- IDEALS Home
- →
- College of Engineering
- →
- Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- →
- Browse Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering by Title
Browse Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering by Title
Now showing items 2261-2280 of 3150
-
(2015-12-03)Researchers have recently demonstrated the capabilities of microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation to fill and seal cracks in cementitious materials. However, the mechanical strength of microbially-induced crack ...
application/zip
ZIP (133MB)
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(1990)The kinetic effects of the presence of one substrate on the degradation rate of the other substrate in a single-species, bisubstrate system were quantified in detail. The system consisted of a pure culture (Pseudomonas ...
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(2019-04-09)Concrete is the dominant crosstie material choice for demanding locations on heavy axle load (HAL) freight railroads with steep grades, sharp curves, and high annual gross tonnage. Concrete crossties are also used in rail ...
application/pdf
PDF (6MB)
-
(2015-05-01)As higher demands are placed on North American railroad infrastructure by heavy haul traffic, it is increasingly important to understand the factors affecting the magnitude and distribution of load imparted to concrete ...
application/pdf
PDF (4MB)
-
(2019-04-23)Minimizing the release of nutrients from municipal Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRF) and runoff is vital to reducing nutrient pollutants in waterways. In the United States, municipal WRRF implement phosphorus (P) ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
(2015-07-24)Catastrophes, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, exemplify how accidents that damage the environment affect society in ways that exceed human and property losses. ...
application/pdf
PDF (735kB)
-
(2019-12-03)Railroad safety analysis encompasses several areas, one of which is freight train risk analysis. There are various types of freight train accidents including derailments, collisions, highway-rail grade crossing incidents, ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
(2017-12-06)The current methodology for prioritizing highway-rail grade crossing (HRGC) warning system upgrades focuses on the likelihood of collisions and highway user casualties at crossings. However, these two metrics do not encompass ...
application/pdf
PDF (9MB)
-
(2018-04-26)Railroads play a critical role in the transportation and economic prosperity of North America. Train safety has improved considerably over the past decade. However, with the large volume of traffic, accidents still occur. ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
(2019-06-27)The overarching goal of this dissertation was to further the development of alternative (i.e., anaerobic and phototrophic) wastewater treatment technologies to fully realize the potential chemical energy of wastewater and ...
application/pdf
PDF (3MB)
-
(2011-01-14)The risk associated with railroad transportation of hazardous materials is an ongoing subject of interest to the transportation industries, the government, and the public. A variety of approaches have been considered or ...
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(2010-05-14)The main objectives of this dissertation were: (i) to develop experimental and analytical procedures to quantify different physico-chemical properties of the ultra-thin (~ 100 nm) active layers of reverse osmosis (RO) and ...
application/pdf
PDF (7MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (6MB)
-
(2009)An economic feasibility model that incorporates two main concepts from financial engineering to account for the uncertainty in the initial estimates of the project characteristics and ADR properties is developed. The first ...
application/pdf
PDF (12MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (11MB)
-
(2019-12-20)Quantitative sustainable design, a process of mechanistically linking design and operational decisions to sustainability indicators, can inform decision-making for water and sanitation infrastructure by enabling navigation ...
application/pdf
PDF (7MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (6MB)
-
(2013-05-24)The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) commonly uses elastomeric bearings to accommodate thermal deformations in bridges, and these bearings also have potential utility in seismic events. IDOT has developed an ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971-06)
application/pdf
PDF (9MB)
Now showing items 2261-2280 of 3150