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Author:

Fraser, Janet Lynne

Title:

Understanding Use of Social Media for Dissemination of Transportation Information

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transportation
social media
communications
Twitter
Facebook
Department of Transportation

File:

Download JFraser_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Kurt David Johnson, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member

Author:

Jaisa-ard, Tanit

Title:

Statistically-based Air Blast Load Factors Based on Imprecised Parameter Statistics for Reinforced Concrete Wall

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Blast
Probabilistic
Load Factor
Imprecise Statistics
Reinforced Concrete
Probability Box

File:

Download Tanit_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy Ann Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Dr Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Renata S Engel, Committee Member

Author:

Yilmaz, Taner

Title:

Risk Assessment of Highway Bridges under Multi-hazard Effect of Flood-induced Scour and Earthquake

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

risk
uncertainty
fragility
multihazard
highway bridges

File:

Download taner_yilmaz_phd_dissertation_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Swagata Banerjee Basu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Prasenjit Basu, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Ghasemi Fare, Omid

Title:

Geothermal Energy Harvesting through Pile Foundations – Analysis-based Prediction and Performance Assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Heat transfer; geothermal energy; heat exchangers; numerical ana

File:

Download Omid_Ghasemi-Fare_-_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Prasenjit Basu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Prasenjit Basu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Dr Swagata Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

O'Hare, Edward Vincent

Title:

Behavior of Concrete-Filled Tube Through-Beam Connections Subjected to Varying Load Rates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Through-beam
steel
concrete
connection
lateral loads
blast
impact
quasi-static
concrete-filled tube
Through-connection

File:

Download OHare_Dissertation_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoltan Ivan Rado, Committee Member
Sean Brennan, Committee Member
Daniel Linzell, Special Member

Author:

Hariharan, Baradhwaj

Title:

functional form and heterogeneity effects on safety performance function estimation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Crash frequency
heterogeneity
count data
negative binomial
multinomial fractional polynomial
over-dispersion

File:

Download Barad-dissertation_final_draft_MAIN_FILE_to_upload_second_updates.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Hong, Jung Yeol

Title:

spatio-temporal models incorporating network topology measures for pedestrian exposure estimation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

pedestrian exposure
network topology
spatial model
vulnerability
crosswalk
safety
network analysis
micro-simulation

File:

Download Jungyeol_Hong-PhD._Dissertation-etd_submission-2015_summer.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Shao, Yen-wen

Title:

Modeling the Interactive Effects of Safety Countermeasures on Pennsylvania Highways

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

countermeasure
interaction
crash estimation
Crash Modification Factor
CMF
multiple treatments
safety effectiveness

File:

Download Yen-Wen_Shaos_dissertation_Modeling_Interactive_Effects_07242015_final_resubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Ashraf, Fahmidah U

Title:

Assessment, prioritization, and communication of risks of failures of a bridge scour countermeasure over a range of flow events

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Risk assessment
Bridge scour countermeasure
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Risk Matrix
Backwater Effect

File:

Download PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy Ann Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member

Author:

Leonard, Lorne Neil

Title:

Hydroterre: Towards an Expert System for Scaling Hydrological Data and Models from Hill-slopes to Major-river Basins

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Data Workflows
Model Workflows
Visual Analytic Workflows
Distributed Hydrological Model
Provenance
Reproducibility
PIHM

File:

Download Leonard_Lorne.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Special Member
Kamesh Madduri, Special Member