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Impact of Mobile Photo Enforcement (MPE): An Analysis of the Duration Between Collisions at Enforced Sites
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Road collisions are one of the leading causes of death globally (1), with pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists accounting for more than 50% of road traffic fatalities. Many countries work hard to provide safer roads for all users, especially vulnerable ones, not least because the cost to most...
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Impact of Suspended Cuttings on Drilling Fluid Rheology and Hole Cleaning Capacity in Horizontal Directional Drilling
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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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Implementation and Verification of Simple Concrete Biaxial Models Under Monotonic, Cyclic, and Dynamic Loading
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An accurate prediction of the response and strength of concrete elements, which exhibit nonlinear behavior even under moderate loading, is essential for evaluating their safety and serviceability. To describe the nonlinear behavior of this material, continuum damage mechanics has been...
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Fall 2017
Although significant progress in the modelling of the nonlinear response of reinforced - concrete (RC) structures at the element level has been achieved in the past decades, reliable and accurate analysis models at the system level for RC structures are scarce. Due to the complexity of elements...
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Implementation of Bayesian Updating and Markov Chains to Improve Simulation of Stochastic Processes in Construction
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This thesis was mainly concerned with improving model-based prediction and forecasting of state variables of processes or systems using new, periodically-generated data within the construction domain. Some of these data are generated from field tests performed during feasibility studies, while...
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Spring 2011
Microbial pollution of water is one of the principal causes of life-threatening diarrheal diseases in the developing world. Ultraviolet (UV) light is increasingly recognized as a viable alternative for the disinfection of drinking water and wastewater in developed countries, but its feasibility...
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Implementing Model Predictive Control based Variable Speed Limit on Urban Freeways: Data Imputation, Model Modification and Field Test Analysis
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Among different freeway traffic control strategies, Variable Speed Limit (VSL) shows its excellence in terms of control scale, technical feasibility and the capability of improving driving environment and traffic throughput. The Model Predictive Control (MPC) based VSL method provides a close...
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Spring 2022
Camana Calderon, Fernando Agustin
Drilling is the primary source of geological information in the form of rock samples for geological logging and chemical assays. There are data from multiple drilling types in an open-pit mining operation, with unique technical features, costs, volume support, and sampling error and bias. The...
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Fall 2011
This dissertation proposes an improved facies modelling methodology that involves a new geological spatial characterization tool, a geological based spatial distance calculation, and a theoretically sound conditional probability calculation. The full set of bivariate probabilities are proposed...
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Improved Probabilistic Representation of Facies through Developments in Geostatistical Practice
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Reservoir management requires high resolution numerical geologic models of facies and petrophysical properties. Facies are arguably the most important reservoir heterogeneity. Many geostatistical facies modeling techniques have been proposed during the years of heavily practiced geostatistics in...