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- 47Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 18Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 18Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 17Department of Computing Science
- 16Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 4Department of Physics
- 5AbouRizk, Simaan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Dinavahi, Venkata (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Mohamed, Yasser (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2AbouRizk, Simaan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2014
Connected Vehicle (CV) technology is a promising advancement that has the potential to improve traffic safety and traffic efficiency, and support other Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications through facilitating vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Since...
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A Framework for Design of Panelized Wood Framing Prefabrication Utilizing Multi-panels and Crew Balancing
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The construction industry is highly competitive and continually striving towards improving its performance in terms of time, cost, quality, and safety. Improved performance is essential to survival in today’s construction market. In this regard, measuring productivity can facilitate improved...
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Fall 2014
This research focuses on the accounts payable function in construction firms. The cash conversion cycle includes accounts payable and accounts receivable support functions. Research objectives focus on mapping the existing accounts payable processes in construction, building a model to represent...
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Fall 2013
Construction project costs are exchanged in the form of large numbers of purchase orders, which translates into many thousands of invoices. In typical contractual relationships, these invoices are exchanged between all parties involved in a construction project, including owners, engineers,...
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Spring 2015
Although much academic research has been performed in the study of construction process simulation, this research has not seen mainstream application in the construction industry. Many factors play a deterrent role in the adoption of simulation by construction end users, mainly the time, cost and...
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de Bruin, Arie, Plaat, Aske, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Pijls, Wim
Technical report TR95-15. This paper has three main contributions to our understanding of fixed-depth minimax search: (A) A new formulation for Stockman's SSS* algorithm, based on Alpha-Beta, is presented. It solves all the perceived drawbacks of SSS, finally transforming it into a practical...
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Fall 2015
Transceiver duty-cycling (DC) is a popular technique to conserve energy in a wireless sensor network (WSN). In this thesis, our overall objective is to study the performance of a DC WSN. Namely, we consider the performance of a DC WSN from the point of throughput, as well as energy consumption,...
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Fall 2014
In today’s vehicle applications, Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) ammonia dosing is completed using complex control algorithms that need to be parameterized for the individual catalytic converter technology. The parameterization of these control strategies is not always completed during the...
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A comparative study between optimal metal and composite rotors for flywheel energy storage systems
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Most recent research on flywheel rotors has focused on high-speed composite rotors as the storage element of the flywheel energy storage system (FESS). Literature research indicates that this is primarily due to the high specific energy of composites compared to metals. However, a quantitative...
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A comparative study between optimal metal and composite rotors for flywheel energy storage systems
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Most recent research on flywheel rotors has focused on high-speed composite rotors as the storage element of the flywheel energy storage system (FESS). Literature research indicates that this is primarily due to the high specific energy of composites compared to metals. However, a quantitative...