UMD Theses and Dissertations

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New submissions to the thesis/dissertation collections are added automatically as they are received from the Graduate School. Currently, the Graduate School deposits all theses and dissertations from a given semester after the official graduation date. This means that there may be up to a 4 month delay in the appearance of a given thesis/dissertation in DRUM.

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    Dust To Dust: Embracing Entropy Through Organic Building Materials
    (2022) Muir, Ryan; Williams, Brittany; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Architecture has had a complicated relationship with time. Some architects have chosen to embrace time, while many have chosen to oppose it. Fearful that passing time would overcome their work, many modern architects attempted to suppress its effects. In the commercial realm of today, that fear can largely be characterized by not wanting to be “behind the times”. Commercialism has bred a practice of planned obsolescence that reflects the dynamic, living organism of society, but fails to see buildings themselves as organisms. Our building practices have contributed to an immense amount of waste that is detrimental to our environment. This thesis will test architecture’s ability to embrace the process of entropy through organic building materials and explore the scalability of these methods in the “res-economica” of Washington, DC. This will be applied to three different affordable housing and homeless supportive housing typologies.
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    CATALOG OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES FOR MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL PAVEMENT DESIGN
    (2011) Li, Rui; Schwartz, Charles W.; Civil Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The new pavement design methodology is based on mechanistic-empirical principles that are expected to be used in parallel with and eventually replace the current empirical pavement design procedures. The new mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) requires greater quantities and quality of input data. Material characterization for the mechanistic-empirical approach, the focus of this thesis, is significantly more fundamental and extensive than in the current empirically-based AASHTO Design Guide. The objective of the thesis is to develop an organized database of material properties for the most common paving materials used in Maryland. A comprehensive material property database in Microsoft Access 2007 has been developed. The database is initially populated with all information received from SHA. It provides complete data management tools for adding and managing future data as well as data display screens for MEPDG. Recommendations for future material testing for Maryland are also provided.