Browsing by Author "Damnjanovic, Ivan"
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Aslan, Veysel (2012-10-19)When society fails to effectively integrate natural and constructed environments, one of the cataclysmic byproducts of this disconnect is an increased risk of natural disasters. On top of the devastation that is the aftermath ...
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Puls, Eric Mark (2013-08-08)In an inevitably occurring process, bridges possessing historic, artistic, and engineering significance deteriorate and must be maintained and rehabilitated in order to be kept in service. Ideally, all potentially significant ...
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Ramesh, Sushanth (2011-02-22)Availability of historical unit cost data is an important factor in developing accurate project cost estimates. State highway agencies (SHAs) collect data on historical bids and/or production rates, crew sizes and mixes, ...
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Pradeep Kumar, Pranav (2022-05-18)The remaining fatigue-life of existing steel bridge structures is an unresolved thorny issue. Current code-based fatigue rules for new structure design were established on conservative principles that are intended to deliver ...
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Gunby, Molly Gaynell (2011-02-22)Identifying the unique ways in which a project can add value to an owner’s organization is an essential part of project delivery. Every project has defined requirements, such as budget, schedule and engineering specifications ...
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Olarte, Walter E. (2021-04-14)Project execution cost and safety have been traditionally approached as independent areas of study. The argument for a separate treatment is that the most effective way to improve safety is to add safety barriers, resulting ...
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Tohidi Vahdat, Amin (2013-11-22)International projects within the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) sector have increased both in number and in revenue during the past two decades. AEC companies seek projects outside of their home country at ...
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Investigating the Persuasiveness of Forensic Information Models for Jurors in Construction Disputes Soltani, Zohreh (2018-11-06)Effective communication has always been challenging in the process of resolving disputes. The seriousness of this difficulty is exacerbated when a jury with little or no knowledge of construction engages in dispute resolution ...
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Bhattacharjee, Suchayita S. (2009-05-15)The thesis addresses the problems faced by contractors during the recovery and rebuilding process after hurricanes that struck the southeast region of the United States in 2004-2005 hurricane seasons. It also deals with ...
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Mao, Zhuting (2012-10-19)Economic Input Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) provides economic transactions, environmental emissions, and energy use throughout a product's life cycle based on a dollar amount of the product. A custom EIO-LCA model ...
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Sircar, Jyotirmoy (2009-05-15)It is important to be able to quantify potential seismic damage to structures and communicate risk in a comprehendible way to all stakeholders. The risks involved with damage to constructed facilities due to catastrophic ...
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Serrano Diaz, Juan Sebastian (2021-08-02)The offshore oil and gas industry is a highly fragmented industry where contractors execute most everyday activities in all its phases. These contractors comprise around 80% of the personnel performing project activities ...
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Cox, Christopher Owen (2020-09-15)In the oil and gas industry, it has become common to note that projects do not meet their objectives between 50 and 75% of the time, leading to adverse implications on corporate value. The Oil and Gas Authority of the ...
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Damnjanovic, Ivan; Talebpour, Alireza (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 6/14/2022)A vehicular warning system includes a plurality of input devices. A computing unit is electrically coupled to the input system. An input preprocessing classifies signals received from the plurality of input devices into ...
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Ahmed, Jubair (2011-02-22)Performance-based contracting (PBC) for roadway maintenance is relatively new among various alternative contracting options available at present and is increasingly drawing more attention from state Departments of ...
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Nejat, Ali (2012-10-19)Natural disasters result in loss of lives, damage to built facilities, and interruption of businesses. The losses are not instantaneous rather they continue to occur until the community is restored to a functional ...
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Duong, Tam Nguyen Minh (2019-08-07)Simulation of soil behaviors is always a challenge for engineers due to the non-homogeneous discontinuous nature of the materials. Unlike Finite Element Method (FEM) which follows the continuum approach, Discrete Element ...
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Seyedolshohadaie, Seyed Reza (2012-10-19)The goal of this dissertation research is to model risk in delivery, operation and maintenance phases of infrastructure asset management. More specifically, the two main objectives of this research are to quantify and ...
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Kim, Seok (2012-02-14)This dissertation formulates and develops models and solution approaches for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging station installation. The models are formulated in the form of bilevel programming and stochastic programming ...
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Demirhan, Cosar Doga (2020-07-01)21st century energy production, conversion, and delivery systems are expected to succeed in multiple goals such as meeting the increasing energy demand, being economically feasible, being less carbon-intensive, increasing ...