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Author:

Yao, Ling

Title:

Shrinkage Mitigation Strategies For Internally Cured Alkali-activated Slag Mortars

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Alkali-activated slag
internal curing
autogenous shrinkage
drying shrinkage
compressive strength

File:

Download Ling_Yao_MS_Thesis_28_v2JUL2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Huang, Shuaiqi

Title:

Heterogeneity in Hybrid Involved Crash Severities: an exploratory Analysis Using The Hierarchical Mixed Logit Model With Hierarchical Hybrid Vehicle Attributes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid Vehicle Crash
Hierarchical Mixed Logit Model
Hybrid Vehicle Attributes

File:

Download Master_thesis__Shuaiqi_Huang__final_edition_.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hopper, Travis Alan

Title:

Estimating Early-age Thermally-induced Stresses in Concrete Bridge Decks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bridge deck
early age
thermal stress

File:

Download Hopper_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Gao, Xueyu

Title:

Modeling Uncertainty in Large_scale Urban Traffic Networks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram
Adaptive Signal Control
Urban Traffic Control
Markov Chain Model

File:

Download Dissertation_XueyuGao_finalsubmit.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member

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:

Manafpour, Amir

Title:

Field Investigation And Statistical Modeling Of In-service Performance Of Concrete Bridge Decks In Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete cracking
Field inspections
Concrete Bridge Decks
Semi-Markov Model
Probabilistic Deterioration Modeling

File:

Download Manafpour_Thesis_FINAL_SignaturePageCorrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Xingchen

Title:

A Comparison between Bayesian Model Averaging and Heteroscedastic Censored Logistic Regression Using 2012 GEFS Precipitation Reforecasts over the US Middle-Atlantic Region

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

ensemble forecast
postprocessing

File:

Download Thesis_Xingchen_Yang.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven J Greybush, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ahams, Ikechukwu C

Title:

Virtual Water Transfers in Major Us Cities from Domestic Commodity Flows

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Water Footprint
Virtual Water Content
US Cities

File:

Download Chris_Ahams_Thesis_042616.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Zhengyao

Title:

Modeling Bus Transit Operations: Passenger Occupancy and Travel Time

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

public transportation
real-time information
travel time
passenger occupancy

File:

Download Thesis_ZhengyaoYu_1126.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kolli, Purna Chand

Title:

Post-earthquake collapse prognostication of structural systems using sparse response data

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Collapse prognostication
sparse response data
genetic algorithms
parameter estimation
nonlinear structural systems

File:

Download Purna_Kolli_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moraes Neves, Juliana Moraes

Title:

The Alkali-Silica Reaction in Alkali-Activated Fly Ash Concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Alkali-silica reaction
alkali-activated
fly ash
pore solution

File:

Download J.Neves_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wood, Jonathan Sayre

Title:

Causal inference in traffic safety research: comparison of the empirical Bayes and propensity scores-potential outcomes methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Causal inference
empirical Bayes
transportation safety
genetic matching
propensity scores
crash modification factor

File:

Download Wood_Doctoral_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Luke John Keele, Special Member
Glenn A Firebaugh, Special Member

Author:

Zhou, Xinyu

Title:

Evaluating Drivers’ Stop-line Violation Behavior at Signalized Intersections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stop line violation
driver behaviors

File:

Download Xinyu_Zhou_Evaluating_Drivers__Stop-line_Violation_Behaviors_at_Signalized_Intersections.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinyu Zhou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Salwocki, Stephen Bray

Title:

Novel Performance Tests for Evaluation of Alkali-silica Reaction

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete durability
Alkali-Silica Reaction

File:

Download SB_Salwocki_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Deprator, Anthony Joseph

Title:

Dynamic Traffic Control: The Treatment of Left Turns in an Urban Grid Network

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic
Traffic Flow Theory
Traffic Operations
Traffic Control
Dynamic
Dynamic Traffic Control
Urban Grid Networks
Operations
Transportation

File:

Download DePrator_PSU_Thesis_FINAL3.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Labarge, Nicole Alyse

Title:

Effects of acclimation methods on anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactors and methanogenic microbial electrolysis cells

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

AFMBR
MEC
wastewater treatment
COD removal
methane generation
GAC
activated carbon

File:

Download Nicole_LaBarge_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Ernest Logan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Harmony, Xavier J

Title:

Evaluating the Implementation of Real-time Transit Information through an Examination of Information Supply and Demand

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transit
public transportation
real-time information
public transit
information supply
information demand

File:

Download XJHarmony_Thesis__FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smithgall, Kurt Richard

Title:

STREAMBANK CRITICAL SHEAR STRESS ESTIMATIONS USING SSURGO AND EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stream restoration
bank erosion
critical shear stress
SSURGO
soil parameterization

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Smithgall_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Luo, Xi

Title:

Dynamic Response of Overlay Pavement Due to Moving Load

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Unbonded Overlay;Analytical model;Numerical Model;Moving Load

File:

Download final_thesis_Xi_Luo_4_26.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sun, Nuan

Title:

DRILLING MORE WELLS OR DOING PUMPING TEST: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIVE VALUE OF WATER HEAD AND CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS IN REDUCING INVERSE GROUNDWATER MODELING ERROR

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Data worth
Inverse groundwater modeling
Water head
Hydraulic conductivity
Cost-effectiveness

File:

Download Thesis_Nuan_Sun.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Talebpour, Mahdad

Title:

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT-DRIVEN SECONDARY FLOW

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

secondary flow
k-omega
cfd
roughness

File:

Download Mahdad_Talebpour_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Eie, Wei-Yin

Title:

EVALUATING THE CLEARVIEW TYPEFACE SYSTEM AND HIGHWAY STANDARD ALPHABETS SERIES FOR POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONTRAST SIGNS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic signs
Typeface
Legibility distance
Glance legibility
Clearview font

File:

Download Weiyin_Eie_Dissertation__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin T. Pietrucha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin T. Pietrucha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul P. Jovanis, Committee Member
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Jason Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Gao, Yin

Title:

FIELD AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF A 3D DYNAMIC TRAIN-TRACK INTERACTION MODEL AT CRITICAL SPEEDS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

train-track interaction
track dynamics
field validation
critical speed
hanging tie
crosstie movement

File:

Download Yin_Gao_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Outside Member
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Bychkowski, Michael Edward

Title:

PULLOUT RESISTANCE OF SOIL ANCHORS IN COHESIONLESS SOIL UNDER VARYING VELOCITIES BY EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Pullout
Soil anchors
Velocity
Cohesionless
Resistance
Depth
Diameter

File:

Download MBychkowski_Thesis_2016-07-26_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Zoltan Ivan Rado, Committee Member

Author:

Adams, Benjamin T.

Title:

Experimental and Analytical Investigations of the Relative and Interactive Effects of Physicochemical Fluid Characteristics on the Incipient Motion of Granular Particles Under Laminar Flow Conditions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

soil erosion
incipient motion
pH
ionic strength
viscosity
laminar
granular

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation__Benjamin_T._Adams__-_Post_Defense.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tavassoti Kheiry, Pezhouhan

Title:

Non-Destructive Characterization of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures through Resonant Column Testing

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Asphalt Concrete
Nondestructive Test
Damping
Resonant Column Test
Shear Modulus
Dynamic Modulus

File:

Download Pezhouhan_Tavassoti-Kheiry_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Sung ho

Title:

An Engineered Clay Soil System Using Functional Polymers

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

clay
pH-responsive polymer
clay-polymer nanocomposites
DPD

File:

Download SunghoKim_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Angelica M. Palomino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mian C. Wang, Committee Member
James H. Adair, Committee Member
Coray M. Colina, Committee Member
Peggy A. Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Ye, Hailong

Title:

MECHANISMS AND MITIGATION OF SHRINKAGE IN ALKALI-ACTIVATED SLAG

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

alkali-activated cement
shrinkage mechanisms
carbonation
blast-furnace slag
concrete
early-age cracking

File:

Download Hailong_Ye_PhD_Thesis_Nov22_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Radlińska, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Radlińska, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
William Burgos, Committee Member
Carlo Pantano, Outside Member

Author:

Boz, Ilker

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF ASPHALT MIXTURES AND RAP BINDER PROPERTIES THROUGH IMPACT RESONANCE TEST

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Impact Resonance Test
Resonant Frequency
Asphalt Concrete
RAP
Modulus
Characterization

File:

Download IlkerBoz_PhDDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Durland Laurence Shumway, Outside Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chu

Title:

PREDICTION OF CONSOLIDATION TIMES FOR SHEAR STRENGTH TESTING OF GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS USING CS2 MODEL

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geosynthetic clay liner
consolidation
shear strength testing

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Chu_Wang_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Fox, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Yizhi

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF FRAGILITY INFORMATION FOR BUILDING LIGHT-FRAME AND ENVELOPE SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fragility
SIPs
light-frame
building envelope
performance-based seismic design

File:

Download Thesis__Final_Version_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aly Marei Said, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Yi

Title:

SUSPENSION PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE NUMERICAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND LOAD CASE SIMULATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Suspension pedestrian bridge
numerical model
dynamic behavior
load case simulation

File:

Download Thesis_YiMao.pdf

Committee Members:

JEFFREY A. LAMAN, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
ALI MEMARI, Committee Member
GORDON WARN, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Meet M

Title:

A Methodology for Development of Design Permit Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Influence Lines
Bridge
Bridge Analysis
Permit Vehicle
Design Live Load

File:

Download Thesis_MMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A. Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Kamel Hedayat Abad, Mohammad Ehsan

Title:

INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY OF BUILDING ENVELOPE INFORMATION AND ENERGY MODELING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Modeling
Building Envelope Information
Building Information Modeling
Energy Smart Home
Building Energy Retrofit
gbXML
EnergyPlus
OpenStudio
BIM

File:

Download INTEGRATION_AND_INTEROPERABILITY_OF_BUILDING_ENVELOPE_INFORMATION_AND_ENERGY_MODELING.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
José Duarte, Outside Member
David Riley, Committee Member

Author:

Lalwani, Dipesh Suresh

Title:

Mechanistic Model for Lead Rubber Bearings

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

elastomeric
lead rubber bearing
seismic isolation
seismic isolation bearing model

File:

Download Thesis_Dipesh_Lalwani.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Gordon P. Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Jeffrey A. Laman, Committee Member
Dr. KONSTANTINOS PAPAKONSTANTINOU, Committee Member

Author:

Siddique, Ridwan

Title:

IMPROVING MEDIUM-RANGE STREAMFLOW FORECASTING ACROSS U.S. MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrological modeling
Hydrological forecasting
Numerical weather prediction

File:

Download Dissertation_062117.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Duffy, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member
Seann Reed, Special Member

Author:

Jovanovic, Tijana

Title:

Scaling, complexity, and stochasticity of urban watersheds

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

urban hydrology
urbanization
temporal scaling
spatial scaling
complexity
entropy
stochasticity
land use land cover change

File:

Download TJovanovic_PhDDissertation_Final_07252017.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Johnson, Committee Member
Christofer Duffy, Committee Member
Heather Gall, Outside Member

Author:

Gholizadeh Vayghan, Asghar

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL AND SWELLING PROPERTIES OF SYNTHETIC ALKALI SILICATE GELS IN ORDER TO PREDICT THEIR BEHAVIOR IN ASR DAMAGED CONCRETE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Alkali-silica reaction
Alkali-silicate gels
Swelling properties
Rheological properties

File:

Download A._Gholizadeh-Vayghan__Revised_PhD_dissertation_manuscript_.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William D. Burgos, Committee Member
Carlo G. Pantano, Committee Member
James L. Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Shu, Lele

Title:

Impacts of urbanization and climate change on the hydrological cycle: A case study in modern and ancient land use change

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
land use change
urbanization
climate chnge
hydrologic modeling
PIHM
water availability
Maya
Tikal
Conestoga
Lancaster

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Member
Kirk French, Outside Member

Author:

Hojati, Maryam

Title:

Shrinkage and Creep of Alkali-Activated Binders

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Drying Shrinkage
Creep
Alkali-Activated Binder
Fly Ash
Slag
Cement Free Binders

File:

Download Hojati_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Radlinska, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Radlinska, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Ali M. Memari, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Outside Member

Author:

Gomez Sanchez, Michael Josue

Title:

Medium-range ensemble flood forecast inundation maps: The case of the tidal Delaware River near Philadelphia

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic modeling
Hydraulic modeling
Flood inundation mapping
Medium-range flood forecast
Water-level statistical postprocessing
River-estuary transition zone
Forecast verification

File:

Download final_thesis_MichaelGomez_C1.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

You, Yingzhe

Title:

METHODOLOGY FOR HURRICANE DAMAGE ESTIMATION TO GLAZING SYSTEM TOWARDS PROBABILISTIC LOSS ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fragility
Hurricane damage
Performance-Based Engineering
Glazing system
Loss assessment
Wind-borne debris
Wind-driven rain

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mohebbi, Mina

Title:

ENHANCING THE BENEFICIAL USE OF FLY ASH IN CONCRETE AND IN MINE RECLAMATION: MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIC CARBON AND PREDICTING THE LONG TERM LEACHING OF HARMFUL ELEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fly ash
mine reclamation
concrete
organic carbon
long-term leaching
reactive transport modeling

File:

Download Final_Submission-_PhD_Dissertation-_Mina_Mohebbi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Li Li, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member

Author:

Ghahramani, Sara

Title:

Carbonation of Alkali-Activated Slag Mortar

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

alkali-activated slag
AAS
carbonation
non-destructive testing
NDT
shrinkage
mortar durability

File:

Download Sara_Ghahramani_-_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Outside Member

Author:

Thukral, Payal

Title:

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING SOLVERS FOR HYBRID FINITE ELEMENT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear finite element analysis
Newton's method
Nonlinear programming
Sequential quadratic programming
Crisfield's arc length method
Conjugate gradient method
Path continuation

File:

Download THESIS_PAYAL_THUKRAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Kostas Papakonstantinou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Gordon Warn, Committee Member
Dr. Ali Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Carroll, Samuel N

Title:

Managing Stable Waterways at Bridges in the Mid-Atlantic

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stream crossings
stream stability
channel stability
bridge crossings
bridges
stream assessments

File:

Download CarrollSThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Peggy Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Bowen

Title:

TRANSVERSE DISTRIBUTION FACTORS FOR HORIZONTALLY CURVED BRIDGES UNDER THE EFFECT OF PERMIT VEHICLES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

live load distribution factor
curved bridge
warping and bending
permit vehicle
steel I-girder bridge

File:

Download Master_of_Science__Bowen_Yang_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member

Author:

Rathod, Yogesh

Title:

EVALUATION OF SEISMIC STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY METHODOLOGIES USING NON-STATIONARY SIMULATED GROUND MOTIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fragility
IDA
Cloud Method
Softmax Regression

File:

Download Yogesh_Rathod_MS_Thesis_Civil_Engineering_Department.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hitchcock, Owen Martin

Title:

Methods to reduce dimensionality and identify candidate solutions in multi-objective signal timing problems

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

multi-objective optimization
traffic signal timing
optimal solution

File:

Download Thesis_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member

Author:

Berman, Danielle Hope

Title:

Public Opinion Regarding Autonomous Vehicle Privacy and Security

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous vehicles
public opinion
survey
privacy
cybersecurity

File:

Download Berman_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin T Pietrucha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member

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:

Lin, Xu

Title:

IMPROVING THE LOCATION OF TEMPORARY PARKING SPOTS FOR TOURIST BUSES IN DOWNTOWN BEIJING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

PARKING SPOTS
TOURIST BUSES
LOCATION
IMPROVEMENT
SIMULATION
VISSIM
ATTRACTIONS

File:

Download Master_Thesis__Xu_Lin_.pdf

Committee Members:

Sukran Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Yuetan

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF FLUID’S PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS ON PIPING EROSION PROGRESSION OF A SILTY SAND

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Piping erosion
Viscosity
pH
Ionic strength
Hole erosion test
Erosion rate index
Physicochemical effect

File:

Download Yuetan_Ma_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nazari, Saharnaz

Title:

IDENTIFYING BALLAST FOULING USING STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES ON SMARTROCK DATA

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Ballast Fouling
Railway
SmartRock
Statistical Pattern Recognition Analysis

File:

Download final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Hai Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Xinli Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Dorley, Jancoba K

Title:

Understanding the relationship between climate change and concentration-discharge discharge: Agricutural Nitrate in the clear creek watershed.

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concentration-discharge Dynamic
Nitrate export
Time series analysis
Climate projections

File:

Download Dorley_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cibin Raj, Committee 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:

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

Author:

Li, Lingyu

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF SHOULDER AND CENTERLINE RUMBLE STRIPS: A BAYESIAN PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Propensity score matching
crash modification factor
shoulder and centerline rumble strips
safety effect estimates
causal inference
Bayesian method
covariate balancing

File:

Download Lingyu_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Kari Lock Morgan, Outside Member

Author:

Kersavage, Kristin

Title:

Relationship between Speed Metrics and Crash Frequency and Severity: Implications for Roadway Design

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

speed
crash risk
crash frequency and severity
negative binomial
binary logistic regression

File:

Download Kristin_Kersavage_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Zhengyao

Title:

Multi-resolution Analysis of Disruptions in Different Urban Network Configurations under Varying Information Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

traffic network resilience
left turn treatments
one-way streets
disruption information provision
urban traffic network

File:

Download Dissertation_Yu.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash V. Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Gawelko, Lexi Nicole

Title:

Can Meta-Soil Attenuate Seismic Waves?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

metamaterial
earthquake
civil engineering
perioidic foundation
resonator

File:

Download Gawelko_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Kan

Title:

BUS TRANSIT PRIORITY: MODELING AND EVALUATING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bus transit priority
transit signal priority
traffic flow theory
kinematic wave theory
queuing theory

File:

Download Kan_950090433_PhD_dissertation_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T. Pietrucha, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Xinrui

Title:

APPLICATION OF INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY ON THE IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF BUILDING ENVELOPE THERMAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Building Envelope; Infrared Thermography; Building Science; R-value

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Xinrui_Lu.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Outside Member
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Yuncheng

Title:

3D numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around in-stream structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

immersed boundary method
OpenFOAM
CFD
scour modeling
sediment transport
in-stream structure
large woody debris

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Outside Member

Author:

Szeles, Tiffany

Title:

Damage mitigation and prediction of alkali-silica reaction in concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Alkali-silica reaction
Mitigation
Service life
Aluminum
Design of experiment

File:

Download Dissertation_TiffanySzeles_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Guang

Title:

MESHFREE VISCOELASTIC MODELING: TOWARD NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PRINTING CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Reproducing Kernel Particle Method
viscoelastic modeling
Meshfree methods
3D printing

File:

Download PSUThesis_GuangChen.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Charles Hillman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Yen Chieh

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF MINE TAILINGS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

mine tailings
coal slurry
mineral properties
coefficient of consolidation

File:

Download YenChiehWang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Rong

Title:

PREDICTION OF GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF COAL SLURRIES USING CONE PENETRATION TEST

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Coal slurry
liquefaction
correlated shear modulus
preconsolidation
soil classification

File:

Download Rong_Zhao_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sharma, Sanjib

Title:

ADVANCING A REGIONAL HYDROLOGIC ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Streamflow forecasting
.Hydrometeorology
Water quantity prediction
Numerical weather prediction

File:

Download Dissertation042319.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Yinghai

Title:

using real-time speed data to quantify impacts of weather on travel speeds

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Weather
Travel Speed
Linear Regression
Random Forest
Partial Dependence Plot

File:

Download Thesis_Yinghai_Yu_07182019.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Zhenyu

Title:

Material Design and Properties of Geopolymer Mortar for Applications in 3D Printing

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geopolymer
3D Printing
Regression Model

File:

Download Zhenyu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Radlińska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Shelley Stoffels, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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:

Jin, Jiang

Title:

THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES AND ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

acoustic nonlinearity
microstructural features
contact acoustic nonlinearity
dynamic acousto-elastic testing
single impact-based nonlinear resonant acoustic spectroscopy

File:

Download Jiang_Jin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Outside Member
Joseph Rose, Outside Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Xuan

Title:

USE OF SEMI-CIRCULAR BEND TEST TO CHARACTERIZE FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT CONCRETE WITH VIRGIN AND RECYCLED MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Asphalt
Cracking
Fracture
Semi-Circular Bend
Recycled Materials
Asphalt Concrete
Performance Test
Balanced Mix Design

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Xuan_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Member

Author:

Zahedi, Mona

Title:

Evaluating the Use of Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash as Concrete Pozzolan

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fluidized Bed Combustion
Fly ash
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
ASTM C618
Mechanical properties
Durability
Concrete
Hydration mechanism
Beneficiation

File:

Download PhD_dissertation-Mona_Zahedi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Garcia Gonzalez, Susana Elizabeth

Title:

CONNECTIVITY IN THE U.S. HYDROECONOMIC NETWORK: TOWARD CONSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING OF NATIONAL CONSUMPTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Water Footprint
Environmental Accounting
Complex Networks
Input-Output Modeling
Virtual Water

File:

Download SGarciaGonzalez_Dissertation_10032019.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tang, Houjun

Title:

TRAFFIC SAFETY PREDICTION: AN APPLICATION OF DATA MINING ALGORITHMS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic Safety
Data Mining
Crash Severity
Crash Frequency

File:

Download Dissertation_by_Houjun_Tang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liang, Xiao

Title:

TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL IN A CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERING PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic signal control
connected vehicles
autonomous vehicles
pedestrians
genetic algorithm

File:

Download Xiao_Liang-Dissertaion.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Jose A. Ventura, Outside Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Barzegari, Saman

Title:

Application of Bio-Binders as Sustainable Alternative to Conventional Asphalt Binders

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bio-binder
asphalt binder
rheology
sustainability
alternate binders
asphalt pavements

File:

Download Saman_Barzegari_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Stephen C Chmely, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Akbarpour, Hamed

Title:

FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE: ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fire Following Earthquake
Fire
Multi-hazard
Seismic Design
Earthquake
Analytical Assessment

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Committee Member
Somayeh Asadi, Outside Member
Amr S. Elnashai, Special Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zilong

Title:

DYNAMICS OF COUPLED FLOW-OBJECT-SEDIMENT SYSTEMS WITH SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH) SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fluid-object-sediment interaction
multi-phase
SPH
visco-elastoplastic model

File:

Download ZilongLi-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bennett, Matthew

Title:

Factors Affecting Airfield Pavement Performance in the United States Air Force Enterprise Wide

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

airfield pavement
asset management
pavement management
united states air force
united states air force pavement
distress
pavement distress
pavement performance
pavement asset management
air force

File:

Download Matthew_Bennett_s_Master_s_Thesis_11-14-2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Collins, Peter

Title:

Microgravity's Influence on the Hydration of Tricalcium Aluminate and Gypsum Pastes

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

tricalcium aluminate
gypsum
microgravity
cement
hydration
International Space Station

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Peter_Collins_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Committee Member
Richard N Grugel, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haddat, Mohamed

Title:

MODELING THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF A BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Bridge frequency response
Dynamic response of bridges

File:

Download Bridge_Frequency_Response.pdf

Committee Members:

Shashidhara S Marikunte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair
Sofia Margarita Vidalis, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Committee Member

Author:

Mahjabin, Tasnuva

Title:

Integrating Embedded Resources and Network Analysis to Understand Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the US

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Food-Energy-Water nexus
Virtual water
Water footprint
Nitrogen footprint
Embedded resources
Network analysis
Scaling
Urban indicator
Sustainability

File:

Download Tasnuva_Mahjabin_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caitlin A Grady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dalesandro, Kienan

Title:

Durability of Internally Cured Concrete with Reclaimed Sands

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

concrete
internal curing
recycled aggregate
reclaimed sands
lightweight aggregate
lightweight concrete
durability
freeze thaw resistance
rapid chloride permeability

File:

Download Dalesandro_MSCE_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Grady F Mathews, IV, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair
Shashidhara S Marikunte, Committee Member
Shirley Elizabeth Clark, Committee Member

Author:

Guadamuz, Renato

Title:

Exponomial Model for Multiple Discrete-Continuous Choices: Analysis of Activity Time-Use Patterns in Dual Earner Households

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

multiple discrete-continuous
exponomial
activity-time use
choice model
travel demand

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Renato_Guadamuz.pdf

Committee Members:

Rajesh Paleti, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Program Head/Chair