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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

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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

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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

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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

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Author:: Madara, Benjamin James
Title:: Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: permeability evolution
permeability
dynamic stressing
fracture
shear
permeability enhancement
File:: Download Dissertation_Madara.pdf
Committee Members:: Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Schwartz, Brandon
Title:: THE ROLE OF PORE STRUCTURE IN PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OBSERVED IN LABORATORY STUDIES OF MARCELLUS AND WOLFCAMP SHALE
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: permeability evolution
shale
pore structure
pore geometry
material stiffness
permeability enhancement
File:: Download Brandon_Schwartz_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

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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

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Author:: Zhang, Rui
Title:: Investigation of Pore Structure and Sorption Behavior for Unconventional Gas Reservoir Rocks
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: pore structure
adsorption
small-angle neutron scattering
coalbed methane
shale gas
unconventional natural gas
File:: Download PhD_dissertation_Rui_Zhang.pdf
Committee Members:: Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Outside Member
Lilin He, Special Member

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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

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