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Characterization And Lime Stabilization Studies On Artificially Lead Contaminated Soils
(2011-07-08)
Hazardous waste substances are solid, semi-solid or non-aqueous liquids that exhibit characteristics of corrosivity, reactivity, ignitability, toxicity and infectious property. Major available options for management of ...
A Smooth Finite Element Method Via Triangular B-Splines
(2013-07-25)
A triangular B-spline (DMS-spline)-based finite element method (TBS-FEM) is proposed along with possible enrichment through discontinuous Galerkin, continuous-discontinuous Galerkin finite element (CDGFE) and stabilization ...
Improved Numerical And Numeric-Analytic Schemes In Nonlinear Dynamics And Systems With Finite Rotations
(2010-04-13)
This thesis deals with different computational techniques related to some classes of nonlinear response regimes of engineering interest. The work is mainly divided into two parts. In the first part different numeric-analytic ...
Geotechnical Site Characterization And Liquefaction Evaluation Using Intelligent Models
(2009-12-09)
Site characterization is an important task in Geotechnical Engineering. In situ tests based on standard penetration test (SPT), cone penetration test (CPT) and shear wave velocity survey are popular among geotechnical ...
Dynamic State Estimation Techniques For Identification Of Parameters Of Finite Element Structural Models
(2010-04-12)
The thesis outlines the development and application of a few novel dynamic state estimation based methods for estimation of parameters of vibrating engineering structures. The study investigates strategies for data fusion ...
Fracture And Fatigue Behavior Of Concrete-Concrete Interfaces Using Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation And Micro-Indentation Techniques
(2011-04-05)
Currently, the maintenance and repair of civil engineering infrastructures (especially bridges and highways) have become increasingly important, as these structures age and deteriorate. Interface between two different mixes ...
Studies On The Evaluation Of Thermal Stress Intensity Factors For Bi-Material Interface Cracks
(2010-07-29)
Components of turbines, combustion chambers, multi-layered electronic packaging structures and nuclear reactors are subjected to transient thermal loads during their service life. In the presence of a discontinuity like ...
Studies On Application Of Control Systems For Urban Water Networks
(2010-09-21)
Management and supply of water in an urban water distribution system is a complex process, which include various complexities like pressure variations across the network depending on topography, demand variations depending ...
Uncertainty Modeling For River Water Quality Control
(2010-08-30)
Waste Load Allocation (WLA) in rivers refers to the determination of required pollutant fractional removal levels at a set of point sources of pollution to ensure that water quality standards are maintained throughout the ...
Development Of Methods For Structural Reliability Analysis Using Design And Analysis Of Computer Experiments And Data Based Extreme Value Analysis
(2010-08-26)
The work reported in this thesis is in the area of computational modeling of reliability of engineering structures. The emphasis of the study is on developing methods that are suitable for analysis of large-scale structures ...