• THE EFFECTS OF UNMITIGATED IDLE TIME ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS AS A STRUCTURAL PROTECTIVE SYSTEM. 

  Khan, Sami Ur-Rahman (2018)

  This thesis discusses the long-term performance degradation of seismic protective systems due to age and inactivity (termed “idle time effects”). Over the lifetime of a structures there is the potential for a significant ...

• DEVELOPING AN IN SITU SPRAYABLE BIOSCAFFOLD WITH ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES AS AN EMERGENCY BURN WOUND DRESSING 

  Hunter, Joseph William (2018)

  Commercially available silver dressings and their associated application/removal protocols suffer from several serious drawbacks, including: inability to monitor the burn wound beneath the opaque dressing, high costs, ...

• INCREASED INDIVIDUAL SIZE AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON EMERGENCY EVACUATION SCENARIOS 

  Ahrens, Katherine (2018)

  The increase in human body size due to obesity and overweight conditions is recognized as becoming more prevalent throughout the world. The effect which increased body size and weight has on movement has been examined from ...

• THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACE PREPARATION ON BOND STRENGTH BETWEEN CONCRETE OVERLAY AND UNDERLAY IN PRESTRESSED SLAB BRIDGES 

  Singaraju, Krishna (2018)

  The objectives of this research were to experimentally study the influence of surface preparation on bond strength between concrete overlay and underlay in pre-stressed slab bridges and to explore the best practice for ...

• HYDROXYAPATITE HOLLOW FIBER FOR OIL-WATER SEPARATION 

  QIN, Dongchang (2018)

  Massive oily water produced in oil and gas industry is a catastrophe to the oil and water sources on the earth. Ceramic membrane separation is a promising approach to obtain clean water and oil fuel from oily water to ...

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