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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:

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