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Author:

Taglieri, David

Title:

Urban Traffic Network Operations: Roundabouts vs. Signalized Intersections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

traffic
traffic control
roundabout
roundabouts
macroscopic fundamental diagram
network exit function
transportation
engineering
MFD
NEF

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member

Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Committee Members:

Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eck, Andrew

Title:

Evaluating Dust Suppressant Efficacy and Roadbed Stability of Dirt and Gravel Roads

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

dirt and gravel roads
dust suppression
OGPW
oil and gas produced water
dust
oil and gas wastewater
road spreading
dust palliative
road dust

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zeng, Yi Xuan

Title:

hydraulics and performance evaluations of fish passages based on computational fluid dynamics and individual-based methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fish passage design
fish behavior
individual-based model (IBM)
biased random walk model.
rock weirs
realistic rock weir modeling
numerical modeling

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margaret Byron, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Johnson, Major Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chaemchuen, Piyaphat

Title:

Suspended Sediment Concentration prediction using Deep Learning across the Contiguous United States

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Suspended Sediment Concentration prediction
Deep Learning
Long Short-Term memory model
The Contiguous United States
Large-scale modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Chaopeng Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Delgado, Luis

Title:

AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL VULNERABILITY, EXPOSURE, AND FREIGHT TRANSPORT NETWORK DISRUPTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

social vulnerability
food
energy
and water security
food security
disruption exposure
freight transportation network
vulnerable communities
emergency response planning
inequality
network vulnerability analysis

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Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Chih Chun

Title:

Evaluation of the erodibility of sand infill in synthetic turf using flume testing

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

erosion control
erosion control blanket
RECP
rolled erosion control product
scour
sediment
soil loss

File:

Download ChihChunTang_MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Roberto Fernández, Committee Member

Author:

Xiong, Zecheng

Title:

Quantifying the impact of different right-turn strategies on the efficiency of different urban transportation networks under different scenarios

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Right-Turn-On-Red
Network Exit Function
Pedestrians
Adaptive Signal
Microscopic Simulation

File:

Download Zecheng_Xiong_master_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member

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