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Author:

Soliman, Martina

Title:

The Utilization of Reclaimed Waste-to-Energy Aggregates as Lightweight Sand in Concrete Masonry Units and Precast Concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Waste-to-Energy
Lightweight Aggregates
Reclaimed Sands
Internal Curing
Precast Concrete
Concrete Masonry Units (CMU)

File:

Download Soliman_MSCE_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Grady F Mathews, IV, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shashidhara S Marikunte, Committee Member
Richard Christopher Ciocci, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patel, Maitrey

Title:

Permeability of Silty Sands Compacted with Kaolinite or Illite :A Preliminary Study Using Micro-Computed-Tomography

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Soil
Clayey Soil
Kaolinite
Illite
Permeability
Micro-Computed-Tomography
Compacted Clayey Soil
Soil pore Structure
Silty Sand
Soil Mechanics
Mathematical modeling
Clay minerals
X-ray

File:

Download Thesis_Maitrey_Patel_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sai Prasad Kakuturu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shirley Elizabeth Clark, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Moraes Neves, Juliana Moraes

Title:

Advancing the Processing of Cement-Based Materials in Extraterrestrial Environments

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Cement hydration
Microgravity
Microstructure
Space research
Phase Distribution

File:

Download JNeves_Apr19_PhD_FINAL2.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Special Member
Richard N. Grugel, Special Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Salam, Sajjad

Title:

Cyclic Behavior of Fine Coal Refuse and Seismic Stability of Coal Tailings Dams

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

cyclic behavior
coal tailings
liquefaction
physical modeling
PM4Silt
seismic stability
stochastic modeling
aging
strain history

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Sajjad_Salam.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Wana, Roud

Title:

Effect of Supplementary Cementitious Materials on the Performance of Fiber Reinfoced Self-Consolidating Concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Supplementary Cementitious Materials
Sika ViscoCrete-2100 HRWR
Macro-Synthetic Fiber Forta-Ferro
Self-Consolidating Mortar
Self-Consolidating Concrete
Fiber Reinforce Self-Consolidating Concrete

File:

Download Thesis_Wana_Roud_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jia, Hang

Title:

ALTERNATE APPROACHES FOR EXAMINING THE NEED FOR UPDATING SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

RENB
annual indicator in SPF estimate
predictive ability
calibration factor approach
updating SPFs

File:

Download Hang_Jia_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rajesh Paleti, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wright, Jared Robert

Title:

Developing Predictive Tools and Guidance to Increase the Durability of Concrete Infrastructure by Reducing Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) and Early-Age Cracking

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete Durability
Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR)
Fly Ash
PennDOT
Glass Pozzolan

File:

Download Wright__Jared_Final_Dissertation_20210416.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher A Gorski, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Kwadwo Asare Osseo-Asare, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jamal Alaoui, Yousra

Title:

Ultra-high strength concrete: Effect of supplementary cementitious materials and their proportions.

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Ultra high strength concrete
Compressive strength
Supplementary cementitious materials
Silica fume
Metakaolin
Pumice

File:

Download Yousra_MSCE_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shashidhara S Marikunte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Committee Member
Rajarajan Subramanian, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Amir, Mariyam

Title:

A degradation-plasticity finite element and system identification scheme for efficient model-based and data-informed structural condition assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hysteretic finite element model
Multiaxial interactions
Distributed plasticity
Interpolation functions
Coupled degradation-plasticity
Geometric nonlinearity
ODEs/DAEs
State-space formulation
Hidden Markov model
Scaled Spherical Simplex Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Sigma points
Sequential probabilistic inference
Dual state-parameter estimation
Online nonlinear filtering
Bayesian inference
Large scale system identification
Model-data fusion

File:

Download MariyamAmir-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lin, Kuan Chung

Title:

A nodally integrated thermo-mechanical meshfree formulation with application to fused deposition modeling

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Meshfree methods
Fused deposition modeling
Nodal integration
Coupled thermal mechanical formulation
Naturally stablized nodal integration
Variationally consistent integration

File:

Download Kuan-Chung_Lin_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Charles Hillman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Charles Hillman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Pinlei Chen, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Outside Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair