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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