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Author:

Park, Minho

Title:

Longitudinal Methods for Prioritizing Highway Safety Investments

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geometric Effects
Crash Frequency
Accident Severity
Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Model
Multinomial Logit Model

File:

Download Dissertation-Minho_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member

Author:

Kasprzyk, Joseph Robert

Title:

Many Objective Water Resources Planning and Management Given Deep Uncertainties, Population Pressures, and Environmental Change

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

water supply
environmental management
uncertainty analysis
visual analytics
optimization
robustness
decision making

File:

Download Thesis_-_J._Kasprzyk_-_phD_-_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Michael Gooseff, Committee Member
Gregory Characklis, Special Member

Author:

Langford, Zachary Lance

Title:

Are the Dry Valleys Getting Wetter? A Preliminary Assessment of Wetness Across the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys Landscape

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Remote Sensing
Snow Hydrology
Streams

File:

Download ZachLangford_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Michael Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Ann Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kinney, Scott Allen

Title:

Assessment of Load Sharing Members in an Anti-ram Bollard System Subjected to Vehicle Impacts

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Modeling
Anti-ram
Bollard
Load Sharing
Steel Member Design
Parametric Study
Crash Testing

File:

Download Kinney_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dan Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Newpher, Brandon James

Title:

Field Evaluation of Dynamic Load Factors for Historic Through-truss Bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Load Factor
Impact Factor
Dynamic Load Allowance
Through-Truss Bridges
Lenticular Arch
Pratt Truss

File:

Download Newpher_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Boothby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Himes, Scott Charles

Title:

Reliability Based Design of Horizontal Curves Considering the Effects of Grades

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability
Highway Safety
Transportation Design

File:

Download Scott_Himes_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Dr Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Dr, Darren Torbic, Special Member

Author:

Jones, Kendra Diana

Title:

Blast Resistance of Polyurea-coated Granite Cladding Walls

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

blast
explosive
granite cladding
polyurea
polymer
high-strain rate
fragmentation

File:

Download Thesis_Jones_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Daniel Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoltan Ivan Rado, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Urban, Rachel Lorah

Title:

Pandora's Box: Can We Distinguish Groundwater transport Hypotheses Given Observational uncertainties?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

groundwater
transport
observational uncertainty

File:

Download Urban_Thesis_03.30_comp.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Noveral, Christian James

Title:

Investigation of a hollow structural section connection and transfer member for load sharing in anti-ram vehicle barriers

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

anti-ram
barrier
finite element analysis
HSS
hollow structural section
connection
LS-DYNA

File:

Download Noveral_Thesis_Final_full.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Daniel G Linzell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Venkittaraman, Ashok

Title:

Seismic Resilience of Highway Bridges

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete bridges
fragility analysis
resilience
sensitivity study
cost analysis

File:

Download Thesis_Final_-_Ashok_Venkittaraman.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Swagata Banerjee Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Pragati

Title:

Time-dependent damage based tension stiffening in reinforced concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Cracking
Tension Stiffening
Time-dependent deformation
Creep
Shrinkage
Reinforced Concrete.

File:

Download Thesis_Pragati_Singh.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Scanlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Deng, Pu

Title:

A model for simulating the compression stiffness degradation in circular elastomeric bearings due to fatigue

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

elastomeric bearing
fatigue
compression stiffness
simulation

File:

Download thesis_of_Deng.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thomas, Evan Michael

Title:

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Stable Isotope Compositions at the Susquehanna-shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stable isotopes
deuterium
oxygen-18
hydrology

File:

Download Thomas_MS_Thesis_2.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kramer, Cory Adam

Title:

An Experimental Investigation on Performance of a Model Geothermal Pile in Sand

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

geothermal
pile
sand
experimental
laboratory
energy
soil

File:

Download Thesis_-_Final_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gao, Yin

Title:

A 3D DYNAMIC TRAIN-TRACK INTERACTION MODEL TO STUDY TRACK PERFORMANCE UNDER TRAINS RUNNING AT CRITICAL SPEED

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

High speed rail
critical speed
train-track interaction model

File:

Download Thesis_Yin_Gao.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Jiejian

Title:

STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF A HYBRID GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER BRIDGE DECK SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

lightweight
composite bridge deck
grout
experimentation
structure behavior
analytical model

File:

Download Thesis_Submission_-_Jiejian_Zhu_-_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Lopez De Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Riddhi

Title:

An uncertainty framework for hydrologic projections in gauged and ungauged basins under non-stationary climate conditions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Climate change impact on water resources
uncertainty
decision making
vulnerability
hydrologic modelling
space-for-time

File:

Download Singh_Thesis_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Thorsten Wagener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Prof Michael Gooseff, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member

Author:

Kargah Ostadi, Nima

Title:

Enhancing Analytical Toolboxes of Pavement Management Systems via Integration of Computational Intelligence

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

pavement management
backcalculation
performance model
computational intelligence
neural network
evolutionary algorithms

File:

Download NIMA_FINAL_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Committee Member

Author:

Kelleher, Christa Ann

Title:

Interpreting hydrologic behavior in headwater streams using comparative hydrology

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hydrology
headwater streams
sensitivity analysis
watersheds

File:

Download CKelleher_Dissertation_7_17_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gooseff, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Sawicz, Keith Alexander

Title:

Catchment classification - Understanding hydrologic similarity through catchment function

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Catchment Classification
Hydrology
Watershed
Hydrologic Function
Hydrologic Modeling
Hydrologic Signatures

File:

Download Sawicz_PhDDissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Murugesu Sivapalan, Special Member

Author:

Han, Xing

Title:

an analytical model for simulating the critical behavior of elastomeric seismic isolation bearings

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

seismic isolation
elastomeric bearing
stability
analytical model
earthquake response

File:

Download Han-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Cidney Joelle

Title:

Describing Damage to Stream Modification Projects

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

streams
restoration
damage assessment
vulnerability
risk analysis

File:

Download PS_Thesis_Jones.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy Ann Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fuhrman, Daniel Martin

Title:

Field Performance of a New Fiber Reinforced Polymer Bridge Deck

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

FRP
fiber reinforced polymer
deck
bridge
serviceability
composite action
distribution factors

File:

Download D_Fuhrman_Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Lopez De Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wagdy Wassef, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kwon, Daniel Wontak

Title:

Vulnerability Analysis And Risk Assessment For Dynamic Nonmotorized Human Travel Activity Networks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transportation security
micro simulation
travel behavior
risk ratio
simultaneous equations

File:

Download KWON--Dissertation-Vulnerability_Analysis__Risk_Assessment.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member