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Author:

Liu, Shi

Title:

Seismic Performance and Sensitivity of Floor Isolation Systems in Steel Plate Shear Wall Structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

earthquake
steel plate shear wall
sensitivity
floor isolation system
performance

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Voltz, Thomas John

Title:

Riparian hydraulic gradient and water table dynamics in two steep headwater streams

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Riparian zone
hyporheic exchange
diurnal fluctuations
hydraulic gradients

File:

Download TomVoltz_MSThesis_110603_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Gooseff & Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael N Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Myers, Tanya L

Title:

Analysis of the International Residential Code 2006 Low Rise Wood Frame Building Bracing Requirements for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

braced walls
shear walls
bracing
wind records
wind speeds
statistics
engineering
structural
residential
low
low rise
low rise buildings
wood construction
houses
housing
Wood frame construction
IRC 2006
2006
International Residential Code
IRC
loads
lateral loads
wind
ASCE 7
gypsum walls
exterior walls
interior walls
structural panels
analytical model
rigid beam model
rigid plate model
extreme wind
wind engineering

File:

Download TanyaMyersMSThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bohumil Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhatnagar, Unmukt Rajeev

Title:

Seismic Performance of Skewed Bridges under Orthogonal Ground Motion Components

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Orthogonal effects
Fragility Curves
Directionality Effects
Seismic Analysis
Skewed Bridge

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_-_Unmukt_Bhatnagar.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Swagata Banerjee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karwa, Vishesh

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF PAVEMENT MARKING RETROREFLECTIVITY:AN APPLICATION OF CAUSAL BAYESIAN NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

safety
Pavement marking retroreflecitivyt
Causal Inference
Bayeisan Networks

File:

Download Vishesh_Karwa.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Vishal Kumar

Title:

STRAIN-RESPONSE CHARACTERIZATION FOR UNBONDED CONCRETE OVERLAYS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY AIRCRAFT GEAR WITH MULTIPLE AXLES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Unbonded Concrete Overlay
Strain Gage
Strain Response Components

File:

Download FINAL_Thesis_Vishal_Singh_26_April.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Wenfang

Title:

IMPLEMENTING THE SHALE HILLS WATERSHED MODEL IN APPLICATION OF PIHM

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
Shale Hills
PIHM

File:

Download thesis_new.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Yun

Title:

Tension stiffening model for reinforced concrete based on bond stress slip relation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

cracking
Reinforced concrete
tension stiffening
bond

File:

Download Thesis_yun_lin.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bai, Yaoling

Title:

A TOP-DOWN FRAMEWORK FOR WATERSHED MODEL EVALUATION AND SELECTION UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

model selection
top-down approach
hydrologic model
uncertainty

File:

Download Bai_thesis_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Gabay, Zachary M

Title:

Mid-rise Building Progressive Collapse Finite Element Modeling with Consideration of Occupant Egress

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Progressive Collapse
Steel Moment Frames
Occupant Egress
Abaqus
Finite Element Analysis
Nonlinear Static
Riks

File:

Download Thesis_ZMG.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Daniel G Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor