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MACROSCOPIC STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS USING TIME-SPACE STATISTICAL MODELING METHODS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
This thesis uses pavement condition data collected from FHWA between 2001-2006 aggregated by US state, to identify macroscopic factors affecting pavement roughness in time and space. To account for prior pavement condition ...
Flow Dynamics Modulation by Suspended Sediment
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Flow dynamics modulation by suspended sediment is present in nearly all geophysical flows. Many studies have sought to define the interactions among time-mean flows, turbulence, and suspended sediment. Yet the mechanisms ...
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A SEISMIC ISOLATION SYSTEM FOR LIGHTWEIGHT RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
While seismic isolation has found widespread application ranging from apartment buildings to monumental and essential facilities, only Japan has a significant number of applications of seismic isolation to houses, which ...
Short-Term Traffic Delay Prediction at the Niagara Frontier Border Crossings using Deep Learning
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Traffic delays at the United States-Canada border crossings have adverse effects on the economy as well as the environment. This thesis aims to predict passenger cars’ traffic delays at the three Niagara Frontier Border ...
Framework for Fish Passage Design and Evaluation: Application for Emerald Shiners in Niagara River
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Anthropogenic modification of natural rivers in the form of dams, dredging, or shoreline alteration can significantly impede river connectivity. Fish passage plays a significant role in mitigating ecological impairment. ...
Cooperative Platooning and Lane Changing for Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Entropy-Based Method
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) have accurate distance sensing which makes shorter headway and reduced shockwave possible, and eventually increase the roadway throughput or capacity. The vehicle to vehicle (V2V) ...
Stationary and Time-Varying Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence and Injury-Severity: Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity with Alternate Random Parameters and Latent Class Models
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
In contemporary accident research, unobserved heterogeneity is recognized as one of the most challenging statistical modeling misspecification issues. Unobserved heterogeneity (i.e., unobserved characteristics varying ...
Analytical and Experimental Study of the Contribution of Steel Casing to Single Shaft Foundation Flexural and Shear Resistance
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
The objective of this dissertation is to investigate how to account for the contribution of steel casing to the structural resistance of the single shaft foundations that are encased in a permanent steel casing and are ...
Damage Mechanics of Lead-Rubber Bearings Using the Unified Mechanics Theory
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)
In the last few decades, lead-rubber bearings (LRB) have been installed in a number of essential and important structures, like hospitals, universities and bridges, which are located in earthquake-prone areas in the world. ...
Investigation of the Linear and Non-Linear Dynamic Behavior of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings through Tests and Simulations
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
This dissertation presents a comprehensive experimental and numerical investigation of the linear and nonlinear dynamic response of Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings to dynamic loads. To this end, two actual RC buildings ...