Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Damnjanovic, Ivan"
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Buxkemper, Matthew (2022-12-08)The Department of the Air Force (DAF) devotes significant funding and resources to maintain, repair, and construct facilities to preserve and improve its power projection platforms. A service-wide team of engineers, ...
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Abu Khalifa, Yousef Abdalla (2023-05-03)This thesis presents a methodology for creating and solving of a synthetic combined electric and natural gas transmission network, along with representative benchmark results. The systems do not contain actual, confidential ...
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Kim, Yang Woo (2022-04-22)Many large and small companies have studied and applied autonomous driving systems to the real world. However, much of it is still lacking. In fact, it is easy to find news of accidents of vehicles with autonomous driving ...
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Deshpande, Vighnesh Prakash (2009-05-15)A performance model and a reliability-based optimization model for flexible pavements that accounts for the effects of rehabilitation actions are developed. The developed performance model can be effectively implemented ...
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White, Robert Joseph (2014-05-01)This study examines a first look at the implementation of Social Impact Bonds (SIB) for sustainability projects by comparing two cases. The cases are described using System Dynamic (SD) modeling to portray the feedback ...
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Roco, Craig E. (2010-01-16)This record of study presents the findings of industry research projects performed during a one-year doctoral internship with the Austin Rail Group of HNTB Corporation. Four main internship objectives were established that ...
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Rasoulkhani, Kambiz (2019-11-13)Urban water infrastructure systems are exposed to the impacts of various chronic and acute stressors such as climate change, population growth/decline, aging infrastructure, and extreme events (e.g., natural disasters). ...
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Soltanpour, Yasser (2017-08-16)Several empirical or analytical/semi-analytical simulation models have been developed to assess the Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) of an oil or gas formation for a short or long term of production. Furthermore, providing ...
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Avaragolla Puravarga Mathada, Akhil (2020-04-24)Despite having enough resources, most development projects fail to finish before schedule and within budget. We hypothesize that a possible reason for project failure could be a capability trap. Capability on a construction ...
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Abula, Baiherula (2021-04-09)Transportation infrastructure is subject to many disruptive events, and the economic, social, or environmental consequences of these disruptions on these systems are becoming increasingly dire. Due to the recent changes ...
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Kim, Amy A (2014-05-01)Implementation of energy service projects continue to increase as building owners are faced with higher utility bills, rigorous environmental regulations, and shrinking capital allocation for such projects. Different ...
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Bae, Deog Sang (2017-11-02)Local governments have many different options to secure financing for infrastructure projects, including using Tax-increment financing (TIF) bonds. The key feature of this type of bond is the repayment source: defined as ...
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Alikhani, Hamed (2023-05-10)State Highway Agencies (SHAs) collect a significant amount of digital data on highway projects during different project phases, including bid tabulations and Daily Work Reports (DWRs). However, SHAs do not fully take ...
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Kermanshachi, Sharareh (2016-08-04)This study identifies key construction cost and schedule performance determinants related to project general characteristics, specific features, and construction best practices for heavy industrial projects. This research ...
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Shelton, Debora Brooke (2011-02-22)Performance-based Maintenance Contracts (PBMCs) are increasingly being used for roadway maintenance as an alternative to method-based specifications. However, this technique is still relatively new and several issues ...
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Ajith, Adithya (2018-04-27)Road safety has always been a globally growing concern and speeding is one of the major factors that causes road crashes. Road geometry is an important factor that influence speeding and thus the road safety. The purpose ...
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Nageeb, Meena (2012-07-16)This research endeavor investigated the possibility to combine the visual advantages of both graphical schedule visualization methods, the Linked Gantt Charts (LGC) and Flowline graphs (FLG), derived from the activity-based ...
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Rashed, Amir (2016-11-08)Performance management is increasingly emphasized at the state and national levels. This is evident in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and performance targets set by individual state Departments ...
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Duong, Tam NM (2015-12-09)Previous studies have shown that sample preparation techniques used to reconstruct specimens for granular materials can have substantial influence on theirs mechanistic behavior. Since the Distinct Element Method (DEM) ...
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Dao, Bac Phuong (2016-08-05)Project complexity is a term that is not well understood in the construction industry in relation to academia and practice. Project complexity often refers to a measurement of the number of project elements and interactions ...