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Author:

Ward, Adam Scott

Title:

CHARACTERIZING SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN COUPLED STREAM-HYPORHEIC SYSTEMS USING ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogeology
geophysics
hydrogeophysics
hyporheic
water quality

File:

Download 2011-07-05_ward_disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael N Gooseff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael N Gooseff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamini Singha, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
James Michael Hamlett, Committee Member

Author:

Younkin, Brian Douglas

Title:

PREDICTION OF SCOUR FORMATION DUE TO A TURBULENT WALL JET ALONG A NON-COHESIVE SEDIMENT BED

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

two-dimensional turbulent wall jets
sediment transport
prediction model
early stages of scour
Particle Image Velocimetry

File:

Download Younkin_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David N Hill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kendra Sharp, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Michael N Gooseff, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Francis

Title:

ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SAFETY EFFECTIVENESS ON RURAL, TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS: CASE-CONTROL AND COHORT METHODS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Highway Safety
Transportation
Geometric Design
Case-Control Method
Cohort Method
Safety Effectiveness
Crash Modification Factor

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Frank_Gross.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Volz, Jeffery

Title:

The Viability of Partially Post-Tensioned Concrete Members in an Aggressive Environment, including Cyclic Loading

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

post-tensioned
prestressed
durability
corrosion
fatigue
concrete
chloride exposure
corrosion-fatigue
prestressing strand

File:

Download Volz_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea J Schokker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey A Laman, Committee Member
Daniel G Linzell, Committee Member
Howard W Pickering, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Newlin, Jessica Thomas

Title:

Sediment Aggradation at Bridge Crossings and an Adaptive Approach to Stream Channel Maintenance and Bridge Design

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

adaptive management
channel modification
physical modeling
instream structures
sediment aggradation
bridge waterways

File:

Download FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Carl Miller, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Member

Author:

Aguero Valverde, Jonathan

Title:

Network Analysis of Road Crash Frequency using Spatial Models

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bayesian hierarchical models
spatial correlation
highway safety
Poisson log-Normal conditional autoregressive

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Kollat, Joshua B

Title:

Many-Objective Groundwater Monitoring Network Design Using Bias-Aware Ensemble Kalman Filtering, Evolutionary Optimization, and Visual Analytics

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

monitoring network design; multiobjective optimiza

File:

Download KollatDissertationSpring2010_Print.pdf

Committee Members:

John Patrick Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Seo, Junwon

Title:

SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF A FAMILY OF HORIZONTALLY CURVED STEEL BRIDGES USING RESPONSE SURFACE METAMODELS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Bridge
Metamodels
Fragility Curves
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment

File:

Download Dissertation_Seo_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Linzell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel G Linzell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey A Laman, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Linda Morley Hanagan, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Je Il

Title:

Role of Early-Age Concrete Properties and Construction Loading on Slab Serviceability

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

slab
construction load
early-age
finite element analysis
concrete
experiment

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea J Schokker, Committee Member
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Amini, Maral M

Title:

Reliability Assessment of Roof Sheathing Performance for Typical North American Roofs Subjected to Wind Pressure

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Roofs subjected to wind pressure
Stochastic modeling of low-rise roofs
Roof sheathing Failure

File:

Download Maral-Amini-Dissertation.pdfDownload June_01_2009_0804_am__no_caps.zipDownload Amini_errata_file_pressuretap-numbering.xls

Committee Members:

Dr Scanlon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bohumil Kasal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel G Linzell, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member