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Author:

Unal, Mehmet

Title:

Restoration decision-making of disrupted infrastructure networks: A design by shopping and data visualization approach

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Disaster resilience
Infrastructure networks
Restoration
Design by shopping
Many-objective optimization
Data visualization

File:

Download Mehmet_Unal_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Andriotis, Charalampos

Title:

Data driven decision making under uncertainty for intelligent life-cycle control of the built environment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Structural Fragility
Hidden Markov Models
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Stochastic Mechanics
Life-cycle systems management

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_CPAndriotis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Outside Member

Author:

Amir, Mariyam

Title:

A degradation-plasticity finite element and system identification scheme for efficient model-based and data-informed structural condition assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hysteretic finite element model
Multiaxial interactions
Distributed plasticity
Interpolation functions
Coupled degradation-plasticity
Geometric nonlinearity
ODEs/DAEs
State-space formulation
Hidden Markov model
Scaled Spherical Simplex Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Sigma points
Sequential probabilistic inference
Dual state-parameter estimation
Online nonlinear filtering
Bayesian inference
Large scale system identification
Model-data fusion

File:

Download MariyamAmir-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nikbakht, Hamed

Title:

HAMILTONIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SCHEMES FOR RARE EVENT ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hamiltonian MCMC
Quasi-Newton
Rare Event Probability
Reliability Estimation
High-dimensional Spaces
Inverse Importance Sampling

File:

Download HN-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Changizi, Navid

Title:

Topology optimization of frame structures based on hysteretic finite element modeling

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Topology optimization
Frame structures
Material nonlinearity
Hysteretic beam finite element
Quasi-static loading
Time-varying excitation
Model condensation

File:

Download NC_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair