There are two focal points of this thesis: the acoustics of seagrass and the acoustical properties of encapsulated bubbles for underwater noise abatement. The acoustical properties of seagrass have applications in mine ...

Pretensioned concrete girders are currently fabricated using 0.5- or 0.6-in. diameter prestressing strands. In recent years, however, it has become of interest to employ larger-diameter 0.7-in. diameter strands to reduce ...

We have recently developed and tested a new computational method for experiment prototyping at the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). The method significantly reduces neutronic computation time while maintaining computational ...

Increasing municipal and regional water demands have reduced freshwater inflows to the Nueces Delta. These flow reductions impair the marsh ecosystem’s functionality. As part of a United States Army Corps of Engineers ...

This report aims to provide an understanding of how the mobile CPU designs have evolved and its influence on end-user satisfaction. To that end, a quantitative performance analysis is conducted across ten cutting-edge ...

This report presents a survey of the state-of-the-art methods for building recommendation systems. The report mainly concentrates on systems that use the available side information in addition to a fraction of known affinity ...

This thesis presents the investigation towards increasing the understanding of the effect of polycarboxylate (PCE) High-Range Water-Reducers (HRWRs) on the performance of concrete mixtures, with a special focus on concrete ...

Baroclinicity in oceans may necessitate the use of 3D shallow water (SW) models for accurate description of physics. Particularly for baroclinic flows near coastal areas where frequent wetting and drying occurs due to tides ...

The long-term performance of the materials that create the building envelope is essential to the long-term durability of buildings and structures. This thesis summarizes published literature on various cladding and ...

Accurately determining one’s location has long been a persistent problem in navigation and has reappeared in recent years in the field of mobile computing. The ability to determine a device’s location indoors is needed for ...