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Development Of A True-cost Concept For Renewal Of Municipal Underground Pipeline Systems
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Asset management principles for underground pipeline infrastructure (UPI) are used by municipalities for efficient delivery of water, wastewater, and storm sewers. Due to budget constraints and limited resources, ...
Long-term Performance Of GFRP Reinforced Concrete Beams And Bars Subjected To Aggressive Environments
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)
The use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars in reinforced concrete (RC) structures has emerged as an alternative to traditional steel reinforcement environments and other applications where steel has shown greater ...
Impact Of Transit-oriented Infrastructure Investments on Property Valuations
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The population explosion of the second half of the last century brought about increased human activity. Much of the attendant increased access to activities has been facilitated by the incredible technological advances in ...
Effect Of Pavement Type On Fuel Consumption In City Driving
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Vehicular fuel consumption and emissions are two increasingly important measures of effectiveness of sustainable transportation systems, particularly considering that mobile sources in the U.S. account for the largest ...
Flexural Behavior Of Steel Fiber Reinforced Prestressed Concrete Beams And Double Punch Test For Fiber Reinforced Concrete
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)
Steel fibers have widely been used in the past to reinforce brittle materials in many nonstructural applications such as pavement, tunneling lining, etc. On the basis of numerous previous studies, ACI 318-11 [2011] has ...
Shear Behavior Of Steel Fiber Reinforced Prestressed Concrete Beams Without Shear Reinforcement
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The ACI 318-08 building code allows to use the steel fiber reinforcement as alternative shear reinforcement with satisfying certain criteria when a beam is required minimum shear reinforcement. However, this provision ...
Dynamic Bus Lane
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)
This dissertation documents the research conducted to investigate the feasibility of implementing a "Dynamic Bus Lane" (DBL) system on Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, and to determine the particular conditions when the ...
Investigation Of Co-pyrolysis Between Sargassum Macroalgae And Polystyrene
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)
Biomass is one source of renewable energy which helps minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, specifically carbon dioxide (CO2), since biomass utilizes CO2 via photosynthesis. Various conversion processes are applied to ...
Fluorinated And Fluorocarbon Coating Of TiO₂ By Pulsed Plasma Processing: Improved Photocatalytic Oxidation Of Gaseous M-Xylene And Mercury
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is a preferred catalyst for photocatalytic oxidation of many air pollutants. In an effort to enhance its photocatalytic activity, TiO₂ was modified by pulsed plasma treatment. In this work, TiO₂ ...