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Laboratory modeling of hydraulic dredges and design of dredge carriage for laboratory facility
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
The deepening and maintenance of the world's ports and navigable waterways has been an integral part of the world economy for centuries. In recent years, cutterhead and draghead hydraulic suction dredges have performed a ...
A stochastic feasibility study of Texas ethanol production: analysis of Texas Legislature ethanol subsidy proposal
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
The recent resurgence of interest in ethanol production has prompted the Texas State Legislature to investigate the feasibility of ethanol production in Texas. The reasons for the increased interest in ethanol production ...
Specific grinding energy causing thermal damage in precision gear steels
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
This project is aimed at developing a better understanding of thermal damage caused by grinding of precision gear materials and also a model to predict the onset of burn in AISI 9310 gear steel. This study is concerned ...
Development of Nuclear Reactor remote Monitoring software (NRM) for the Star project
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
As a response to the needs of developing countries to meet their rapidly growing energy requirements, the Safe, Transportable, Autonomous Reactor (STAR) program originated. This concept relies on small, passively safe, and ...
Seasonal variation of upper-level mobile trough development upstream of the Pacific storm track
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate seasonal and interannual statistics of troughs associated with the Pacific storm track and quantify the influence of deformation on trough development upstream of the western ...
Evaluating biological control of fire ants using phorid flies: effects on competitive interactions
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Our first objective was to assess the host specificity of the parasitic phorid fly, Pseudacteon tricuspis Borgmeier, in the laboratory against two ant species native to the United States, Solenopsis geminata (F.) þ S. ...
Design of cooperative mobile robot system: a low-cost test-bed and an example application
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Implementation of cooperative robot systems in search, exploration, or delivery tasks can potentially provide advantages over a single robot system. For example, better performance, fault tolerance through agent redundancy, ...
Plumbing fixture patterns through audio sampling
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Pipe sizing criteria, and thus building water utility connections, are currently based upon a very small statistical sampling of plumbing fixtures performed in the late 1930's. This sampling became the basis for the Hunter ...
Genetic relationships of American alligator populations distributed across different ecological and geographic scales
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Although much work has been conducted on coastal populations of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), less is known about the population dynamics and genetic structure of alligator populations confined to ...
Geologic selection methodology for transportation corridor routing
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
A lack of planning techniques and processes on long, linear, cut and cover-tunneling route transportation systems has resulted because of the advancement of transportation systems into underground corridors. The proposed ...