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Author:

Zeng, Kun

Title:

Sensing Mechanism and Real-time Computing for Reference-free Railroad Bridge Displacement Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Railroad Bridge
Displacement Monitoring
Sensing Mechanism
Reference-free
Smart Computing
Data Fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Jungwoo Ryoo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheikh, Bahman

Title:

The Behavior of a Granular Flow from Collapsing, to Spreading and Sliding Down a Frictional Incline

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
Soil-structure interaction
frictional Boundary condition
Granular material
Granular flow
Impact force
Landslide
Landslide runout
High performance computing
Statistics
SPH
LBM
Drag force

File:

Download Dissertation_BahmanSheikh_AfterDefense4.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Major Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pei, Te

Title:

Integrating Geotechnical Domain Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Slope Stability Predictions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slope Stability
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
Machine Learning
Domain Knowledge
Physics-based model
Monotonicity

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lyritsakis, Charilaos

Title:

A Global Parametric Nonlinear Programming Framework for a Geometrically Exact Inelastic Beam Finite Element

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

geometrically-exact beam
nonlinear programming
homotopy continuation
parametric optimization
finite element analysis
numerical continuation
elastoplasticity

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Committee Members:

Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Field Member
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Song, Yalan

Title:

Scour around Complex Structures and Objects

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Scour
sand slide
munitions
bridge piers
numerical simulations
Complex structures
Hydrodynamics

File:

Download Yalan_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Johnson, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wang, Chu

Title:

Modeling Heat Transfer in Saturated Soil

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat transfer
Thermal conductivity
Thermal dispersion
Effective porosity
Thermal nonequilibrium
Numerical modeling
Layered soil
Local thermal equilibrium

File:

Download Final_Phd_Dissertation_Chu_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Minor Field Member

Author:

Prabhu, Sudheer Sudhakaran

Title:

Mechanical behavior of sand subjected to impact loading

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Impact Loading
Sand
DEM
Particle Crushing
Equation of State
SHPB

File:

Download Dissertation_Sudheer_S_Prabhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Outside Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Unit Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Yanan

Title:

Application of Convergence-Confinement Method in the Design and Construction of Large-Diameter Tunnels in Soft Ground

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Convergence-Confinement Method

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Committee Members:

Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Major Field Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Shuai

Title:

A New Perspective of Understanding Compaction of Particulate Asphalt Mixtures: Mechanism and Automated Assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Asphalt mixture
Particle rotation
Compaction mechanism
Artificial Intelligence
Sensing technology
Density prediction

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_ShuaiYu.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Mansour Solaimanian, Major Field Member
Shihui Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member