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Automatic Detection of Underground Objects in Ground Penetrating Radar Images using Machine Learning
DownloadFall 2021
The population increase has stimulated the need for the creation and expansion of existing urban infrastructures such as sewer, water, power and telecommunication lines. In order to support this need, multiple efforts to find sustainable solutions that support the urbanization trend have been...
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Fall 2014
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is one of the most rapidly growing technologies for utility installation under surface obstacles. The rapid growth in application of HDD has not accompanied the same level of development in engineering design procedures and efficient drilling techniques....
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Impact of Suspended Cuttings on Drilling Fluid Rheology and Hole Cleaning Capacity in Horizontal Directional Drilling
DownloadFall 2020
Trenchless technologies are a family of techniques to install or rehabilitate conduits under the ground without conventional open excavation processes. Among them, horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is one of the most popular methods for installation of pipelines under surface obstacles, due...
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Optimization of Drilling Fluid Flow Rates – A Study of the Drilling Fluid Flow rates and Annular Pressure in Horizontal Directional Drilling
DownloadSpring 2023
Trenchless technologies have experienced the fast development and dramatic change in the past three decades. Derived from oil and gas industry, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is considered as one of the most rapidly expanded trenchless technologies and widely used in infrastructure...
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Fall 2017
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a crossing technique for the oil and gas, utilities, and infrastructure sectors for pipeline installations in different situations under natural or manmade obstacles. Annular pressure (plan pressure) and maximum allowable pressure predictions are critical...
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Fall 2016
Since its first application in the 1970s, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) has steadily become one of the fastest growing trenchless construction methods for utility and conduit installation under surface obstacles. This rapid growth in HDD application could not have been accomplished...