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- 31Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 25Deutsch, Clayton (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Spring 2023
Countries around the world strive to improve the well-being of their people; one of the means to achieve that is to ensure a safe, resilient, and efficient transportation network. Bhutan, a developing country, in southeast Asia, shares the common goal of poverty reduction and economic growth...
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Fall 2023
In recent years, the growing concern over fossil fuel supply insecurity and its negative environmental impacts has led researchers to focus on advancing renewable energy technologies. Buildings, which account for a significant portion of global energy consumption, offer great potential for...
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A Hybrid Analytical and Machine Learning Workflow for Completion Design Optimization in Unconventional Reservoirs
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Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling is the key to unlocking tight reservoirs. However, understanding the relationship between reservoir characteristics, completion design and well productivity remains challenging. In the past decade, over 40,000 multi-fractured horizontal wells...
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A Hybrid Decision Support System for Partition Wall Selection with an Application in Masonry Wall Systems
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Masonry construction offers a range of benefits as it serves multiple purposes in a single system. It is cost-effective, long-lasting, and provides an aesthetically pleasing appearance. Moreover, its design flexibility and reasonable construction costs make it even more appealing. Masonry wall...
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A Hybrid Fuzzy Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Analysis of Stochastic and Subjective Uncertainties in Construction Projects
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Discrete event simulation (DES) has proven to be an indispensable tool for planning and analyzing construction projects. Appropriate consideration of uncertainties of the inputs of DES results in more realistic outputs. Uncertainty in general can be categorized as stochastic and subjective....
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A Hybrid Simulation and Optimization Approach towards Truck Dispatching Problem in Surface Mines
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This PhD thesis has two main objectives. The first objective is to develop, implement, and verify an integrated simulation and optimization framework to study surface mining operations to address important drawbacks of currently available surface mining simulation models. These drawbacks include...
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Fall 2022
The considerable amount of time typically spent at home in contemporary society underscores the importance of understanding the interaction between occupants and built environments and implementing this knowledge into design practice to ensure occupant satisfaction and adequate building...