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Author:

Bazer, Abdulsamed

Title:

Shrinkage Cracking Potential & Petrographic Analysis of Concrete with MgO Expansive Admixture

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

shrinkage
restrained ring test
MgO expansive admixture
MgO concrete
petrography
thin sections
concrete
cementitious admixtures
shrinkage cracking
cracking potential
microstructure of concrete
fluorescence microscopy
polarized light microscopy
scanning electrom microscopy
SEM
EDS
concrete petrography

File:

Download SAMET_THESIS_FULL_reviewed_edited_on_20_december.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Lingyu

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF SHOULDER AND CENTERLINE RUMBLE STRIPS: A BAYESIAN PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Propensity score matching
crash modification factor
shoulder and centerline rumble strips
safety effect estimates
causal inference
Bayesian method
covariate balancing

File:

Download Lingyu_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Kari Lock Morgan, Outside Member

Author:

Kersavage, Kristin

Title:

Relationship between Speed Metrics and Crash Frequency and Severity: Implications for Roadway Design

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

speed
crash risk
crash frequency and severity
negative binomial
binary logistic regression

File:

Download Kristin_Kersavage_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Zhengyao

Title:

Multi-resolution Analysis of Disruptions in Different Urban Network Configurations under Varying Information Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

traffic network resilience
left turn treatments
one-way streets
disruption information provision
urban traffic network

File:

Download Dissertation_Yu.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash V. Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Tao Yao, 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:

Wu, Kan

Title:

BUS TRANSIT PRIORITY: MODELING AND EVALUATING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bus transit priority
transit signal priority
traffic flow theory
kinematic wave theory
queuing theory

File:

Download Kan_950090433_PhD_dissertation_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T. Pietrucha, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Xinrui

Title:

APPLICATION OF INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY ON THE IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF BUILDING ENVELOPE THERMAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Building Envelope; Infrared Thermography; Building Science; R-value

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Xinrui_Lu.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Outside Member
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Yuncheng

Title:

3D numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around in-stream structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

immersed boundary method
OpenFOAM
CFD
scour modeling
sediment transport
in-stream structure
large woody debris

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Outside Member

Author:

Szeles, Tiffany

Title:

Damage mitigation and prediction of alkali-silica reaction in concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Alkali-silica reaction
Mitigation
Service life
Aluminum
Design of experiment

File:

Download Dissertation_TiffanySzeles_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Guang

Title:

MESHFREE VISCOELASTIC MODELING: TOWARD NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PRINTING CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Reproducing Kernel Particle Method
viscoelastic modeling
Meshfree methods
3D printing

File:

Download PSUThesis_GuangChen.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Charles Hillman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor