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Author:

Akbarpour, Hamed

Title:

FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE: ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fire Following Earthquake
Fire
Multi-hazard
Seismic Design
Earthquake
Analytical Assessment

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Committee Member
Somayeh Asadi, Outside Member
Amr S. Elnashai, Special Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Amir, Mariyam

Title:

A degradation-plasticity finite element and system identification scheme for efficient model-based and data-informed structural condition assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hysteretic finite element model
Multiaxial interactions
Distributed plasticity
Interpolation functions
Coupled degradation-plasticity
Geometric nonlinearity
ODEs/DAEs
State-space formulation
Hidden Markov model
Scaled Spherical Simplex Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Sigma points
Sequential probabilistic inference
Dual state-parameter estimation
Online nonlinear filtering
Bayesian inference
Large scale system identification
Model-data fusion

File:

Download MariyamAmir-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
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:

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