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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:

Liew, Min

Title:

FIELD AND LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATIONS OF IN SITU COAL SLURRY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Tailings
Coal Slurry
Seismic Survey
Seismic Monitoring
Wave Velocity
Elastic Modulus
Peak Particle Velocity
Liquefaction Potential
Geotechnical Properties
Liquefaction Susceptibility
Mineralogical Characterization

File:

Download MinLiew_MasterThesis_7.9.2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee 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:

Beltre, Maria L

Title:

Hurricane-Induced Coastal Erosion

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hurricane-induced soil erosion
coastal soil erosion
quantification of soil erosion
remediation againsts coastal soil erosion
beach nourishment

File:

Download Beltre_MS_Thesis_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis 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

Author:

Bazer, Abdulsamed

Title:

Shrinkage Cracking Potential & Petrographic Analysis of Concrete with MgO Expansive Admixture

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

shrinkage
restrained ring test
MgO expansive admixture
MgO concrete
petrography
thin sections
concrete
cementitious admixtures
shrinkage cracking
cracking potential
microstructure of concrete
fluorescence microscopy
polarized light microscopy
scanning electrom microscopy
SEM
EDS
concrete petrography

File:

Download SAMET_THESIS_FULL_reviewed_edited_on_20_december.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member