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  • Wood materials and shearwalls of older light-frame residential structures

    Creator:
    Carroll, Cameron T.
    Abstract:
    Light-frame construction practices and materials have changed greatly over the past 100 years. Contemporary research has focused on modern construction; thus, we know a great deal about the behavior of modern lightframe buildings under lateral forces. However, there are many light-frame buildings that were built prior to the introduction of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    embedment test setup where L = Length (in), T = Thickness (in), and W = Width (in)…………………………….. 186 D.5

  • Wind induced torsional fatigue behavior of truss bridge verticals

    Creator:
    Keller, Philipp
    Abstract:
    The Astoria-Megler Bridge is a 6.6 kilometer (4.1 mile) long bridge, connecting Oregon and Washington on US 101, with a continuous steel truss main span of 376 m (1232 ft). It is the second longest main span bridge of this type in the world. Due to vortex shedding, some of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Dr. Thomas Miller, Dr. Michael Scott and Dr. Andrew Meigs, for their thoughtful questions, comments

  • Wheeled Mobility Devices Performance and Passive Securement Systems

    Creator:
    Mather, Andrea
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    Wheeled mobility devices (WhMD) pose unique safety risks to users while riding public transportation. Unsecured or improperly secured WhMDs create safety concerns for other transit riders and operators. Tests using accelerometers and visual observations were conducted to understand how WhMD orientation and securement in articulated buses, streetcars, and light rail...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the United States grew by over 37% (Miller, 2015). In 2014, 10.8 billion trips were completed using

  • Wave-current interaction induced by standing long waves in the surf zone

    Creator:
    Phaksopa, Jitraporn
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    This dissertation has focused on the charateristics of bubbles generated by breaking waves and the feedback of wave-current interaction on the forcing mechanism of low frequency wave especially basin seiching wave. For the first study, Optical image capture observations of breaking waves in a laboratory surf zone are presented. The...
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    Dissertation

  • Wave Resource Assessments: Spacio-Temporal Effect of Wave Energy Converter Scale and Blue Economy Opportunities

    Creator:
    Dunkle, Gabrielle R.
    Abstract:
    Wave energy has the potential to power large and small factions of economies around the world alike. Current methods for determining the amount of wave energy resource available to wave energy converter (WEC) devices entail capturing the look of the sea state at large by presenting characteristic wave heights, periods,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ]. Small scale 2 WECs (operating on the scale of a few 100 W to a few 1000s kW) on the other hand

  • Wave interaction with rubble mound structures

    Creator:
    Yoo, Chul-hee
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    The objective of this study is the development and verification of an analytical solution for an unsteady flow field partially occupied by a permeable structure. Flow is induced by a small amplitude incident wave train and the permeable structure may contain multilayered anisotropic but homogeneous material. The analytical solution developed...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ; Miller, 1968; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1984). For permeable structures, the weight of the armor

  • Watershed modeling at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

    Creator:
    Britch, Michael J.
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    Studies are currently underway to determine the suitability of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's first high-level nuclear waste repository. Values of net infiltration are required to determine pre-waste emplacement groundwater travel times and the performance of the repository as a waste containment system. The objective of this study...
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    Masters Thesis
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    /yr). Scott et al. (1983) developed a conceptual hydrologic model of Yucca Mountain. They estimated

  • Use of Virtual Visual Sensors in the Determination of Natural Frequencies of Timber Structures for Structural Health Monitoring

    Creator:
    Walker, Kristopher
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    Many nondestructive techniques for structural health monitoring are subjective and based on visual observations of degradation. In addition, dynamic properties of structures are already used to obtain quantitative structural health data. However, most current data collection is limited to localized damage on the structure, rather than global response. Recent research...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ____________________________________________________________________________ Rakesh Gupta Thomas H. Miller Many nondestructive techniques for structural health

  • Use of Controlled Blasting to Quantify the Dynamic, In-Situ, Nonlinear Inelastic Response of Soils

    Creator:
    Jana, Amalesh
    Abstract:
    The seismic response of deep deposits of liquefiable and cyclic-softening susceptible soils has presented the geotechnical profession with significant engineering challenges. Strong ground motions may serve to soften soils under cyclic shear, trigger liquefaction, and produce damaging displacements as a consequence. This study improves the understanding of the in-situ, nonlinear,...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Soils. Abstract approved: Armin W. Stuedlein The seismic response of deep

  • Use of benthic sediments as indicators of marina flushing

    Creator:
    Noble, Scott Morgan
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    This report presents the findings of a sediment analysis program formulated to determine the flushing potential of various shaped small boat marina basins. Chemical tests regarding volatile solids, Kjeldahl nitrogen, grease and oil, and sulfides were performed with the results compared to established sediment quality criteria. These results were used...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MASTER OF SCOTT MORGAN NOBLE