Browsing Theses--Civil Engineering by Title
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PREDICTING PRODUCTION RATES IN THE WISCONSIN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY USING COMPUTER TOOLS
(2016-10-14)Poor estimates of project contract completion time can produce dire consequences. Awarding too much time to complete a project creates conditions where contractors may be encouraged to perform work less aggressively, while ... -
Probabilistic Streamflow Forecasts to Advance Flood Preparedness: Statistical Applications and User Perspectives
(2021-05)Disaster planning has historically allocated minimal effort and finances toward advanced preparedness; however, evidence supports reduced vulnerability to flood events through appropriate early actions, saving lives and ... -
Qualitative Analysis of Lost Labor Productivity in Electrical Construction from the Perspective of Field Personnel
(2018-05-31)Executive Summary The stagnant production practices, the decline in experienced workers, and the steep economical labor cost has challenged the construction industry to improve labor production practices. This research ... -
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMIDACLOPRID IN ENVIRONMENTAL WATER MATRICES BY SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
(2023)Neonicotinoids are synthetic pesticides commonly employed in agricultural fields to combat pests. Due to their high water solubility and persistence, they can be transported via percolating water or runoff into groundwater ... -
Rapid Short and Medium Span Bridge Construction Using Innovative Precast Structural Systems
(2010-12-15)The direct costs of bridge construction, such as materials, labor, and equipment are all well known. Recently however the indirect costs such as the cost of traffic disruptions, and construction safety are beginning to ... -
Reaching a Consensus Among Construction Stakeholders: Defining Success and Benchmarking Performance
(2021-12)Executive Summary Despite significant and increasing figures for expenditure and employment which are demonstrative of a successful and growing economic sector, construction still has an industrial struggle with the precise ... -
Recognition Distance and Elongation Ratio for Elongated Horizontal Pavement Markings: A Simulator Study
(2014-05-18)All factors being equal, pavement marking signs are more likely to be detected by drivers than post-mounted signs. Several international manuals/guidelines explicitly state that elongation improves the legibility distance ... -
Reducing Stakeholder Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Southern Peru Using Statistically-Based Prediction and Risk Management Tools
(2018-05-31)Located at a complex topographic, climatic, and hydrologic crossroads, southern Peru is a semi-arid region that exhibits high spatiotemporal variability in precipitation. The economic viability of the region hinges on this ... -
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 ...