Browsing by Author "Briaud, Jean-Louis"
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Bernhardt, Michelle Lee (2011-02-22)The United States contains an estimated 100,000 miles (160000 km) of levees in which erosion related issues are the top priorities. Proper documentation of overtopping induced erosion is a complicated issue involving the ...
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Udphuay, Suwimon (2010-01-14)Pointe du Hoc overlooking the English Channel in Normandy, France was host to one of the most important military engagements of World War II. While the site is a valuable historic cultural resource, it is vulnerable to ...
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Park, Jun Kyung (2012-10-19)Excavation activities like open cutting and tunneling work may cause ground movements. Many of these activities are performed in urban areas where many structures and facilities already exist. These activities are close ...
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Kim, Nak-Kyung (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)A beam-column method for tieback walls or anchored walls was developed and tested. An instrumented full scale tieback wall in sand was constructed at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Site located on the Texas A&M ...
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Seo, Jeong Bok (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)A number of recently constructed bridge approach slabs using an articulation at mid span and the wide flange terminal anchorage system have experienced settlement at their expansion joints. This problem is more commonly ...
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Nicks, Jennifer Elizabeth (2011-02-22)The bump at the end of the railway bridge is a result of differential movement between the bridge deck and the approach embankment. The movement can have the form of a bump or a dip. Either defect in the track geometry ...
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Yeh, Po Hung (2010-10-12)A set of large-scale laboratory experiments were conducted to study channel meander migration. Factors affecting the migration of banklines, including the ratio of curvature to channel width, bend angle, and the Froude ...
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Yousefpour, Negin (2013-08-08)This study presents different aspects on the use of deterministic methods including Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), and linear and nonlinear regression, as well as probabilistic methods including Bayesian inference and ...
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Zhang, Xiong (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The coupled and uncoupled consolidation theories for saturated-unsaturated soils have been discussed. A new method for constructing the constitutive surfaces for saturated-unsaturated soils has been proposed. The consolidation ...
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Israel Devadason, Benjamin Praisy (2009-05-15)Bridge scour, which is the removal of bed materials from near the bridge foundations, is observed to be the most predominant cause of bridge failures in the United States. Scour in cohesive soils is greatly different from ...
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Saez Barrios, Deeyvid 1980- (2012-12-05)The use of Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall structures has increased dramatically in recent years. Traffic barriers are frequently placed on top of the MSE wall to resist vehicular impact loads. The barrier systems ...
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Rutherford, Cassandra Janel (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Deep mixing (DM) is the modification of in situ soil to increase strength, control deformation, and reduce permeability. Multiaxis augers and mixing paddles are used to construct overlapping columns strengthened by mixing ...
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Kim, Kang (2010-01-16)Millions of square feet of mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall are constructed annually in the United States. When used in highway fill applications in conjunction with bridges, these MSE walls are typically ...
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Lim, Seok Gyu (2012-07-16)Anti ram perimeter barriers are part of the protection of important facilities such as power plants, air ports and embassies against unrestricted vehicle access. Many different systems can be used to achieve the containment ...
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Patil, Prashant Madhukar (2019-04-05)Low workability and high water content in soil cause many problems in construction industry. The best way to deal with this is to replace the existing soil by good quality soil which may not be feasible every time due to ...
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Arjwech, Rungroj (2012-02-14)Unknown bridge foundations pose a significant safety risk due to stream scour and erosion. Records from older structures may be non-existent, incomplete, or incorrect. Nondestructive and inexpensive geophysical methods ...
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Akrouch, Ghassan (2014-04-10)Air pollution is one of the main environmental problems mankind faces in the 21^(st) century caused by to the extensive use of fossil fuels. One of the opportunities to overcome this problem is to develop new technologies ...
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Bernhardt, Michelle Lee (2013-08-29)Simple shear testing is used to study a number of practical geotechnical problems including: soil conditions directly below a loaded surface, adjacent to a driven pile shaft, soils deposited on a slightly inclined slope, ...
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Asadollahipajouh, Mojdeh (2015-12-16)Groups of in-line piles connected by beams are being used to contain errant vehicles for perimeter protection of infrastructures. Moreover, piles can be used as roadside safety devices resisting against impact loading. The ...
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Oh, Seung Jae (2011-02-22)The bridge scour depths in cohesive soil have been predicted using the scour equations developed for cohesionless soils due to scarce of studies about cohesive soil. The scour depths predicted by the conventional methods ...