Reliable engineering productivity measurement is a critical element of predictable project performance and continuous improvement. Despite the fact that engineering costs have risen to levels approaching 20 percent of total ...

Research conducted by the Construction Industry Institute (CII) shows that adequate pre-project planning benefits project in the areas of cost, schedule, and operational characteristics. Pre-project planning is the project ...

The purpose of this study is to assist TxDOT engineers in the field of traffic control planning. This is to be done via the creation of a Geographic Information System (GIS) based tool. By bringing together information ...

Evaluation of the effect of particle cementation on the stiffness of uniform sand was carried out by measuring compression wave velocities (VP) and shear wave velocities (VS) on both clean and artificially cemented specimens. ...

The objective of the research program was to develop reliable pattern recognition and neural network analysis methods to determine the failure mechanism signatures in fiber reinforced plastic structures from acoustic ...

Efficient temporal resolution and spatial grids are important in simulation of the inflow turbulence for wind turbine loads analyses. There have not been many published studies that address optimal space-time resolution ...

A series of resonant column and torsional shear (RCTS) and large scale resonant column (LSRC) tests were performed to investigate the dynamic properties (shear modulus and material damping ratio) of municipal solid waste ...

Structural reliability techniques can be employed to evaluate the fatigue performance of fracture-critical members in steel bridges. In this dissertation, two fatigue reliability formulations that can be applied for most ...

Corrosion presents one of the greatest threats to the durability of reinforced concrete structures, yet it is also one of the least understood components of the design process for most engineers. The nation's infrastructure ...

Transportation equilibrium problems with deterministic forecasts of O-D demand yield unsatisfactory results. Accurate estimation of transportation network performance helps in improving network resiliency and reducing ...