Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications
2024
A comprehensive study on the impact of human hair fiber and millet husk ash on concrete properties: response surface modeling and optimization, Naraindas Bheel, Muhammad Alamgeer Shams, Samiullah Sohu, Abdul Salam Buller, Taoufik Najeh, Fouad Ismail Ismail, and Omrane Benjeddou
Assessment of satellite-based water requirements for a drip-irrigated apple orchard in Mediterranean agroclimatic conditions, Daniel de la Fuente-Saiz, Samuel Ortega-Farias, Marcos Carrasco-Benavides, Samuel Ortega-Salazar, Fei Tian, Sufen Wang, and Yi Liu
Effects of electrode materials and potential gradient on electro-osmotic consolidation for marine clayey soils, Haihui Jin, Lei Zhang, Binghui Wang, Chen Fang, and Liyan Wang
Energy system for evaluation of modification methods on energy transfer efficiency and optimization ofmembranes, Tian Li, Hong Zhou, Wei Ding, Jinjun Wang, and Tiancheng Zhang
Blood lead, cadmium and hair mercury concentrations and association with soil, dust and occupational factors in e-waste recycling workers in Bangladesh, Sarker Masud Parvez, Farjana Jahan, Jaynal Abedin, Mahbubur Rahman, Shaikh Sharif Hasan, Nafisa Islam, Nirupam Aich, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Zahir Islam, Masatake Fujimura, Rubhana Raqib, Luke D. Knibbs, and Peter D. Sly
Influence of Four Veterinary Antibiotics on Constructed Treatment Wetland Nitrogen Transformation, Matthew V. Russell, Tiffany L. Messer, Deborah A. Repert, Richard L. Smith, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Daniel D. Snow, and Ariel P. Reed
Synergistic preparation and application in PCU of α‑calcium sulfate hemihydrate whiskers from phosphogypsum and electrolytic manganese residue, Ting Wang, Xuan Ke, Jia Li, Ying Wang, Weiwei Guan, Xia Sha, Chenjing Yang, and Tian Zhang
Investigating small drinking water system technical capacity to treat for PFAS, Chloe J. Yoder and Kaycie Lane
2023
Application of Neural Networks for Hydrologic Process Understanding at a Midwestern Watershed, Annushka Aliev, Sinan Rasiya Koya, Incheol Kim, Jongwan Eun, Elbert Traylor, and Tirthankar Roy
Higher concentrations of microplastics in runoff from biosolid-amended croplands than manure-amended croplands, Nasrin Naderi Beni, Shahab Karimifard, John Gilley, Tiffany Messer, Amy Schmidt, and Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt
Drinking Water Contaminants: Lead, Bruce I. Dvorak and Becky M. Schuerman
Drinking Water Contaminants: Bacteria, Bruce I. Dvorak and Becky O. Schuerman
Evaluation of Equivalent Thermal Conductivity for Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Bentonite through Experimental and Numerical Analysis, Yuan Feng, Jongwan Eun, Seunghee Kim, and Yong-Rak Kim
Evaluation of Equivalent Thermal Conductivity for Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Bentonite through Experimental and Numerical Analysis, Yuan Feng, Jongwan Eun, Seunghee Kim, and Yong-Rak Kim
Drinking water quality management progress in Ontario, two decades after Walkerton, Megan Fuller, Emma Wells, Laith Furatian, Ian Douglas, and Kaycie Lane
Using innovative copper‑loaded activated alumina (Cu/AA) as the catalyst for catalytic wet peroxidation (CWPO) of catechol, Vijayalakshmi Gosu, Archana Dhakar, Tian C. Zhang, Rao Y. Surampalli, and Verraboina ubbaramaiah
Characterization of Bubble Transport in Porous Media Using a Microfluidic Channel, Ryan Haggerty, Dong Zhang, Jongwan Eun, and Yusong Li
Meta-analysis of driving behavior studies and assessment of factors using structural equation modeling, Duong Ngoc Hai, Chu Cong Minh, and Nathan Huynh
Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health, Kazi Albab Hussain, Svetlana Romanova, Ilhami Okur, Dong Zhang, Jesse Kuebler, Xi Huang, Bing Wang, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Yongfeng Lu, Mathias Schubert, and Yusong Li
Optimization of removal of toluene from industrial wastewater using RSM Box– Behnken experimental design, Dariush Jafari, Morteza Esfandyari, and Mehdi Mojahed
Optimization of removal of toluene from industrial wastewater using RSM Box– Behnken experimental design, Dariush Jafari, Morteza Esfandyari, and Mehdi Mojahed
Experimental Study: The Effect of Pore Shape, Geometrical Heterogeneity, and Flow Rate on the Repetitive Two-Phase Fluid Transport in Microfluidic Porous Media, Seunghee Kim, Jingtao Zhang, and Sangjin Ryu
Impact of Eastern Redcedar Encroachment on Water Resources in the Nebraska Sandhills, Yaser Kishawi, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Troy E. Gilmore, Dirac Twidwell, Tirthankar Roy, and Nawaraj Shrestha
Applicability of a flood forecasting system for Nebraska watersheds, Sinan Rasiya Koya, Nicolas Velasquez Giron, Marcela Rojas, Ricardo Mantilla, Kirk Harvey, Daniel Ceynar, Felipe Quintero, Witold F. Krajewski, and Tirthankar Roy
An autoencoder‑based snow drought index, Sinan Rasiya Koya, Kanak Kanti Kar, Shivendra Srivastava, Tsegaye Tadesse, Mark D. Svoboda, and Tirthankar Roy
An autoencoder‑based snow drought index, Sinan Rasiya Koya, Kanak Kanti Kar, Shivendra Srivastava, Tsegaye Tadesse, Mark Svoboda, and Tirthankar Roy
A critical review of risk matrices used in water safety planning: improving risk matrix construction, Kaycie Lane and Steve E. Hrudey
Simultaneous 3D Construction and Imaging of Plant Cells Using Plasmonic Nanoprobe-Assisted Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Microscopy, Kun Liu, Yutian Lei, and Dawei Li
Simultaneous 3D Construction and Imaging of Plant Cells Using Plasmonic Nanoprobe-Assisted Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Microscopy, Kun Liu, Yutian Lei, and Dawei Li
Nonlinear impact-echo test for quantitative evaluation of ASR damage in concrete, Clayton Malone, Hongbin Sun, and Jinying Zhu
Nonlinear impact-echo test for quantitative evaluation of ASR damage in concrete, Clayton Malone, Hongbin Sun, and Jinying Zhu
Mechanisms and Opportunities for Rational In Silico Design of Enzymes to Degrade Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), Melissa Marciesky, Diana S. Aga, Ian M. Bradley, Nirupam Aich, and Carla Ng
Multi-factor optimization of bio-methanol production through gasification process via statistical methodology coupled with genetic algorithm, Amin Hedayati Moghaddam, Morteza Esfandyari, Dariush Jafari, and Hossein Sakhaeinia
Multi-factor optimization of bio-methanol production through gasification process via statistical methodology coupled with genetic algorithm, Amin Hedayati Moghaddam, Morteza Esfandyari, Dariush Jafari, and Hossein Sakhaeinia
Sensor Equipped UAS for Non-Contact Bridge Inspections: Field Application, Roya Nasimi, Fernando Moreu, and G. Matthew Fricke
Study on the Combined Effect of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash andWaste Shingle in Hot Mix Asphalt, Kyungwon Park, Behnam Golestani, Boo Hyun Nam, Juan Hou, and Jongwan Eun
Real Depth-Correction in Ground Penetrating RADAR Data Analysis for Bridge Deck Evaluation, Sepehr Pashoutani and Jinying Zhu
Uncertainty in overturning of precariously balanced rocks due to basal contact, M. Khalid Saifullah and Christine E. Wittich
Experimental and Analytical Studies of Size Effects on Compressive Ductility Response of Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Arafat Alam, Deric John Oehlers, Phillip Visintin, Abdul Hamid Sheikh, Mohamed Ali Sadakkathulla, and Michael Griffith
Experimental and Analytical Studies of Size Effects on Compressive Ductility Response of Ultra- High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Md. Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Arafat Alam, Deric John Oehlers, Phillip Visintin, Adbul Hamid Sheikh, Mohamed Ali Sadakkathulla, and Michael Griffith
The efficacy of conservation practices in reducing floods and improving water quality, Shivendra Srivastava, Andrea D. Basche, Elbert Traylor, and Tirthankar Roy
Integrated flood risk assessment of properties and associated population at county scale for Nebraska, USA, Shivendra Srivastava and Tirthankar Roy
Integrated flood risk assessment of properties and associated population at county scale for Nebraska, USA, Shivendra Srivastava and Tirthankar Roy
Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy of nonprompt D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at √𝑠NN = 5.02 TeV, A. Tumasyan
Comparison of models with and without roadway features to estimate annual average daily traffic at non-coverage locations, Jing Wang, Ryan DeVine, Nathan Huynh, Weimin Jin, Gurcan Comert, and Mashrur Chowdhury
Comparison of models with and without roadway features to estimate annual average daily traffic at non-coverage locations, Jing Wang, Ryan DeVine, Nathan Huynh, Weimin Jin, Gurcan Comert, and Mashrur Chowdhury
Antimony nanobelt asymmetric membranes for sodium ion battery, Logan Williams, Jake DiCesare, Olivia Sheppard, Congrui Grace Jin, Xiaobo Chen, and Ji Wu
Hierarchical Ni-Mn LDHs@CuC2O4 Nanosheet Arrays-Modified Copper Mesh: A Dual-Functional Material for Enhancing Oil/Water Separation and Supercapacitors, Yue Wu, Guangyuan Lu, Ping Xu, Tian Zhang, Huaqiang He, and Shaojun Yuan
Hierarchical Ni-Mn LDHs@CuC2O4 Nanosheet Arrays-Modified Copper Mesh: A Dual-Functional Material for Enhancing Oil/Water Separation and Supercapacitors, Yue Wu, Guangyuan Lu, Ping Xu, Tian Zhang, Huaqiang He, and Shaojun Yuan
2022
Hybrid Timber Concrete Composite Slab for Analysis of Lag Screw Embedment Connections, Jawad Al Lawati, Ece Erdogmus, Dennis Young, Husam Al Dughaishi, Moad Alosta, Zainab Al-Khafaji, Zaher Mundher Yaseen, and Abdalrhman Milad
Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on activity-travel scheduling: A survey in the greater Toronto area, Alireza Dianat, Jason Hawkins, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Effects of Friction on the Dynamic Behavior of Flexible Rocking Bodies, S. Mohammadreza Farooghi Mehr and Christine E. Wittich
Project-Based Learning Promotes Students’Perceived Relevance in an Engineering Statistics Course: A Comparison of Learning in Synchronous and Online Learning Environments, Wen Huang, Jeremi S. London, and Loga A. Perry
Study and Comparison of the Performance of Steel Frames with BRB and SMA Bracing, Mohsen Jalalvandi, Ahmad Soraghi, Seyed Mohammadreza Farooghi Mehr, Abbas Haghollahi, and Ali Abasi
Chemical Toxicants in Water: A GeoHealth Perspective in the Context of Climate Change, Naveen Joseph, Tate Libunao, Elizabeth Herrmann, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Catherine R. Propper, Jesse E. Bell, and Alan S. Kolok
Probability-Based Crack Width Estimation Model for Flexural Members of Underground RC Box Culverts, Sang-Hyo Kim, Syed Haider Ali Shah, Sang-Kyun Woo, Inyeop Chu, and Chungwook Sim
Revealing driver psychophysiological response to emergency braking in distracted driving based on field experiments, Ying Li, Li Zhao, Kun Gao, Yisheng An, and Jelena Andric
Immobilized Algae for Produced Water Treatment and Desalination, Shibin Nadersha and Ashraf Aly Hassan
Geospatial Distribution of Age-Adjusted Incidence of the Three Major Types of Pediatric Cancers and Waterborne Agrichemicals in Nebraska, Balkissa S. Ouattara, Jagadeesh Puvvula, Azar Abadi, Siddhi Munde, Alan S. Kolok, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Jesse E. Bell, Christopher S. Wichman, and Eleanor Rogan
Dataset for large-scale, lateral-torsional buckling tests of continuous beams in a grillage system, Ahmed Rageh, C. Shawn Sun, Daniel G. Linzell, and Jay A. Puckett
Effects of Nutrient Level and Growth Rate on the Conjugation Process That Transfers Mobile Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Continuous Cultures, Mohammadreza Shafieifini, Yuepeng Sun, Zachery R. Staley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jean-Jack Riethoven, and Xu Li
Assessing the Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning Across Two Concrete Construction Courses, Anthony Torres, Jiong Hu, Vedaraman Sriraman, Araceli Martínez-Ortiz, and Jorge Membrillo-Hernández
agroString: Visibility and Provenance through a Private Blockchain Platform for Agricultural Dispense towards Consumers, Sukrutha L. T. Vangipuram, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos, and Chittaranjan Ray
G-DaM: A Distributed Data Storage with Blockchain Framework for Management of Groundwater Quality Data, Sukrutha L. T. Vangipuram, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos, and Chittaranjan Ray
Metal-Free Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via Intramolecular Electrochemical C-H Aminations, Huiqiao Wang, Yongjun Zheng, Hucheng Xu, Jiaru Zou, and Congrui Grace Jin
Laboratory study of consolidation of marine soft soil using flocculation-vacuum preloading-electro-osmosis, Lei Zhang, Yan-dong Lu, Bing-hui Wang, Dan-dan Jin, Ming-xing Zhu, and Chen Fang
Applications of Stretching Technique and Time Window Effects on Ultrasonic Velocity Monitoring in Concrete, Bibo Zhong and Jinying Zhu
Applications of Stretching Technique and Time Window Effects on Ultrasonic Velocity Monitoring in Concrete, Bibo Zhong and Jinying Zhu
2021
CABra: a novel large-sample dataset for Brazilian catchments, Andre Almagro, Paulo Tarso S. Oliveira, Antonio Alves Meira Neto, Tirthankar Roy, and Peter Troch
Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity of Overconsolidated Soils Based on Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT), Binyam M. Bekele, Chung R. Song, Gyunam Jin, and Mark Lindemann
Single-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis of Biochar from H3PO4-Activated LettuceWaste for Efficient Adsorption of Cd(II) in Aqueous Solution, Quyun Chen, Tian C. Zhang, Like Ouyang, and Shaojun Yuan
Compliance with hand sanitizer quality during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Assessing the impurities in an ethanol plant, Gabriel Cohen, Nathan Kreutzer, Katie Mowat, Ashraf Aly Hassan, and Bruce Dvorak
Assessment of a Program for SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Environmental Monitoring in an Urban Public School District, John Crowe, Andy T. Schnaubelt, Scott Schmdit Bonne, Kathleen Angell, Julia Bai, Teresa Eske, Molly Nicklin, Catherine Pratt, Bailey White, Brodie Crotts-Hannibal, Nicholas Staffend, Vicki Herrera, Jeramie Cobb, Jennifer Connor, Julie Carstens, Jonell Tempero, Lori Bouda, Matthew Ray, James V. Lawler, W Scott Campbell, John-Martin Lowe, Joshua Santarpia, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Michael Wiley, David Brett-Major, Cheryl Logan, and Jana Broadhurst
Pollution Prevention/Environmental Sustainability for Industry, Bruce Dvorak
Drinking Water: Iron and Manganese, Bruce I. Dvorak and Becky Schuerman
Exploring the structural uniformity and integrity of protonic ceramic thin film electrolyte using wet powder spraying, Wuxiang Feng, Wei Wu, Congrui Grace Jin, Meng Zhou, Wenjuan Bian, Wei Tang, Joshua Y. Gomez, Richard Boardman, and Dong Ding
Validation of the Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire (MMQ) for secondary school students, Logan Fiorella, So Yoon Yoon, Kinnari Atit, Jason R. Power, Grace Panther, Sheryl Sorby, David H. Uttal, and Norma Veurink
Computing Accurate Probabilistic Estimates of One-D Entropy from Equiprobable Random Samples, Hoshin V. Gupta, Mohammed Reza Ehsani, Tirthankar Roy, Maria A. Sans-Fuentes, Uwe Ehret, and Ali Behrangi
Biotransformation of doxycycline by Brevundimonas naejangsanensis and Sphingobacterium mizutaii strains, Ting He, Jianguo Bao, Yifei Leng, Daniel D. Snow, Shuqiong Kong, Tong Wang, and Xu Li
Experimental and Numerical Studies on Thermally-Induced Slip Ratcheting on a Slope, Sihyun Kim, Seunghee Kim, Jingtao Zhang, Ethan Ethan, and Abdallah Sweidan
Editorial: Advances in Pollutant Transport in Critical Zone Environments, Huilian Ma, Yusong Li, Chongyang Shen, Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos, and Hyunjung Kim
Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E), Juliane Mai, Bryan A. Tolson, Hongren Shen, Etienne Gaborit, Vincent Fortin, Nicolas Gasset, Herve Awoye, Tricia A. Stadnyk, Lauren M. Fry, Emily A. Bradley, Frank Seglenieks, Andre G.T. Temgoua, Daniel G. Princz, Shervan Gharari, Amin Haghnegahdar, Mohamed E. Elshamy, Saman Razavi, Martin Gauch, Jimmy Lin, Xiaojing Ni, Yongping Yuan, Meghan McLeod, Nandita B. Basu, Rohini Kumar, Oldrich Rakovec, Luis Samaniego, Sabine Attinger, Narayan K. Shrestha, Prasad Daggupati, Tirthankar Roy, Sungwook Wi, Tim Hunter, James R. Craig, and Alain Pietroniro
Identification of Contributing Factors for Driver’s Perceptual Bias of Aggressive Driving in China, Yongfeng Ma, Xin Gu, Ya'nan Yu, Aemal Khattak, Shuyan Chen, and Kun Tang
A Hybrid Biological-Adsorption Approach for the Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater Using Immobilized Nanoclay-Algae Mixtures, Sara Mollamohammada, Ashraf Aly Hassan, Mohamed Dahab, and Sandeep Kumar
In Situ Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Using Membrane Interface Probe (MIP) and Hydraulic Profiling Tool (HPT) in an Active and Closed Landfill, M. Sina Mousavi, Yuan Feng, Josh McCann, and Jongwan Eun
Pectin modified metal nanoparticles and their application in property modification of biosensors, Meena Nemiwal, Tian C. Zhang, and Dinesh Kumar
Multi-sensor data collection and fusion using autoencoders in condition evaluation of concrete bridge decks, Sepehr Pashoutani, Jinying Zhu, Chungwook Sim, Kwanghee Won, Brian A. Mazzeo, and W Spencer Guthrie
Association between Aqueous Atrazine and Pediatric Cancer in Nebraska, Jagadeesh Puvvula, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Balkiss S. Ouattara, Alan S. Kolok, Jesse E. Bell, and Eleanor G. Rogan
Arterial Roadway Travel Time Reliability and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Laurence Rilett, Ernest Tufuor, and Sean Murphy
Natural Hazards Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science, Sanjib Sharma, Kshitij Dahal, Lorenzo Nava, Manish Raj Gouli, Rocky Talchabhadel, Jeeban Panthi, Tirthankar Roy, and Ganesh R. Ghimire
Stockpiling versus Composting: Effectiveness in Reducing Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Beef Cattle Manure, Zachery R. Staley, Bryan L. Woodbury, Bobbi S. Stromer, Amy Schmidt, Daniel D. Snow, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Bing Wang, and Xu Li
Transmission Routes of the Microbiome and Resistome from Manure to Soil and Lettuce, Yuepeng Sun, Daniel D. Snow, Harkamal Walia, and Xu Li
Mix Design Effects on the Durability of Alkali-Activated Slag Concrete in a Hydrochloric Acid Environment, Mohammad Teymouri, Kiachehr Behfarnia, and Amirhosein Shabani
New Travel Time Reliability Methodology for Urban Arterial Corridors, Ernest Tufuor and Laurence Rilett
Improving Operational Short- to Medium-Range (SR2MR) Streamflow Forecasts in the Upper Zambezi Basin and Its Sub-Basins Using Variational Ensemble Forecasting, Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda, Juan B. Valdés, Sungwook Wi, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, and Tirthankar Roy
Feature-Based Point Cloud-Based Assessment of Heritage Structures for Nondestructive and Noncontact Surface Damage Detection, Richard L. Wood and Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi
Recent updates on ions and nutrients uptake by halotolerant freshwater and marine microalgae in conditions of high salinity, Abdul Mannan Zafar, Muhammad Asad Javed, Ashraf Aly Hassan, Khalid Mehmood, and Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie
Combining Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction and Anammox for Treatment of Nitrate-Rich Wastewater: A Short Review, Xinyi Zou, Chongjun Chen, Changhong Wang, Qun Zhang, Zhuowei Yu, Haiping Wu, Chao Zhuo, and Tian C. Zhang
2020
TAMU-POST: An analysis tool for vehicle impact on in-line pile group, Mojdeh Asadollahi Pajouh and Briaud Jean-Louis