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(2019-07-15)Many uncertainties still exist regarding cloud droplet evolution and the production of precipitation from clouds, including the effects of both shortwave and longwave (infrared) thermal radiation. The potential importance ...
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(2017-10-13)The North American rail system requires billions of dollars annually to be maintained in proper working order. Therefore, it is critical that maintenance is performed on the right components, at the right time, and in the ...
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(2017-04-28)Railway ballast serves as a major structural and drainage component of railroad track, but is known to degrade over time. This progressive degradation increases the amount of finer particles within the ballast over time, ...
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(University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1985-02)A method is presented for evaluating the effect of soil-structure interaction on the dynamic response of nonlinear building-foundation syste~s subjected to random seismic excitations. Uncertainties in the building-foundation ...
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(Mid-America Earthquake Center, 2007-09)This report describes the results of research to develop a way to rapidly assess the fragility of structures and geostructures over a specified region. Structural performance under future earthquakes cannot be predicted ...
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(Mid-America Earthquake Center at the University of Illinois, 2009-08)A number of destructive earthquakes have occurred in the central United States on the New Madrid Fault at the beginning of the 19th century. In the eight central U.S. states included in this investigation, rivers intersect ...
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(2008-05)Risk assessment of urban infrastructure networks under natural and man-made hazards is often performed by repeated computational simulations based on random samples of hazard scenarios and corresponding component status. ...
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(1990)Determination of the in situ shear strength of granular materials is an expensive and time consuming endeavor using traditional "detailed" evaluation techniques. The development of several "rapid" evaluation devices has ...
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(University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1967-06)
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The Reaction of Aqueous Free Chlorine With Organic Compounds Adsorbed on Granular Activated Carbon (1980)The reaction of organic compounds with aqueous chlorine was examined before and after adsorption on an activated carbon bed. An extract of humic acid from peat soil was used as the organic compound in the first part of the ...
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(2001)Built upon modern option pricing theory and game theory, this thesis presents a quantitative BOT model that can dynamically evaluate the value of a BOT investment from the perspectives of the developer and government, and ...
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(Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2011-06)Wireless smart sensor networks have become an attractive alternative to traditional wired sensor systems in order to reduce implementation costs of structural health monitoring systems. The onboard sensing, computation, ...
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(2007-03)While the state of Illinois has been recycling Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) material into hot-mix asphalt (HMA) since 1980, there continues to be questions regarding the correct approach to design HMA with RAP. The ...
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(2004)This research combines engineering, economic, and financial methods and makes contributions in each area. Railroad maintenance strategies that rely more heavily on capital investment are more cost effective. Infrastructure ...
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(2011-08-26)Biological hydrogen production is considered one reasonable alternative for generating H2 as a fuel that can be linked to electricity production in standard fuel cells. However, the molar yields are currently too low to ...
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