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Author:

Kermani, Elnaz

Title:

SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Discrete Element Method
Dynamic Collapse
Energy Dissipation
Granular Flow
Quasi-Static Collapse
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

File:

Download Elnaz_Kermani.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member

Author:

Kermani, Behnoud

Title:

Experimental and Numerical Study of Subgrade Soil Migration into Pavement Subbase and Mitigation Using Geotextile

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Cyclic loading; Faulting; Flexible pavement; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; MMLS3; Particle transport; Pore water pressure; Pumping; Rigid pavement; Rutting; Subgrade fines migration; Traffic loading

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Behnoud_Kermani__bzk5102_.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Khosrojerdi, Mahsa

Title:

SERVICE LIMIT STATE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERED FILLS FOR BRIDGE SUPPORT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Finite difference simulation
Geosynthetics
GRS abutment
Lateral deformation
Prediction equation
Regression analysis
Sensitivity analysis
Settlement
RSF

File:

Download Dissertation-Mahsa_Khosrojerdi__2018_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Dr. Patrick J. Fox, Committee Member
Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Outside Member

Author:

Chhabra, Jaskanwal Preet

Title:

DESIGN AS A MARKOV DECISION PROCESS: A METHOD FOR BROAD AND EFFICIENT TRADESPACE EXPLORATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Design exploration
Multi-fidelity
Sequential Decision Process
Surrogate modeling
Gaussian process

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon P. Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon P. Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Timothy Simpson, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Yunxiang

Title:

QUANTIFYING FLOW RESISTANCE IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Flow resistance
Computational fluid dynamics
Structure-from-Motion
Subglacial conduit
Mountain streams
Roughness

File:

Download Yunxiang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Li Li, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Kenneth D. Mankoff, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Jintai

Title:

SEISMIC PERFORMANCES OF A LIQUEFIABLE SAND DEPOSIT USING 1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING CONSIDERING AGING AND SHAKING HISTORY EFFECTS AND THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SAND LIQUEFACTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING
SHAKING HISTORY EFFECT
AGING EFFECT
CPTu TESTING
NUMERICAL SIMULATION
PM4Sand
LIQUEFACTION

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Jintai_Wang_VITA.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shushu

Title:

SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock

File:

Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ahmadipur, Amir

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT FORCE FROM A DRY GRANULAR SLIDING MASS ON A RIGID OBSTRUCTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Basal friction
Compression wave
Dynamic force
Flume test
Granular flow
Impact
Deposit morphology
Flow dynamics
Granular avalanches
Inclined surface
Static force
Flow velocity

File:

Download Amir_Ahmadipur_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Ji, Xinye

Title:

Elucidating hydrologic controls of floodplain lake dynamics using a multi-scale process-based model

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrological modeling
Multi-scale approach
floodplain lake dynamics
Generic data structure
Integrated process-based model

File:

Download Xinye_Ji_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Kuai

Title:

Understanding Hydrologic Functions of Water Storage and Soil Moisture and Improving Predictive Capability using Big Data Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
Watershed Functioning
Water Storage
Soil Moisture
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Kuai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member