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Author:

Jia, Hang

Title:

ALTERNATE APPROACHES FOR EXAMINING THE NEED FOR UPDATING SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

RENB
annual indicator in SPF estimate
predictive ability
calibration factor approach
updating SPFs

File:

Download Hang_Jia_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rajesh Paleti, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wright, Jared Robert

Title:

Developing Predictive Tools and Guidance to Increase the Durability of Concrete Infrastructure by Reducing Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) and Early-Age Cracking

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete Durability
Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR)
Fly Ash
PennDOT
Glass Pozzolan

File:

Download Wright__Jared_Final_Dissertation_20210416.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher A Gorski, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Kwadwo Asare Osseo-Asare, Outside 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:

Alqenaee, Amnah

Title:

Development Of A Straw-Reinforced Clay-Based Mixture For 3D Printing Construction Of Affordable Home

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

3D Printing
Concrete 3D Pringting
3DP
3DPC
Cob
Environmentally Friendly
Construction
Cob Construction
Earthen Construction
Earth-Based Material

File:

Download Amnah_Alqenaee_Final_Thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Jose M Pinto Duarte, 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:

Oreggioni Weiberlen, Fiorella

Title:

Predicting commodity and virtual water flows using machine learning: Analysis of modeling experiments and time series predictions with Random Forest

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

complex network
spatial network
gravity model
random forest
trade
water footprint
complex networks
spatial networks
machine learninig

File:

Download Thesis_FiorellaOreggioni_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caitlin A Grady, Committee Member
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee 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