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Filtering by: Committee Member Tadepalli, Prasad Degree Field Civil Engineering Resource Type Dissertation

Conceptual Representations within the Social and Material Contexts of an Engineering Workplace and Academic Environments

Creator:

Barner, Matthew S.

Abstract:

Situated cognition theory emphasizes the role that social and material contexts have on learning and knowledge application. Several studies of engineering workplace environments have noted differences between the social and material contexts of the workplace and those of undergraduate engineering education. No existing research has studied the social and material...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Seismic performance of a pile-supported container wharf structures in rockfill

Creator:

Kawamata, Yohsuke

Abstract:

Recently, the concept of performance based design has become popular for many types of structures, including port facilities under seismic loading. For the case of pile-supported wharves, the level of performance is generally estimated using the displacement capacity of the structure. Therefore, understanding soil-pile interaction is one of the most...

Resource Type:

Dissertation