Today’s metropolitan areas see changes in populations and land development occurring at faster rates than transportation planning can be updated. This dissertation explores the use of a new dataset from the location-based ...

Double-angle web shear connections are commonly used in steel gravity framing, and they are usually idealized as pinned connections during analysis. The nonlinear behavior of these connections has been studied during the ...

Robust self-healing concrete, which requires less maintenance and repair throughout its service life than ordinary concrete, can be used for the development of sustainable infrastructure. Li and Herbert stated that a true ...

Expansive clays are very abundant across the central United States in general and in the state of Texas in particular damages induced by expansive clays have been reported to reach several billions of dollars per year. ...

Alternative delivery methods for transportation infrastructure projects, besides the traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) approach, have been implemented by private and public sectors since the last decades. The Texas ...

Nonlinear site response analyses are generally preferred over equivalent linear analyses for soft soil sites subjected to high-intensity input ground motions. However, both nonlinear and equivalent linear analyses often ...

Residential buildings in the United States are responsible for the consumption of 38% of electricity, and for much of the fluctuations in the power demands on the electric grid, particularly in hot climates. Residential ...

The Flying Wing Anchor (patent pending) is a new anchor concept that combines the features of dynamically penetrating anchors, drag embedment anchors, and plate anchors. To study and optimize the behavior of the new anchor, ...

Debris flows contain inhomogeneous distributions of solids within a liquid. By considering a mixture of solid and liquid forming debris flows as a non-Newtonian continuous liquid, the viscosity term for rheological models ...

The study of the dynamic properties of two specific kinds of granular soils is performed using torsional resonant column testing. The sandy soils are: (1) liquefiable sand from Christchurch, New Zealand, and (2) calcareous ...