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Author:

Lombardi, Danielle Maria

Title:

Improving Unbound Aggregate Roads through a Comparison of the Performance of Materials

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Unbound Aggregate Roads
Full Depth Reclamation
Driving Surface Aggregate

File:

Download LombardiThesis-Nov_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Earl Scheetz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Eveland, Jeffery Wayne

Title:

Snow Dynamics in a Polar Desert, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

snow hydrology
snow ecology
remote sensing
stable isotopes

File:

Download Eveland_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael N Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Murphy, Shane David

Title:

Skewed Steel Bridge Cross-frame Response to Truck Loading

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Steel Bridge
Skew
Cross-frame
Parapet

File:

Download Murphy_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel G Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sirandas, Sai Ram

Title:

A RANDOM PARAMTERS FRAMEWORK FOR FREEWAY LANE USE MODELING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Lane Changing
VISSIM
Micro-simulation
Random Parameters

File:

Download Sirandas_MSCE.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karschner, Kyle Allan

Title:

Effects of Creep and Shrinkage on Time-dependent Strain and Curvature of R/C Members

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

creep
shrinkage
time-dependent
long-time multiplier
strain
curvature
deformation
deflection

File:

Download Karschner_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Herman, Jonathan D

Title:

Time-varying sensitivity analysis reveals impacts of watershed model choice on the inference of dominant processes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

rainfall-runoff modeling
sensitivity analysis
hydrology

File:

Download Herman_Jonathan_CE_MS_Thesis_SP2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shin, Seunghwan

Title:

Selection Bias and Heterogeneity in Severity Models - Some Insights from an Interstate Analysis

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

safety
severity distribution
selection bias

File:

Download 12_SeunghwanShin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wright, Jared Robert

Title:

Examining Concrete Properties Containing Recycled Glass Cullet as a 100% Fine Aggregate Replacement

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Glass
concrete
glasscrete
compressive strength

File:

Download MS_Thesis_June_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Braun, Gregory David

Title:

Characterization of Pennsylvania Coal Combustion Products for Beneficial Use in Mine Land Reclamation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

CCPs
Coal Ash
Ettringite
Database

File:

Download Thesis_CCPs_Greg_Braun.pdf

Committee Members:

Angelica M Palomino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Reiter, Joseph Brian

Title:

Viability of embedded ultrasonic sensors for structural health monitoring of concrete cracking

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Ultrasonic
Structural Health Monitoring
Health Monitoring
Embedded Sensors
Piezoelectric

File:

Download Joseph_Reiter_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Joseph Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cohen, Laura Claire

Title:

Code Deflections Provisions for Two-way Slabs Deflections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

two-way slabs
deflections

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Akhavan, Alireza

Title:

Characterizing Saturated Mass Transport In Fractured Cementitious Materials

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Durability
Crack
Water Permeability
Ion Diffusion
Image Analysis
Electrical Conductivity

File:

Download Dissertation_Alireza.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Earl Watson, Committee Member
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member

Author:

Vu, Bach Xuan

Title:

Seismic performance of base isolated buildings and strategies to mitigate vertical acceleration demands

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

seismic
isolated
vertical
acceleration
mitigate
fragility
column isolators
elastomeric bearings

File:

Download Bach_Vu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bakey, Christopher Edward

Title:

Analysis of thermal gradients in hyporheic zones of arctic streams to determine flow dynamics

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hyporheic Zone
Arctic Streams

File:

Download Raw-Temperature-Data-1.xlsxDownload Raw-Temperature-Data-2.xlsxDownload Bakey-MS-Thesis-26JULY12-1440.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael N Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Morris, Cody M

Title:

Operating speed models for passenger cars and trucks on horizontal curves with steep grades

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

speed
passenger cars
trucks
multilane highway
mathematical models
regression analysis

File:

Download Morris_Thesis_Full.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bernzott, Emily Dorothy

Title:

Modeling nitrate concentrations in an Antarctic glacial meltwater stream under fluctuating hydrologic conditions and nitrate inputs

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hyporheic zone
primary productivity
stream
nitrate
nutrients
hydrology

File:

Download EBernzott_MS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gerecht, Katelyn Elizabeth

Title:

anomalous Stream Temperature Response to Storms in a Forested Headwater Stream in Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stream temperature
storm response
headwater
runoff

File:

Download Gerecht_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Artun, Kivanc

Title:

Durability of Concrete Beams Reinforced with Fiber Reinforced Polymers

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

durability
FRP
debonding
DIC

File:

Download Artun.Thesis.28.09.2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Associate Professor Of Civil Engineering Dr Maria Lopez De Murpy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sharafbayani, Mohammadreza

Title:

Evaluation of bracing systems in horizontally curved steel I-girder bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Plate Girder Bridge
Curved Bridge
Bracing System
Constructability
Service
Finite Element Method

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation_Mohammad.pdfDownload PhD-Dissertation_Mohammad_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel G Linzell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey A Laman, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Wei

Title:

Numerical Studies of Seismically Induced Slope Deformation Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method; Large Deformation; Dynam

File:

Download Dissertation_WC_final.pdfDownload Copyright_Permission.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel G Linzell, Committee Member
Prasenjit Basu, Committee Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member