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Understanding Fire Spread in Wildland-Urban Interface Communities
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
More than 70,000 U.S. communities, containing 46 million homes, are at risk of wildfires, yet only about 7,000 communities have adopted protection measures. The wildland urban interface (WUI) is defined as a geographic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
NON-SYNOPTIC WIND-INDUCED EFFECTS ON LONG-SPAN BRIDGES: ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL APPROACHES
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Long-span bridges are highly susceptible to wind excitations due to their flexibility and low structural damping. Currently, the analysis framework for examining the synoptic wind-induced effects on long-span bridges is ...
Analytical and Numerical Framework for the Seismic Assessment of Infilled RC Frames
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
This dissertation proposes a framework of computational and analytical tools for the efficient and accurate prediction of the nonlinear seismic behavior of buildings with masonry-infilled RC frames. The proposed framework ...
Model-in-the-Loop Testing of Flexible-Bus Conductors Interconnecting Substation Equipment
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)
Seismic performance of electrical substation equipment is of paramountimportance to avoid power outages and economic losses, and to ensureefficient post-earthquake response. Significant progress had been madetowards improving ...