Free radicals play a critical role in the formation of tropospheric air pollution, but current condensed chemical mechanisms used in gridded photochemical models under-predict total radical concentrations. This dissertation ...

Currently, there are several hundred older metal truss bridges that remain in vehicular service in the state of Texas, many in the range of 70 to over 100 years in age. A number of these bridges are of historical interest ...

One of the key elements for managing transportation infrastructure is to accurately capture and predict the performance of the facility through well established deterioration models. A sound deterioration model should ...

Trapezoidal steel box girders are becoming increasingly popular as a bridge system due to their torsional efficiency and aesthetic appearance. These bridge systems utilize one or more trapezoidal steel girders with a ...

This dissertation seeks to contribute to the area of activity-based travel- demand modeling by examining the impacts of inter-personal interactions within a household on the daily activity participation choices of individuals. ...

The surface coating industry is facing increasingly stringent environmental regulations that require the control of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants. Biofiltration is an attractive alternative ...

Environmental flows (e.g. river and atmospheric flows) governed by the shallow water equations (SWE) are usually dominated by the advective mechanism over multiple time-scales. The combination of time dependency and nonlinear ...

For organizations such as state departments of transportation, other public agencies, or private companies, adopting a new approach to procure services for delivery of construction projects requires significant organizational ...

Damage from abnormal loading such as explosion, bombing, and sudden external impacts on elements of a structure can range from a loss of individual elements to total collapse. Progressive collapse has been a concern for ...