Due to the inherent uncertainties in ground and groundwater conditions, tunnel projects often have to face potential risks of cost overrun or schedule delay. Risk analysis has become a required tool (by insurers, Federal ...

Cross-docking is an important transportation logistics strategy in supply chain management which reduces transportation costs, inventory holding costs, order-picking costs and response time. Careful planning is needed for ...

Construction Sustainability involves the processes, decisions, and actions during the construction phase of capital projects that enhance current and future environmental, social, and economic needs while considering project ...

Prime coats have been in use for many decades to help protect the base before the subsequent application of bituminous surface treatments. Prime coat is an application of a low viscosity binder onto the base to help protect ...

The research described here is part of a multi-university project on “Performance-based Design of New Masonry Structures.” Within the context of that project, the main objectives of this research was to study the inelastic ...

Current Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) procedures for evaluating coarse aggregate for portland cement concrete (PCC) have been in place for over 39 years. Item 421 in the TxDOT "Standard Specifications for ...

The wealth of publicly available hydrologic data from observation networks, satellite-based sensors, global-scale modeling efforts, and digitized paper maps provide an excellent base-line of information for understandi ...

This thesis compares actual and perceived travel times and presents a model for predicting traffic flows when there is a network disruption. The goal of this research is to demonstrate the necessity of accounting for ...

Monochloramine reduction in fixed-bed reactors (FBRs) was quantified using five types of granular activated carbon (GAC) and two background waters (Lake Austin water, LAW, and synthetic organic-free nutrient water, NW). ...