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- 5AbouRizk, Simaan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Deutsch, Clayton V. (Civil and Environmental 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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Accounting for non-stationarity via hyper-dimensional translation of the domain in geostatistical modeling
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Medium and short term mine planning require models of mineral deposits that account for internal geological structures that permit scheduling of mine production at a weekly and monthly production periods. Modified kriging estimation techniques are used for accounting for such geologic structures....
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Addressing Order Relation Issues with Constrained Radial Basis Functions and Consistent Indicator Variograms
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Quantifying uncertainty is a critical task of resource delineation in the mining industry. Uncertainty is used to assess risk in economic evaluation and for classification in resource reporting. The inference of local distributions from conditioning data is key to quantifying uncertainty....
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Advanced quantitative techniques to enhance heavy and civil construction information modeling
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Site development in heavy and civil construction need to consider many rules such as ensuring proper drainage, prevention of flood, safety driving, optimizing earthwork, minimizing fleet travel distances, proper fleet matching and achieving high equipment utilization rates. In recent decades,...
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Fall 2016
Collecting information is of vital importance for the development of a mineral project. The capital costs of mining projects are high and there is significant risk due to the available data. At all stages of a project, from exploration to mine closure, decisions need to be made that are based off...
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Advances in Kriging-Based Modelling Approaches of Winter Weather Vehicular Collisions – A Region-Wide Geostatistical Investigation
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The winter season is known for brisk cold weather and beautiful snowfalls, but it is also known for deteriorated driving conditions to where the risk of collisions becomes a major issue that plagues many municipalities around the world. As such, agencies are tasked with and strive to prioritize...