Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications
2020
Examining the role of spatial skills and mathematics motivation on middle school mathematics achievement, Kinnari Atit, Jason R. Power, Norma Veurink, David H. Uttal, Sheryl Sorby, Grace Panther, Camille Msall, Logan Fiorella, and Martha Carr
Examining the role of spatial skills and mathematics motivation on middle school mathematics achievement, Kinnari Atit, Jason R. Power, Norma Veurink, David H. Uttal, Sheryl Sorby, Grace Panther, Camille Msall, Logan Fiorella, and Martha Carr
Climate change impacts the subsurface transport of atrazine and estrone originating from agricultural production activities, Renys Enrique Barrios, Simin Akbariyeh, Chuyang Liu, Khalid Muzamil Gani, Margarita T. Kovalchuk, Xu Li, Yusong Li, Daniel D. Snow, Zhenghong Tang, John Gates, and Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt
Fate and transport of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in runoff and soil as affected by the timing of swine manure slurry application, Renys Enrique Barrios, Himanshu Khuntia, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, John E. Gilley, Amy M. Schmidt Schmidt, Daniel D. Snow, and Xu Li
Regional sustainable development of renewable natural resources using Net Primary Productivity on a global scale, Saket Dubey, Ashutosh Sharma, Venkatesh Kishor Panchariya, Manish Kumar Goyal, Rao Y. Surampalli, and Tian C. Zhang
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Transportation Engineering, Chris Hendrickson, and Laurence Rilett
Fluid-driven mechanical responses of deformable porous media during two-phase flows: Hele-Shaw experiments and hydro-mechanically coupled pore network modeling, Min-Kyung Jeon, Amin Hosseini Zadeh, and Tae-Hyuk Kwon
Risk and Cost Assessment of Nitrate Contamination in Domestic Wells, Pongpun Juntakut, Erin M.K. Haacker, Daniel D. Snow, and Chittaranjan Ray
Deep Learning Classification of 2D Orthomosaic Images and 3D Point Clouds for Post-Event Structural Damage Assessment, Yijun Liao, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, and Richard L. Wood
Discrete and Distributed Error Assessment of UAS- SfM Point Clouds of Roadways, Yijun Liao and Richard L. Wood
Life Cycle Assessment of the US Beef Processing through Integrated Hybrid Approach, Shaobin Li, Yuwei Qin, Jeyamkondan Subbiah, and Bruce Dvorak
Nitrate Removal from Groundwater Using Immobilized Heterotrophic Algae, Sara Mollamohammada, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and Mohamed Dahab
In situ characterization of temperature and gas production using membrane interface probe (MIP) and hydraulic profiling tool (HPT) in an operating municipal solid waste landfill, M. Sina Mousavi, Yuan Feng, Mostafa Afzilian, Josh McCann, and Jongwan Eun
BARRIER SYSTEM, Scott Rosenbaugh, Jennifer Dawn Rasmussen, Ronald K. Faller, Robert W. Bielenberg, James C. Holloway, Karla A. Lechtenberg, and John D. Reid
Insights into the adsorption of Pb(II) over trimercapto-s-triazine trisodium salt-modified lignin in a wide pH range, Qiaorui Wang, Chunli Zheng, Fei He, Yuan Yao, Tian C. Zhang, and Chi He
A magnetic γ-Fe2O3@PANI@TiO2 core–shell nanocomposite for arsenic removal via a coupled visible-light-induced photocatalytic oxidation– adsorption process†, Yuan Wang, Ping Zhang, Tian Zhang, Gang Xiang, Xinlong Wang, Simo Pehkonen, and Shaojun Yuan
Automated Transverse Crack Mapping System with Optical Sensors and Big Data Analytics, Kwanghee Won and Chungwook Sim
Nonlinear dynamic tests of a reinforced concrete frame building at different damage levels, Seyedsina Yousefianmoghadam, Mingming Song, Mohammad E. Mohammadi, Brittany Packard, Andreas Stavridis, Babak Moaveni, and Richard L. Wood
Experimental study on the characteristics of formation and dissociation of CO2 hydrates in porous media, Amin Hosseini Zadeh, Ijung Kim, and Seunghee Kim
Experimental study of pipe-pile-based micro-scale compressed air energy storage (PPMS-CAES) for a building, Jingtao Zhang, Hoyoung Seo, Sihyun Kim, Junyoung Ko, and Seunghee Kim
2019
Feasibility of electromagnetic soil heating using magnetic nanoparticle-coated geotextiles, Ijung Kim, Caroline Best, and Seunghee Kim
Efficient Intensity Measures of Slide-Rocking Structures for Precariously Balanced Rocks, Taylor J. Knickerbocker and Christine E. Wittich
Advanced Selection Methodologies for DNAzymes in Sensing and Healthcare Applications, Sandeep Kumar, Shikha Jain, Neeraj Dilbaghi, Amrik Singh Ahluwalia, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and Ki-Hyun Kim
Post-Fire Damage Geospatial Assessment via Point Clouds of a Highway Bridge Structure, Yijun Liao, M Ebrahim Mohammadi, Richard L. Wood, and Christine E. Wittich
Damage Assessment of a Sixteen Story Building Following the 2017 Central Mexico Earthquake, Yijun Liao, Richard L. Wood, M Ebrahim Mohammadi, Kanchan Devkota, and Christine E. Wittich
Environmental and occupational impacts from U.S. beef slaughtering are of same magnitude of beef foodborne illnesses on human health, Shaobin Li, Jeyamkondan Subbiah, and Bruce Dvorak
Driving Performances Assessment Based on Speed Variation Using Dedicated Route Truck GPS Data, Ying Li, Li Zhao, and Laurence R. Rilett
Deep Learning-Based Damage Detection from Aerial SfM Point Clouds, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Daniel P. Watson, and Richard L. Wood
Non-Temporal Point Cloud Analysis for Surface Damage in Civil Structures, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Richard L. Wood, and Christine E. Wittich
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Sustainable Farming Compartment with Evaporative Cooling System, M. Sina Mousavi, Siamak Mirfendereski, Jae Sung Park, and Jongwan Eun
Pine-wood derived nanobiochar for removal of carbamazepine from aqueous media: Adsorption behavior and influential parameters, Mitra Naghdi, Mehrdad Taheran, Rama Pulicharla, Tarek Rouissi, Satinder K. Brar, M. Verma, and R. Y. Surampalli
Organochlorinated pesticides expedite the enzymatic degradation of DNA, Chao Qin, Bing Yang, Wei Zhang, Wanting Ling, Cun Liu, Juan Liu, Xu Li, and Yanzheng Gao
Bio-desalination of brackish and seawater using halophytic algae, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and Amro El Badawy
Post-Earthquake Assessment and Numerical Modeling of Freestanding Heritage Structures, M. Khalid Saifullah and Christine E. Wittich
ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONCRETE MIX FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC ( EM ) GROUND PLANE, Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONCRETE SLAB WITH PROTECTION FROM CURRENT LEAKAGE, Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen
Degradation of methylene blue with magnetic Co-doped Fe3O4@FeOOH nanocomposites as heterogeneous catalysts of peroxymonosulfate, Kai Wang, Yi Yang, Tian C. Zhang, Ying Liang, and Qingguo Wang
Remote Sensing of Environment: Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications, Michael A. Wulder, Thomas R. Loveland, David P. Roy, Christopher J. Crawford, Jeffrey G. Masek, Curtis E. Woodcock, Richard G. Allen, Martha C. Anderson, Alan S. Belward, Warren B. Cohen, John Dwyer, Angela Erb, Feng Gao, Patrick Griffiths, Dennis Helder, Txomin Hermosilla, James D. Hipple, Patrick Hostert, M. Joseph Hughes, Justin Huntington, David M. Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Ayse Kilic, Zhan Li, Leo Lymburner, Joel McCorkel, Nima Pahlevan, Theodore A. Scambos, Crystal Schaaf, John R. Schott, Yongwei Sheng, James Storey, Eric Vermote, James Vogelmann, Joanne C. White, Randolph H. Wynne, and Zhe Zhu
MIDAS-VT-Pre: Software to generate 2D finite element model of particle/fiber embedded composites with cohesive zones, Keyvan Zare-Rami and Yong-Rak Kim
MIDAS-VT-Pre: Software to generate 2D finite element model of particle/fiber embedded composites with cohesive zones, Keyvan Zare-Rami and Yong-Rak Kim
Protocol efficiently measuring the swelling rate of hydrogels, Katherine Zhang, Wuxiang Feng, and Congrui Jin
Performance Improvement in Pile Anchor System for Deep Foundation Excavation Using Electroosmotic Chemical Treatment, Lei Zhang, Bing-Hui Wang, Li-Yan Wang, Li-Ping Jing, Chen Fang, and Zhen-Dong Shan
The Influence of Water/Cement Ratio and Air Entrainment on the Electric Resistivity of Ionically Conductive Mortar, Ruohong Zhao, Yubin Weng, Christopher Tuan, and An Xu
2018
Three-dimensional modeling of nitrate-N transport in vadose zone: Roles of soil heterogeneity and groundwater flux, Simin Akbariyeh, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Daniel D. Snow, Xu Li, Zhenghong Tang, and Yusong Li
Signal Timing Optimization for Corridors with Multiple Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Using Genetic Algorithm, Yifeng Chen and Laurence Rilett
Using Watershed Boundaries to Map Adverse Health Outcomes: Examples From Nebraska, USA, Brittany Corley, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Eleanor Rogan, Donald Coulter, John Sparks, Lorena Baccaglini, Madeline Howell, Sidra Liaquat, Rex Commack, and Alan S. Kolok
Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Metal Industrial Buildings, Adrianna M. Early, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Richard L. Wood, and Kara D. Peterma
Fungi: A Neglected Candidate for the Application of Self-Healing Concrete, Congrui Jin, Rui Yu, and Zhonghe Shui
The long term effect of agricultural, vadose zone and climatic factors on nitrate contamination in Nebraska's groundwater system, Pongpun Juntakut, Daniel D. Snow, Erin M.K. Haacker, and Chittaranjan Ray
The long term effect of agricultural, vadose zone and climatic factors on nitrate contamination in Nebraska’s groundwater system, Pongpun Juntakut, Daniel D. Snow, Erin M.K. Haacker, and Chittaranjan Ray
Investigation of Rheological Properties of Blended Cement Pastes Using Rotational Viscometer and Dynamic Shear Rheometer, Yoo Jae Kim, Bum-Yean Cho, Soon-Jae Lee, Jiong Hu, and James W. Wilde
Investigation of rapid remote sensing techniques for forensic wind analyses, Yijun Liao, Richard L. Wood, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Peter J. Hughes, and J. Arn Womble
Adsorption of diclofenac onto different biochar microparticles: Dataset – Characterization and dosage of biochar, Linson Lonappan, Tarek Rouissi, Satinder Kaur Brar, Mausam Verma, and Rao Y. Surampalli
Comparative Study on the Performance of Anaerobic and Aerobic Biotrickling Filter for Removal of Chloroform, Bineyam Mezgebe, Keerthisaranya Palanisamy, George A. Sorial, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and Jingrang Lu
Mechanical Characterization of Polysilicon MEMS: A Hybrid TMCMC/POD-Kriging Approach, Ramin Mirzazadeh, Saeed Eftekhar Azam, and Stefano Mariani
Damage Assessment of Built-Up Areas Via UAS-SfM Derived Point Cloud Data, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi and Richard L. Wood
Post-Earthquake Structural Damage Assessment Through Point Cloud Data, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi and Richard L. Wood
Understanding Electricity Bills: Guidance for Nebraska Businesses and Municipalities, Elizabeth M. Regier and Bruce I. Dvorak
SYSTEM INCLUDING ADJUSTABLE CONTINUITY JOINTS AND / OR ROTATION MITIGATION SLIDING POSTS FOR RAIL ELEMENTS, Scott K. Rosenbaugh, Jennifer D. Schmidt, Robert Bielenberg, Ronald K. Faller, Karla A. Lechtenberg, John D. Reid, and James C. Holloway
Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Decks with Automated Acoustic Scanning System and Ground Penetrating Radar, Hongbin Sun, Sepehr Pashoutani, and Jinying Zhu
CONCRETE MIX FOR SHOTCRETE APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING, Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen
ANALYSIS OF LOW-COST BLUETOOTH-PLUS-WIFI DEVICE FOR TRAVEL TIME RESEARCH, Ernest Tufuor and Laurence Rilett
Land Suitability Analysis for Emergency Medical Services Posts along State Highways: A Case Study of California, Ernest Tufuor, Laurence Rilett, Yunwoo Nam, and Antonio Hurtado Beltran
3-D Reconstructions and Numerical Simulations of Precarious Rocks in Southern California, Christine E. Wittich, Tara C. Hutchinson, J. DeSanto, and D. Sandwell
Multi-Scale Remote Sensing of Tornado Effects, J. Arn Womble, Richard L. Wood, and Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi
Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Technologies: Bioelectrochemical Systems, Rami Ziara, Bruce Dvorak, and Jeyamkondan Subbiah
2017
Engineering Professors’ Perspectives on Gender and Assessment of Teamwork, Kacey Beddoes and Grace Panther
Development of a Test Level 3 Transition Between Guardrail and Portable Concrete Barriers, Robert W. Bielenberg, David Gutierrez, Ronald K. Faller, John D. Reid, and Phil Tenhulzen
Role of Fungal Biomass in N-Hexane Biofiltration, Mena M. Botros, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and George A. Sorial
Quantifying Effectiveness of Streambank Stabilization Practices on Cedar River, Nebraska, Naisargi N. Dave and Aaron R. Mittelstet
Transmission Range Evaluations for Connected Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings, Chung-Jen Hsu and Elizabeth Jones
Transmission Range Evaluations for Connected Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings, Chung-Jen Hsu and Elizabeth G. Jones
NANOCOMPOSITE PHOTODETECTOR, Jinsong Huang and Fawen Guo
Toward Generic Models for Green LAI Estimation in Maize and Soybean: Satellite Observations, Oz Kira, Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson, Timothy J. Arkebauer, Raphael Linker, and Anatoly A. Gitelson
Calibrating the Robertson’s Platoon Dispersion Model on a Coordinated Corridor with Advance Warning Flashers, Zhao Li, Laurence Rilett, and Ernest Tufuor
Effects of source and seasonal variations of natural organic matters on the fate and transport of CeO2 nanoparticles in the environment, Zhen Li, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, George A. Sorial, and Changseok Han
Experimental-Statistical Investigation of Testing Variables of a Semicircular Bending (SCB) Fracture Test Repeatability for Bituminous Mixtures, G. Nsengiyumva, T. You, and Yong-Rak Kim
Biosurfactant as an Enhancer of Geologic Carbon Storage: Microbial Modification of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angle in Carbon dioxide/Water/Quartz Systems, Taehyung Park, Hyun-Woo Joo, Gyeong-Yeong Kim, Seunghee Kim, Sukhwan Yoon, and Tae-Hyuk Kwon
STRUCTURAL CONCRETE MIX FOR CONSTRUCTION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE/PULSE SHIELDING, Christopher Y. Tuan and Lim Nguyen
DEVELOPMENT OF A STATISTICALLY-BASED METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYZING AUTOMATIC SAFETY TREATMENTS AT ISOLATED HIGH-SPEED SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS, Remigiusz M. Wojtal and Laurence R. Rilett
Structural Identification of an 18-Story RC Building in Nepal Using Post-Earthquake Ambient Vibration and Lidar Data, Hanshun Yu, Mohammed A. Mohammed, Mohammad E. Mohammadi, Babak Moaveni, Andre R. Barbosa, Andreas Stavridis, and Richard L. Wood
2016
Polyurethane foam (PUF) passive samplers for monitoring phenanthrene in stormwater, Yueqin Dou, Tian C. Zhang, Jing Zeng, John S. Stansbury, Massom Moussavi, Dana L. Richter-Egger, and Mitchell R Klein
Drinking Water Treatment: Salt-Free Water “Softener” Options, Bruce I. Dvorak
Geometry-coupled reactive fluid transport at the fracture scale: application to CO2 geologic storage, S. Kim and J.C. Santamarina
Diclofenac and its transformation products: Environmental occurrence and toxicity - A review, Linson Lonappan, Satinder K. Brar, Ratul Kumar Das, Mausam Verma, and Rao Y. Surampalli
Characterization of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (Eps) Produced by Cloacibacterium normanense Isolated from Wastewater Sludge for Sludge Settling and Dewatering, K Nouha, N V. Hoang, Yan Song, R D. Tyagi, and Rao Surampalli
EPS Producing Microorganisms from Municipal Wastewater Activated Sludge, Klai Nouha, Yan S, Tyagi RD, and Surampalli RY
Anisotropic contrast optical microscope, D. Peev, T. Hofmann, N. Kananizadeh, S. Beeram, E. Rodriguez, S. Wimer, K.B. Rodenhausen, C.M. Herzinger, T. Kasputis, E. Pfaunmiller, A. Nguyen, Rafal Korlacki, A. Pannier, Y. Li, E. Schubert, D. Hage, and M. Schubert
Field-Scale Testing and Numerical Investigation of Soil-Boulder Interaction under Vehicular Impact Using FEM and Coupled FEM-SPH Formulations, Lynsey Reese, Tong Qiu, Daniel Linzell, and Zoltan Rado
Evaluation of the Midwest Guardrail System stiffness transition with curb, Jennifer D. Schmidt, Scott K. Rosenbaugh, and Ronald K. Faller
Drinking Water: Hard Water (Calcium and Magnesium), Sharon O. Skipton and Bruce I. Dvorak
Development of adsorptive membranes by confinement of activated biochar into electrospun nanofibers, Mehrdad Taheran, Mitra Naghdi, Satinder K. Brar, Emile Knystautas, Mausam Verma, Rao Y. Surampalli, and Jose R. Valero
A Primer on Vehicle-to-Barrier Communications: Effects of Roadside Barriers, Encroachment, and Vehicle Braking, Samil Temel, Mehmet C. Vuran, and Ronald K. Faller
CONCRETE MIX FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE/PULSE SHIELDING, Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen
Expedient airfield runway repair using folded fiberglass mat, Christopher Y. Tuan and Willaim C. Dass
Experimental Modal Analysis and Seismic Mitigation of Statue-Pedestal Systems, Christine E. Wittich and Tara C. Hutchinson
Carbon nanotubes affect the toxicity of CuO nanoparticles to denitrification in marine sediments by altering cellular internalization of nanoparticle, Xiong Zheng, Yinglong Su, Yinguang Chen, Rui Wan, Mu Li, Haining Huang, and Xu Li
2015
Obtaining the Thermal Structure of Lakes from the Air, Michaella Chung, Carrick Detweiler, Michael Hamilton, James Higgins, John-Paul W. Ore, and Sally Thompson
Triclosan: Current Status, Occurrence, Environmental Risks and Bioaccumulation Potential, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Surinder Kaur, Rama Pulicharla, Satinder K. Brar, Maximiliano Cledon, Mausam Verma, and Rao Y. Surampalli