On 3 March 1985, a major earthquake occurred near the coast of central Chile. The resort city of Vina del Mar is of particular interest from an engineering standpoint because approximately 400 moderate-rise reinforced ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) sponsored and hosted the first National Safety Performance Function Summit on July 29 and 30, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois. ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) sponsored and hosted the 2012 National State Safety Engineers and Traffic Engineers Peer-to-Peer Workshop on November 14 ...

To provide a computational framework suitable for the solution of these problems, this work also describes the parallel implementation of a nonlinear, implicit finite element code. The implementation employs an explicit ...

Prototype-scale hydrodynamic modelings were first conducted to evaluate the structure design of the Calumet High-Level Influent Pumping Station (CHLIPS). The complex geometries were discretized into unstructured tetrahedral ...

Chemical Transport Models (CTMs) are important tools for air quality research, and it is of the same importance to provide accurate weather information as input data to CTMs. In this thesis, the Weather Research and Forecast ...

This work contains analysis of directionally oriented material with heterogeneity across the spacial domain, between materials, and over time. Composite material containing directionally oriented material have become a ...

Effective water resources management typically relies on numerical models to analyze groundwater flow and solute transport processes. Since the important hydrogeological parameters of these models (e.g., hydraulic conductivity) ...

Current and future food security are threatened by impending population growth, increasing demand for resource intensive foods, and climate change. Coping strategies at various scales have been proposed to help food security. ...

Water shortages and flooding have caused large property losses and endangered human lives in many areas. Rapid and informed response is needed to ensure effective water management, including reliable and immediate data ...