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Author:: Kermani, Elnaz
Title:: SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Discrete Element Method
Dynamic Collapse
Energy Dissipation
Granular Flow
Quasi-Static Collapse
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
File:: Download Elnaz_Kermani.pdf
Committee Members:: Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member

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Author:: Kermani, Behnoud
Title:: Experimental and Numerical Study of Subgrade Soil Migration into Pavement Subbase and Mitigation Using Geotextile
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Cyclic loading; Faulting; Flexible pavement; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; MMLS3; Particle transport; Pore water pressure; Pumping; Rigid pavement; Rutting; Subgrade fines migration; Traffic loading
File:: Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Behnoud_Kermani__bzk5102_.pdf
Committee Members:: Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Wang, Jintai
Title:: SEISMIC PERFORMANCES OF A LIQUEFIABLE SAND DEPOSIT USING 1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING CONSIDERING AGING AND SHAKING HISTORY EFFECTS AND THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SAND LIQUEFACTION
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: 1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING
SHAKING HISTORY EFFECT
AGING EFFECT
CPTu TESTING
NUMERICAL SIMULATION
PM4Sand
LIQUEFACTION
File:: Download Final_Dissertation_Jintai_Wang_VITA.pdf
Committee Members:: Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Liu, Shushu
Title:: SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock
File:: Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf
Committee Members:: Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Ahmadipur, Amir
Title:: EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT FORCE FROM A DRY GRANULAR SLIDING MASS ON A RIGID OBSTRUCTION
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Basal friction
Compression wave
Dynamic force
Flume test
Granular flow
Impact
Deposit morphology
Flow dynamics
Granular avalanches
Inclined surface
Static force
Flow velocity
File:: Download Amir_Ahmadipur_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Jin, Jiang
Title:: THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES AND ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: acoustic nonlinearity
microstructural features
contact acoustic nonlinearity
dynamic acousto-elastic testing
single impact-based nonlinear resonant acoustic spectroscopy
File:: Download Jiang_Jin_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Parisa Shokouhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Outside Member
Joseph Rose, Outside Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

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Author:: Chen, Xuan
Title:: USE OF SEMI-CIRCULAR BEND TEST TO CHARACTERIZE FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT CONCRETE WITH VIRGIN AND RECYCLED MATERIALS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Asphalt
Cracking
Fracture
Semi-Circular Bend
Recycled Materials
Asphalt Concrete
Performance Test
Balanced Mix Design
File:: Download Dissertation_-_Xuan_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Member

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Author:: Zahedi, Mona
Title:: Evaluating the Use of Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash as Concrete Pozzolan
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Fluidized Bed Combustion
Fly ash
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
ASTM C618
Mechanical properties
Durability
Concrete
Hydration mechanism
Beneficiation
File:: Download PhD_dissertation-Mona_Zahedi.pdf
Committee Members:: Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Salam, Sajjad
Title:: Cyclic Behavior of Fine Coal Refuse and Seismic Stability of Coal Tailings Dams
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: cyclic behavior
coal tailings
liquefaction
physical modeling
PM4Silt
seismic stability
stochastic modeling
aging
strain history
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Sajjad_Salam.pdf
Committee Members:: Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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