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Spring 2024

Essa, Maha

Cantilever–suspended-span construction, commonly referred to as Gerber girder systems, is a popular roof-framing system for large single-storey buildings in North America. This system consists of a series of simply-supported girders in the principal framing direction that extend beyond the column...

Fall 2012

Islam, Kamrul

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the geometric variations in the load-bearing joints among individuals. Two existing concepts in mathematics were introduced and their application in computational biomechanics was completely novel: 1) computing the depth of penetration between...

Spring 2022

Zeng, Jiangyu

The International Roughness Index (IRI) is one of the most critical indicators in the field of pavement performance management. Since the introduction of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many researchers have created different kinds of DNN models to forecast the IRI. However, none of them employed...

Spring 2019

Salazar Lopez, Jesus Ramon

to be effective at developing damage models that can be then implemented in finite element analysis (FEA) platforms. One such platform is the open-source, freely available software OpenSees, which is a FEA software framework for simulation in earthquake engineering (Fenves, 2001).This project studies

Fall 2017

Garcia Ramirez, Bernardo

applications in earthquake engineering using finite element methods. Finally, the new Mazars model is used to perform quasi-static, reversed cyclic and dynamic analysis of specimens found in literature, and the analytical results are verified with the test data.

Fall 2023

Alonso Rivers, Alan

Masonry walls with effective height-to-thickness (kh/t) ratios over 30 are commonly found in single-storey buildings such as school gymnasiums, warehouses, and industrial facilities. Stringent design requirements apply for walls with kh/t > 30 in North American Standards (CSA S304-14, TMS...

Fall 2014

Kainat, Muntaseer S

new imperfection measurement technique that employs a high resolution surface profiler for geometric data acquisition, and a reverse engineering software for the geometric analysis of line pipes. The measurements reveal that the geometric imperfections in UOE pipes follow certain patterns in terms of

Fall 2019

Woo, Janine B.

Dents are common occurrences along oil and gas pipelines and can be formed due to pipe contact with external forces such as rocks or construction equipment. There are many factors that contribute to the level of integrity concern of a dent including its shape, size, location on the pipe, and...

Spring 2024

Egbon, Benedict N.

walls the inner and outer wythes are made entirely of concrete while that of double wythe cavity masonry walls are mostly made of bricks and Concrete Masonry Units, respectively. Overall, the structural performance of both walls is largely influenced by the shear connection system, and existing shear

connection systems are currently being challenged by larger insulation thicknesses needed to meet stricter energy requirements. At the core of these changes to the thermal requirement for building envelopes, the structural load on walls such as the dead and live load are relatively unchanged, which means

Fall 2014

Mei, Qipei

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is widely accepted as a valuable tool for monitoring, inspecting and maintaining infrastructure systems. Damage detection is one of the most critical components of SHM to identify the existence, location and severity of damage so that effective preventive actions