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Emergency response to environmental incidents on the Texas-Mexico border
(2004-12)
Emergency response to any large scale environmental incidents on the Texas - Mexico will not be easy. Any large scale incident that crosses jurisdictional boundaries, including the international boundary, may require joint ...
International project risk assessment
(2005)
International construction projects are managed most effectively by planning for
and addressing the risks that occur to all participants across the project’s entire life cycle.
The first step in this process is the ...
Site-specific comparisons of random vibration theory-based and traditional seismic site response analysis
(2006)
Seismic site response analysis is used to assess the effect of site-specific soil
conditions on expected earthquake ground motions. For this purpose, input earthquake
rock motions are propagated through a site-specific ...
A methodology for the environmental justice assessment of toll road projects
(2006)
Environmental Justice (EJ) legislation and regulation are designed to protect the
health and welfare of specific populations. Although the importance of environmentally
just transportation projects is widely recognized, ...
Structural reliability of offshore wind turbines
(2008-08)
Statistical extrapolation is required to predict extreme loads, associated with a target return period, for offshore wind turbines. In statistical extrapolation, “short-term" distributions of the load random variable(s) ...
Stochastic dynamic traffic assignment for intermodal transportation networks with consistent information supply strategies
(2001-08)
Private car use continues to increase in most urban areas around the world,
exacerbating various associated problems such as traffic congestion, environmental
degradation and high fuel consumption. With the dispersion ...
Land use forecasting in regional air quality modeling
(2007-05)
When estimating the impacts of air pollutant control measures on future air
quality, it is typically presumed that land covers remain constant. However, changes in
land cover can have an impact on air pollutant ...
Map to map: converting a NEXRAD rainfall map into a flood inundation map
(2005)
The spatial nature of flood hazards makes GIS a proper means to address
and integrate flood damage assessment components. Geography, relational
databases, and engineering models are proposed as central elements to develop ...
Composite structural members for short span highway bridges
(2002)
This research focused on the development of a structural system
composed of a reinforced concrete (RC) deck and fiber reinforced plastic
(FRP) girders and arches. The deck and the girders were designed to carry
the load ...
Dynamic properties of ash-flow tuffs
(2008-05)
Ash-flow tuff (ignimbrite) is a general term indicating consolidated deposits of volcanic ash flow; a flow of a mixture of gas and pyroclastic materials as products of explosive volcano eruptions (Smith, 1960). Two different ...