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Author:

Kinney, Scott Allen

Title:

Assessment of Load Sharing Members in an Anti-ram Bollard System Subjected to Vehicle Impacts

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Modeling
Anti-ram
Bollard
Load Sharing
Steel Member Design
Parametric Study
Crash Testing

File:

Download Kinney_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dan Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Newpher, Brandon James

Title:

Field Evaluation of Dynamic Load Factors for Historic Through-truss Bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Load Factor
Impact Factor
Dynamic Load Allowance
Through-Truss Bridges
Lenticular Arch
Pratt Truss

File:

Download Newpher_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Boothby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jones, Kendra Diana

Title:

Blast Resistance of Polyurea-coated Granite Cladding Walls

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

blast
explosive
granite cladding
polyurea
polymer
high-strain rate
fragmentation

File:

Download Thesis_Jones_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Daniel Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoltan Ivan Rado, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Urban, Rachel Lorah

Title:

Pandora's Box: Can We Distinguish Groundwater transport Hypotheses Given Observational uncertainties?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

groundwater
transport
observational uncertainty

File:

Download Urban_Thesis_03.30_comp.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Noveral, Christian James

Title:

Investigation of a hollow structural section connection and transfer member for load sharing in anti-ram vehicle barriers

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

anti-ram
barrier
finite element analysis
HSS
hollow structural section
connection
LS-DYNA

File:

Download Noveral_Thesis_Final_full.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Daniel G Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Venkittaraman, Ashok

Title:

Seismic Resilience of Highway Bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete bridges
fragility analysis
resilience
sensitivity study
cost analysis

File:

Download Thesis_Final_-_Ashok_Venkittaraman.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Swagata Banerjee Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Pragati

Title:

Time-dependent damage based tension stiffening in reinforced concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Cracking
Tension Stiffening
Time-dependent deformation
Creep
Shrinkage
Reinforced Concrete.

File:

Download Thesis_Pragati_Singh.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Deng, Pu

Title:

A model for simulating the compression stiffness degradation in circular elastomeric bearings due to fatigue

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

elastomeric bearing
fatigue
compression stiffness
simulation

File:

Download thesis_of_Deng.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thomas, Evan Michael

Title:

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Stable Isotope Compositions at the Susquehanna-shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stable isotopes
deuterium
oxygen-18
hydrology

File:

Download Thomas_MS_Thesis_2.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kramer, Cory Adam

Title:

An Experimental Investigation on Performance of a Model Geothermal Pile in Sand

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

geothermal
pile
sand
experimental
laboratory
energy
soil

File:

Download Thesis_-_Final_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor