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2022
Evaluation of an Equivalent Mean Grain Size Diameter to Rationally Predict the Erodibility of Fine Riverbed Soils in Nebraska, Basil Abualshar
A Physical Model of Deadmans Run, Quinn Brandt
Performance of Concrete with Different Cement Finenesses and Nano-activators, Brandon Faltin
Estimation of Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle Manure in Nebraska, Noe Hernandez
Risk Assessment of Hazardous Material Transportation for Small and Tribal Communities, Harrison Redepenning
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Soil-Geosynthetic Composite for a Geosynthetic-Reinforced Roadway System, Daniel Robertson
Development of a Next-Generation Non-Proprietary Portable Concrete Barrier, Riley Ruskamp
Efficiency of Bank Filtration in the Removal of Cyanotoxins Under Different Levels of Nutrients, Luke Walkenhorst
2021
Application of Biochar as Beneficial Additive in Concrete, Temirlan Barissov
Detecting and Evaluating Cracks on Aging Concrete Members with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Brendan Barnes
IMPACT OF PARTICLE SURFACE CHARGE HETEROGENEITY ON DEPOSITION ONTO FLAT SURFACES AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA, Thompson Delon
Evaluation of Permanent Concrete Barriers to MASH 2016, Samuel Elias Hovde
A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING CAPACITY AND PASSENGER CAR EQUIVALENTS FOR CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES TRAVELING ON FREEWAYS, Antonio Hurtado Beltran
Fragility Functions of Manufactured Houses under Earthquake Loads, Shuyah Tani Aurore Ouoba
Modeling Watershed Sensitivity to Climate Change in Systems Affected by Discharge of Mine Tailings, Johnette C. Shockley
PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF FREESTANDING HISTORIC MONUMENTS, Marie E. Wagner
Determinants of Water System Management, Caleb White
2020
Hydraulic and Mineralogical Characterization of Organoclay Before and After Reaction with Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (NAPL), Mostafa Afzalian
Biofiltration of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted at Ethanol Plants, Mitham Al-faliti
Concentration and Treatment of Odors Generated by Landfills, Gabriel Cohen
Development of a MASH Test Level 4 Open Concrete Bridge Rail, Jacob DeLone
Reliability-Calibrated ANN-Based Load and Resistance Factor Load Rating for Steel Girder Bridges, Francisco Garcia
Eliminating Rebar Splicing in Transverse Joints of Precast Full Depth Bridge Deck Panels, David Gee
Quantitative Assessment of Alkali-Silica Reaction in Small and Large-Scale Concrete Specimens Utilizing Nonlinear Acoustic Techniques, Clayton Malone
NITRATE AND HERBICIDES REMOVAL FROM GROUNDWATER USING IMMOBILIZED ALGAE, Sara Mollamohammada
RIVETED STEEL RAILWAY BRIDGE HEALTH MONITORING AND DAMAGE DETECTION, Ahmed Rageh
Development of an Improved Arterial Roadway Performance Reliability Methodology, Ernest Tufuor
2019
Evaluation Of Internally Cured Bridge Deck Concrete With Standard And Optimized Aggregate Gradation, Arman Abdigaliyev
RESTRICTED CROSSING U-TURNS AT RURAL INTERSECTIONS, Timothy Adams
Numerical Simulation of Diffuse Ultrasonic Waves in Concrete, Hossein Ariannejad
Full Scale 13-Story Building Implosion and Collapse: Effects on Adjacent Structures, Kanchan Devkota
Biofiltration of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted at Ethanol Plants, Christopher Arthur Duerschner
Simulation of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Fate in Narrow Grass Hedges, Marzieh Khedmati
Probabilistic Analysis of Slide-Rocking Structures Under Earthquake Loads, Taylor J. Knickerbocker
Sustainability Assessment of U.S. Beef Processing and its Antimicrobial Systems, Shaobin Li
Development of Post-to-Deck Connections for Use in a MASH TL-4 Steel-Tube Bridge Rail, Pascual Mauricio
Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Small Nebraska Mechanical Water Resource Recovery Facilities: Impacts of Construction and Operations, Sussan Moussavi
Assessing Impact and Blast Resilience of Polymer Coated Cementitious Materials, Murtaza Nalwala, Gabriel Nsengiyumva, and Yong-Rak Kim
Development of a MASH TL-4 Steel, Side-Mounted, Beam-and-Post, Bridge Rail, Oscar Pena
Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Water Resources Management, Mahesh Pun
Proportion and Evaluation of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Using Local Materials, Flavia Ribeiro Furtado de Mendonca
Effects of Nutrient Level and Growth Rate on Mutation and Conjugation Processes That Confer Antibiotic Resistance to E. coli, Mohammadreza Shafieifini
LIDAR Assessment to Monitor Bridge Response Under Live and Dead Loads, Daniel Watson
MULTISCALE MODELING OF FRACTURE IN QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS USING BIFURCATION ANALYSIS AND ELEMENT ELIMINATION METHOD, Keyvan Zare Rami
2018
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND UPDATING OF A FIVE-TIERED PAGODA STYLE TEMPLE, Linh Maytham Abdulrahman
Shear Strength Characteristics and Failure Mechanism of Slopes in Overconsolidated Soils of Nebraska, Hossein Bahmyari
Experimental Study on a New Type of Transverse Connection for Nebraska County Bridge System, Alexander Bleyhl
Examination of Steel Pin and Hanger Assembly Performance – Retrofit to Replacement, Chandana Chickamagalur Balakrishna
Integration of Remote Sensing and Proximal Sensing for Improvement of Field Scale Water Management, Foad Foolad
Statistical Investigation of Road and Railway Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety, Amirfarrokh Iranitalab
Artificial Neural Network and Finite Element Modeling of Nanoindentation Tests on Silica, KIANOOSH KOOCHEKI
Structural Identification and Assessment of the Inverted Tee Girder Bridge System, Garrett P. Martindale
Road Diet Feasibility Analysis for Nebraska, Brandon L. Purintun
Optimized Health Monitoring Plans for a Steel, Double-Track Railway Bridge, Ahmed Rageh
Evaluation and Development of CPT Based Pile Design in Nebraska Soils, Alex Silvey
Rainwater Harvesting System Scenario Analysis on Runoff Reduction Potential in Surabaya, Indonesia: A Geospatial Analysis for Brantas Hilir Watershed, Putri Sukmahartati
Investigation of a Tractor-Tank Trailer Roadside Containment Barrier, Dean L. Whitfield
Effects of Moving Bottlenecks on Traffic Operations on Four-lane Level Freeway Segments, Jianan Zhou
2017
Bias and Other Error in Gridded Weather Data Sets and Their Impacts on Estimating Reference Evapotranspiration, Philip A. Blankenau
Broadening Understanding of Roundabout Operation Analysis: Planning-Level Tools and Signal Application, Ahmed Buasali
Molecular Dynamics Modeling and Simulation of Bitumen Chemical Aging, Farshad Fallah
Impact-resistant Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns, Chen Fang
Simulation and Prediction of the Groundwater Level in the Surrounding Area of the Nebraska Management System Evaluation Area site in Central Nebraska., Cesar Augusto Gomez Peña
Chemical-Rheological Evaluation of the Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness of Binder Rejuvenators, H.F. Haghshenas, S. Kommidi, D. Nguyen, and Y-R Kim
Evaluation of Thin Asphalt Overlay Pavement Preservation in Nebraska: Laboratory Tests, MEPDG, and LCCA (17-2624), Soohyok Im, Taesun You, Yong-Rak Kim, Gabriel Nsengiyumva, Robert Rea, and Hamzeh Haghshenas
Injury Severity of Truck Drivers in Crashes at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings, Waleed Ali Khan
Viscoelastic Analysis and Fatigue Characterization of Bituminous Materials in Two Length Scales Under the Influence of Aging, Santosh Reddy Kommidi
Numerical Modeling to Evaluate the Performance of Slow-Release Candles for Groundwater Remediation, Chuyang Liu
Hyperelastic Structural Fuses for Steel Buildings, Francys López
HYPERELASTIC STRUCTURAL FUSES FOR IMPROVED EARTHQUAKE RESILIENCE OF STEEL CONCENTRICALLY-BRACED BUILDINGS, Francys López-Mosquera
Effects of Rejuvenators on High-RAP Mixtures Based on Laboratory Tests of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures and Fine Aggregate Matrix Mixtures, Hesamaddin Nabizadeh, Hamzeh Haghshenas, Y-R Kim, and F. T. S. Aragão
Impact of Using Spatially Distributed Soils Information on Flood Hydrograph Simulation with HEC-HMS, Matthew J. Nelson
Optimizing Steel Railway Truss Bridge Health Monitoring, Ahmed Rageh and Daniel Linzell
Influence of Skew and Nonlinear Deck on Elastic versus Inelastic Distribution Behavior and Ultimate Capacity of Steel Girder Bridges, Fayaz Sofi and Joshua Steelman
In-vehicle Evaluation of Rumble Strips in Pre-and Post-chip Sealed Maintenance Periods, Ernest Tufuor and Laurence Rilett
Indicators of assessing vehicle safety status under platoon conditions at freeway, Jianan Zhou
2016
Volume-Change Restraining Effects in Continuous Precast/Prestressed Bridge Girders, Athul Alex
SIMULATION AND PREDICTION OF THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL IN THE SURROUNDED AREA OF THE NEBRASKA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EVALUATION AREA SITE (MSEA)., Cesar Augusto Gomez Peña, Simin Akbariyeh, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Xu Li, and Yusong Li
Multiscale Research Toward Resilient Civil Infrastructure, Hamzeh Haghshenas Fatmehsari, Keyvan Zare Rami, Mahdieh Khedmati, Kommidi Santosh, Farshad Fallah, and Yong-Rak Kim
Improved Methodologies in Modeling and Predicting Failure in AASHTO M-180 Guardrail Steel Using Finite Element Analysis - Phase I, Brandt M. Humphrey
Microbial Degradation of Sulfonamide Antibiotics, Rachel Levine
CFD STUDY OF DECAY FUNCTION OF WALL SHEAR STRESS WITH SCOUR AROUND COMPLEX-SHAPE BRIDGE PIER, Chen Li
Optimizing Chemical & Rheological Properties of Rejuvenated Bitumen, Dominic Nguyen, Hamzeh Haghshenas Fatmehsari, Santosh Kommidi, and Yong-Rak Kim
Development of a Transition Between an Energy-Absorbing Concrete Barrier and a Rigid Concrete Buttress, Tyler Schmidt
Condition Factor Calibration for Load and Resistance Factor Rating of Steel Girder Bridges, Pranav M. Shakya
Performance Assessment of Deteriorated and Retrofitted Steel HP Piles, Steven T. Stauffer
AN INVESTIGATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER INATTENTION AND ITS EFFECTS AT HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSINGS, Shanshan Zhao
WATER AND ENERGY USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL INTERVENTIONS IN A MID-SIZE BEEF PACKING PLANT, Rami M. M. Ziara, Shaobin Li, Bruce I. Dvorak, and Jeyamkondan Subbiah
2015
Best Practices for Winter Maintenance Roadway Deicer Applications in the State of Nebraska, Tregan PD Albers II
METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTING THE COLUMN CONFIGURATION WITH LOWEST MEDIA REPLACEMENT COST FOR SMALL ADSORPTION SYSTEMS, Artem Bausk
Velocity Distributions and Wall Pressures in a Scale Model Gated Box Culvert Control Structure, Alexander L. Evans
EFFECTS OF SEDIMENTS ON BMPS FOR HIGHWAY RUNOFF CONTROL, Matthew Garder