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Author:

Hu, Wen

Title:

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIAN RELATED CRASH FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

crash frequency simulation
spatial dependency
crash severity
crash frequency
Median safety

File:

Download WenHu_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavković, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Xiaochao

Title:

A STUDY OF PERMANENT DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF GEOGRID-REINFORCED FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS USING SMALL SCALE ACCELERATED PAVEMENT TESTING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

pavements
geogrid
soft soil subgrade
accelerated testing
instrumentation
mechanistic empirical design
finite element

File:

Download Dissertation_Tang.pdf

Committee Members:

Angelica Palomino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Xinli

Title:

LOAD TRANSFER MECHANISM OF PIER-SUPPORTED-RAFT FOUNDATION SUBJECTED TO VERTICAL LOAD

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

settlement behavior
load transfer mechanism
foundation design
pile-supported-raft foundation
Pier-supported-raft foundation
raft load ratio
pile load ratio

File:

Download DissertationFinal_WU_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Mian C Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mian C Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Xiangjiang

Title:

Impacts of Watershed Hydrology on Long-Term Landscape Evolution

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

watershed hydrology
landscape evolution

File:

Download Thesis_XHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey D Niemann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Carl Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Member

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:

Fang, Yilin

Title:

Reactive Chemical Transport under Multiphase System

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Conservative Form
Multiphase System
Reactive Chemical Transport
Matrix Decomposition
Reaction Network
Biogeochemical Modeling
Advective Form

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Gour Tsyh Yeh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William D Burgos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member

Author:

Jung, Yeun Jae

Title:

Subsurface Utility Engineering for Highway Projects: A Study of Utility Impact Rating and Benefit-Cost Analysis

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Subsurface Utility Engineering
Utility Impact Rating
Benefit-Cost Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Yeun_Jae_Jung.pdf

Committee Members:

Sunil K Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horace Randolph Thomas Jr., Committee Member
Mian C Wang, Committee Member
Shelton S Alexander, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Yong

Title:

ADVANCING HYDROLOGIC MODEL EVALUATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIOBJECTIVE CALIBRATION, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, AND PARALLEL COMPUTATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic model
model calibration
sensitivity analysis
multiobjective optimization
evolutionary algorithm
parallel computation

File:

Download Dissertation_Yong_Tang_02_02_07_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

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