRCULAR BEND TEST TO CHARACTERIZE FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT CONCRETE WITH VIRGIN AND RECYCLED MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Asphalt
Cracking
Fracture
Semi-Circular Bend
Recycled Materials
Asphalt Concrete
Performance Test
Balanced Mix Design

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Xuan_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Member

Author:

Zahedi, Mona

Title:

Evaluating the Use of Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash as Concrete Pozzolan

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fluidized Bed Combustion
Fly ash
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
ASTM C618
Mechanical properties
Durability
Concrete
Hydration mechanism
Beneficiation

File:

Download PhD_dissertation-Mona_Zahedi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zilong

Title:

DYNAMICS OF COUPLED FLOW-OBJECT-SEDIMENT SYSTEMS WITH SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH) SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fluid-object-sediment interaction
multi-phase
SPH
visco-elastoplastic model

File:

Download ZilongLi-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee 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