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  • Development of a guideline for estimating tsunami forces on bridge superstructures

    Creator:
    Boon-intra, Sutaporn
    Abstract:
    Infrastructures along the Oregon Coast are vulnerable to seismic events in the Cascadia Subduction Zone that could generate large tsunamis. Bridges along the coast are an important part of the transportation and lifeline system in the area. The major damages on these bridges due to earthquake and/or tsunami would result...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Boon-intra for the degree of Master of Science in Civil Engineering presented on November 30, 2010

  • GPU-Based Fluid-Structure Interaction using Immersed Boundary Methods

    Creator:
    Minar, Christopher
    Abstract:
    Engineering applications often require fast, accurate solutions of fluid flow around freely moving bodies. The massive parallelism enabled by graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture enables high performance, offering a promising alternative to traditional solver acceleration via multicore central processing units (CPU). However, fully harnessing GPU parallelism requires specialized algorithms and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    on a CPU. In addition to non-Poisson kernels being a low overall portion of the run time, the effect

  • Lasers in the Sky : Distributed Temperature Sensing and a Micro-Meteorological Approach to Quantifying Evapotranspiration

    Creator:
    Predosa, Robert
    Abstract:
    Lower atmospheric flux measurements are a difficult subset of atmospheric data to accurately collect. The interplay of cost, precision, specialty, resolution and repeatability compound an already difficult experimental problem. In response to this, a new, novel instrumentation approach to measuring within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is introduced. The combination...
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    Masters Thesis
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    information is low accuracy and provides little more than a gross estimation of the amount of water in the

  • Depth estimation and frontal imaging via X-band marine radar

    Creator:
    Honegger, David Andrew
    Abstract:
    This dissertation focuses on two core aspects of remote sensing: (a) interpretation of the remotely sensed data to identify and characterize sea surface features of interest, and (b) the quantitative analysis of previously characterized features to produce robust estimates of geophysical variables. Specifically, these aspects are addressed in the context...
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    Dissertation
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    these features, including internal gravity waves and convergent surface fronts, has been a boon for