1. Experimental Testing and Numerical Modeling of Geomaterials Interacting with Rigid Bodies Under Impact Loading Open Access Author: Reese, Lynsey Title: Experimental Testing and Numerical Modeling of Geomaterials Interacting with Rigid Bodies Under Impact Loading Graduate Program: Civil Engineering Keywords: Anti-Ram BarriersLS-DYNASmoothed Particle HydrodynamicsSoil-Structure InteractionNumerical ModelingExpanded Polystyrene ConcreteFull-Scale Testing File: Download Reese_Dissertation_Final.pdf Committee Members: Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
2. SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS Open Access Author: Kermani, Elnaz Title: SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS Graduate Program: Civil Engineering Keywords: Discrete Element MethodDynamic CollapseEnergy DissipationGranular FlowQuasi-Static CollapseSmoothed Particle Hydrodynamics File: Download Elnaz_Kermani.pdf Committee Members: Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorTong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-ChairMing Xiao, Committee MemberShimin Liu, Committee MemberAndrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member
