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  • Scale effects on reinforced concrete beams strengthened for shear with discrete externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer U-wraps

    Creator:
    Dawson, Matthew Ryan
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    Current ACI design provisions for shear in reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) U-wraps may not adequately account for the effect of scale. This paper describes tests of 6 geometrically scaled beams to identify possible scale effects of such beams. Results indicated that effective...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF Matthew Ryan Dawson for the degree of Master of Science in Civil Engineering

  • Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam C.
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    Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: Robert Paasch Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of

  • Mechanical design under changing customer requirements case study : BugID

    Creator:
    Fagan, Chris R.
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    Customer requirements and engineering specifications will influence the direction of the design in any product, so it is crucial to make the requirements as stable as possible so quality designs can be produced on time within a budget. It would be optimal for requirements and specifications to remain constant but...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Abstract approved: _______________________________________ Robert K. Paasch Customer requirements and

  • Explanations and Processes to Enable Humans to Assess AI with Respect to Manipulable Properties

    Creator:
    Dodge, Jonathan E.
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    Assessing AI systems is difficult. Humans rely on AI systems in increasing ways, both visible and invisible, meaning a variety of stakeholders need a variety of assessment tools (e.g., a professional auditor, a developer, and an end user all have different needs). We posit that it is possible to provide...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jonathan E

  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
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    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
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    Dissertation
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  • Predicting Aerodynamic Loads on Highly Flexible Membrane Wings

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Trenton James
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    Through passive adaptation to incidental flow, flexible aerodynamic surfaces exploit effects of increased lift, delayed stall and disturbance rejection. Wings of birds, bats, and insects exhibit these passive effects, and at the same time through the use of structural state feedback sensed from the loads on the wing, active control...
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    Dissertation
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    Roberto Albertani, and committee members Robert Paasch and Belinda Batten. Also invaluable, were the

  • Visual object discovery and understanding

    Creator:
    Yuan, Jialin
    Abstract:
    Learning to recognize objects is a fundamental and essential step in human perception and understanding of the world. Accordingly, research of object discovery across diverse modalities plays a pivotal role in the context of computer vision. This field not only contributes significantly to enhancing our understanding of visual information but...
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    Dissertation
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    information but also offers a plethora of potential applications, like augmented reality, e-commerce, and

  • New learning modes for sequential decision making

    Creator:
    Judah, Kshitij
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    This thesis considers the problem in which a teacher is interested in teaching action policies to computer agents for sequential decision making. The vast majority of policy learning algorithms o er teachers little flexibility in how policies are taught. In particular, one of two learning modes is typically considered: 1)...
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    Dissertation

  • Computing Resource Usage as a Factor of Student Success

    Creator:
    Moissinac, Béatrice
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    Learning Analytics and other branches of Educational Research such as Computing Education Research (CER) implicitly assume that students, especially college students, have no barriers to access learning platforms or software packages. This assumption may be attributed to such pervasive beliefs such as "everyone has a device", or "everyone can access...
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    Dissertation
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  • Machine learning for improving the quality of citizen science data

    Creator:
    Yu, Jun
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    Citizen Science is a paradigm in which volunteers from the general public participate in scientific studies, often by performing data collection. This paradigm is especially useful if the scope of the study is too broad to be performed by a limited number of trained scientists. Although citizen scientists can contribute...
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    Dissertation
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