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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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yin, Hao

Title:

INTEGRATING INSTRUMENTATION DATA IN PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE PREDICTION OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

MEPDG
Monte Carlo simulation
flexible pavement
instrumentation
performance prediction
probabilistic
finite element analysis
viscoelastic
variability analysis

File:

Download HaoYin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Member
Ghassan Chehab, Committee Member
Charles Edward Antle, Committee Member

Author:

Ban, Hoki

Title:

Performance of Buried Concrete Pipe Under Different Environmental Conditions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

cracking behavior
concrete pipe
soil pressure

File:

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Committee Members:

Mian C Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Sunil K Sinha, 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:

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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:

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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:

van Werkhoven, Kathryn Lynn

Title:

EVALUATING MODEL BEHAVIOR FOR HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING IN GAUGED AND UNGAUGED WATERSHEDS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

watershed modeling
sensitivity analysis
optimization
ungauged basins
climate change impacts
distributed models

File:

Download KvanWerkhoven_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Michael Mann, Committee Member

Author:

Hoover, Shad Ellsworth

Title:

The Expansive Effects of Concentrated Pyritic Zones in Shales of the Marcellus Formation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

sulfates
gypsum
expansion
Marcellus
shale
pyrite
oxidation
precipitation

File:

Download Shad_Hoover_Dissertation_-_Civil_Engineering.pdf

Committee Members:

Mian C Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
David Lehmann, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Shuangcai

Title:

INTEGRATED MODELING OF MULTI-SCALE HYDRODYNAMICS, SEDIMENT AND POLLUTANT TRANSPORT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

flood modeling
hydrological modeling
numerical modeling
sediment transport
pollutant transport
PIHM

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_LI.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Committee Member

Author:

Sathyanarayanan, Sudhakar

Title:

SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING OF PAVEMENT MARKING VISIBILITY DEGRADATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

pavement markings
visibility
service life
duration models

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Venky Shanakar PhD. P.E., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Woo Seok

Title:

LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN FOR INTEGRAL ABUTMENT BRIDGES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Load and Resistance Factor
Integral Abutment
Bridges
Finite Element
Reliability
Monte Carlo Simulation

File:

Download Dissertation_WooSeok_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A Laman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey A Laman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Member
Mian C Wang, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member