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Feasibility of Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) in Texas
(2015-12-17)
The U.S. economy is expected to double in size over the next 30 years. Truck and rail freight traffic is expected to increase by approximately 45 percent. Air freight is expected to triple in response to demand for the ...
Improving the Rainfall and Flood Frequency Analyses Using Stochastic Storm Transposition Method
(2015-12-14)
Reproduction and realization of historical rainfall events provides foundations for flood and rainfall frequency analyses and the advancement of meteorological studies. Stochastic storm transposition (SST) is a method for ...
MERGING RADAR-ONLY QPE AND RAIN GAUGE DATA VIA CONDITIONAL BIAS-PENALIZED OPTIMAL ESTIMATION
(2015-12-08)
A new technique for merging radar precipitation estimates and rain gauge data is developed and evaluated to improve multisensor quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE). Various types of linear and nonlinear techniques ...
A Unified SWCC-clay Mineralogy Based Framework For Predicting Swell Behavior Of Expansive Soils
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)
Expansive soils are spread over different climatic zones around the world with varying mineralogical content and microstructure, making the soil to absorb moisture between their mineral layers and therefore undergo volume ...
Effect Of Termite Gut Microbe TAV5 On Methane Production From Municipal Solid Waste Degradation
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)
Methane from anaerobic processes is being increasingly utilized as an alternative energy source in developed countries, via large projects that extract methane from landfills or wastewater treatment plants. Anaerobic ...
Development Of The Duplicate Shear Test For Asphalt Mixtures
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)
Permanent shear deformation is the main cause of rutting in asphalt concrete layers. Therefore, the determination of the shear properties of asphalt mixtures is helpful for predicting the rutting in asphalt pavement ...
Potential Applicability Of Stress Wave Velocity Method On Pavement Base Materials As A Non-destructive Testing Technique
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)
Aggregates derived from natural sources have been used traditionally as the pavement base materials. But in recent times, the extraction of these natural aggregates has be-come more labor intensive and costly due to resource ...
THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF UNSATURATED CLAYEY SOILS VIA THERMO/SUCTION-CONTROLLED RING SHEAR TESTING
(2015-12-08)
There is a lot of geotechnical infrastructure made of compacted soil, or resting on unsaturated ground, which involves a wide range of deformations. Calculation of foundation settlement, for instance, requires a good ...
Continuum-scale investigation of evaporation from bare soil under different boundary and initial conditions: An evaluation of nonequilibrium phase change
(Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2015-09-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Evaporation and condensation in bare soils govern water and energy fluxes between the land and atmosphere. Phase change between liquid water and water vapor is ...
Exploring the Effects of Atmospheric Forcings on Evaporation: Experimental Integration of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Shallow Subsurface
(MyJove Corporation, 2015-06-08)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Evaporation is directly influenced by the interactions between the atmosphere, land surface and soil subsurface. This work aims to experimentally study evaporation ...