• Estimating snow mass in North America through assimilation of AMSR-E brightness temperature observations using the Catchment land surface model and support vector machines 

  Xue, Yuan; Forman, Barton; Reichle, Rolf (2018-04-16)

  To estimate snow mass across North America, multi-frequency brightness temperature (Tb) observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) from 2002 to 2011 were assimilated ...

• PARAMETRIC STUDY OF SOIL DRYING IN THE FIELD FOR COMPACTION QUALITY ASSURANCE 

  Afsharikia, Zahra (2017)

  Moving towards modulus based methods of soil compaction quality assurance using lightweight deflectometers (LWD) requires evaluation of the LWD measured modulus in the field. The resilient modulus of geomaterials is not ...

• Seismic Design Optimization of Steel Structures Using Particle Swarm Algorithm 

  Middha, Parteek (2017)

  Earthquakes are one of the most devastating and expensive natural disasters in the world. Economical and earthquake-resistant design remains a challenge for structural engineers. This study explores the optimal design of ...

• CRACK DETECTION BY DIFFERENTIAL LASER THERMOGRAPHY 

  Benedetto, Rachel Ostrow (2017)

  Crack formation can be detrimental to the integrity of structures. Cracks can be difficult to detect, especially sub-surface cracks. This thesis creates a framework using laser point thermography, curve fitting, and ...

• ANALYSES OF INFLUENTIAL FACTORS FOR ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF PEAK RATE FACTORS AND TIMES TO PEAK OF UNIT HYDROGRAPHS 

  Zhao, Tianming (2017)

  Despite the availability of a number of sophisticated hydrologic models, the unit hydrograph (UH) is still one of the most widely used models for computing runoff hydrographs. The two-parameter gamma UH can be fully ...

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