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SAFETY EVALUATION OF TWO-LANE TO FOUR-LANE CONVERSIONS IN WISCONSIN
(2014-05-18)For this study, 12 two-lane to four-lane conversions constructed in Wisconsin within the last decade were analyzed. Five years of before crash data and a range of one to five years of after crash data (depending on the ... -
THE SAFETY IMPACTS OF INCREASING THE SPEED LIMIT TO 70 MPH IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
(2016-09-30)The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined in May 2014 that the social and economic burden of vehicle crashes in 2010 cost the United States $836 billion dollars (1). ... -
Sensor Based Real-Time Scheduling in Thermally Constrained Uniprocessor Systems
(2010-12-15)Due to increasing power densities, thermal management is becoming an important issue in real-time systems. In particular, without thermal-aware scheduling, execution of tasks in a real-time application may increase the ... -
Staged Concrete Bridge Deck Pours Adjacent to Live Traffic
(2018-01-03)Highway bridges are some of the most common and frequently used structures in today’s built environment, but they are also some of the most heavily demanded. Decades of heavy traffic loading and harsh environmental ... -
The State of Practice of Prefabrication
(2014-05-18)In today?s construction industry, electrical contractors must think about adopting non-conventional construction methods such as prefab in order to improve their performance and to face the continuous challenges they ... -
STATIC AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF MONOPILES FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES
(2011-12-15)Current design recommendations for monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines were designed and tested for offshore oil and gas structures. Large-diameter (3.5 to 7 m) monopiles, like the ones used for offshore wind ... -
STEREO IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WAVE MEASUREMENT: APPLICATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
(2014-08-24)Stereo imaging is used to measure surface waves in two different experimental setups. First, stereo imaging is used remotely measure waves interacting with three distinct ice types: brash, frazil, and pancake. Along-shore ... -
Stochastic Calibration of Automated Vehicle Car-following Control: An Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach
(2021-08)This research presents a stochastic calibration method based on Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) to calibrate the parameters of two well-known adaptive cruise control (ACC) models: the linear controller and Model ... -
SUBSTRUCTURAL ISOLATION METHOD FOR DAMAGE DETECTION IN CIVIL STRUCTURES
(2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the process of evaluating a structure with the use of sensors to provide an accurate representation of its current condition. Damage is identified, located, and quantified in order ... -
Sustainable Retrofits in Existing Buildings Analysis of Stakeholder Types, Requirements, and Perceptions in Decision Making, using the House of Quality
(2012-05-20)There are multiple reasons why existing building stakeholders are concerned with increasing the sustainability of their buildings from social, environmental, economic, and technical perspectives. In most cases, these ... -
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies for Thailand
(2018-01-03)Wastewater consists of valuable resources that could be recovered or reused. Still it is under threat because of ineffective wastewater management and systems. In Thailand, wastewater produced can be treated less than ... -
Sustaining Central Sands Water Resources
(2014-05)This document aims to provide a common framework for scientists to communicate within and across disciplines regarding future water resource management throughout the Central Sands of Wisconsin. It reviews interdisciplinary ... -
TECHNICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF SLUDGE THICKENING PROCESSES: A COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL THICKENING AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT CENTRIFUGAL THICKENING TECHNOLOGIES
(2014-08-24)As of today, several technologies are available for thickening waste activated sludge. Presently gravity belt thickeners (GBTs) tend to be the most commonly installed for waste activated sludge thickening applications ... -
THERMAL RESISTIVITY DRY-OUT CURVES FOR THIRTEEN SANDY SOILS
(2014-01)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this study was to identify which physical properties impact the thermal resistivity dry-out curve (TRDC) of natural sandy soils. The TRDC is a relationship between soil thermal resistivity ... -
Toroidal Mode Computation in Real Time Using Field- Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
(2010-12-15)This report documents a project to create an FPGA-based hardware implementation of a matrix-vector multiplication procedure specifically designed for a particular physics experimentation system. This system requires that ... -
TRAVEL SPEED EFFECTS OF 70 MPH SPEED LIMIT CHANGE
(2018)An important purpose of speed limits is to improve traffic safety by reducing the risks imposed by the speed choices of drivers. This purpose is achieved in two ways. On one hand, by setting an upper bound, speed limits ... -
Two-Dimensional Progressive Collapse Analysis on Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures Based on the Lumped Damaged-Plasticity Method
(2018-01-03)Progressive collapse, a chain reaction or propagation of failures following damage to a relatively small portion of a structure, has drawn attention from researchers and the public because it leads to severe loss of life ... -
Using Machines to Improve Human Saliency Detection
(2010-12-15)Humans are adept at identifying informative regions in individual images, but it is a slow and often tedious task to identify the salient parts of every image in a large corpus. A machine, on the other hand, can sift ...