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The Effect of Simulated Mangrove Forest Width on Shoreline Stabilization at Multiple Tidal Water Levels
(2021-05)Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) forests protect hundreds of miles of Florida’s shorelines from erosion and wave damage associated with severe storms and daily wave action. Shorelines are often protected from erosion with ... -
Behavior of selective oxygen functional groups upon hydrothermal carbonization and pyrolysis of biomass and their roles on selective applications
(2021-05)Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a thermochemical process where biomass is treated in water under high temperature and corresponding vapor pressure. During HTC, biomass undergoes a series of reactions including hydrolysis, ... -
Impact of Antecedent Wetness and Rainfall Spatial Variability on Design Floods
(2021-05)In the absence of long hydrologic records, water engineering design application rely primarily on the concept of design storms and subsequently design floods. However, despite the long-lasting use of these approaches there ... -
Correlation Between Air Quality Index and Traffic Volume Using Internet of Things (IoT)
(2020-12)In highly populated world areas, such as metropolises, hazardous air pollution has been linked to the presence of damaging climate and health issues, which are becoming increasingly common. Indeed, a major problem facing ... -
Existence of Ballistic Capture Transfer Trajectories from Trans-Lunar Injection to Lunar Polar Orbit for all Lunar Phases at Time of Departure
(2020-12)This dissertation reveals several families of trajectories that can reduce the change in velocity(ΔV) required to transfer from trans-lunar injection (TLI) to a lunar polar circular orbit with 100 km altitude by up to 26.5% ... -
A Modified Peng-Robinson Cubic Equation of State Based on Bayesian Framework
(2020-12)Peng-Robinson cubic equations of state (PR-EoSs) as one of the most popular two-parameter cubic equations of state (2P-EoSs) are widely used to calculate thermodynamic properties of pure substances and their mixtures. ... -
Modern Standard Arabic Speech Recognition: Using Formants Measurements to Extract Vowels from Arabic Words' Consonant-Vowel-Consonant-Vowel Structure
(2020-12)Arabic texts suffer from missing diacritics (short vowels) which become obstacles for new learners. Speech Recognition is the translation of words spoken to text through intelligent computer programs. As of today, it has ... -
Polymer-based Capacitive Gas Sensor for Machine Olfaction
(2020-12)Transferring human abilities and knowledge to machines has been the focus of decades of work by scientists and engineers. With the progress in computation power and algorithms such as artificial neural networks, machines ... -
Nonlinear Frequency Tuning of Pre-curved Micro-scale Beams
(2020-12)Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have many common advantages in applications due to their small size and ability to integrate with electronics. For MEMS with vibrating elements, other advantages include their tunable ... -
Development of a Design Method for Bonded Concrete Pavement Overlays
(2020-12)Several asphalt pavements prematurely reached the end of their design life due to wheel loading has dramatically increased on highways. Therefore, transportation and highways agencies often endeavor to provide high-performance ... -
Salt Transport to Saturated Porous Media under Unstable Conditions: Experimental, Analytical, and Numerical Studies
(2020-12)There are three main transport mechanisms that occur under unstable flow conditions: a) The transport of saltwater from the overlying salt source to the underlying porous media, b) the transport of an equivalent volume of ... -
Extreme Response Analysis of a Site-specific Offshore Wind Turbine and Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization
(2020-12)Offshore floating wind turbines have been developed in deep water where bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines are cost-prohibitive. Gulf of Maine has one of the greatest potential wind energy on the east coast. A detailed ... -
Evaluation of Accumulated Strain from both Cyclic Triaxial and Static Creep Tests on Unbound Pavement Materials
(2020-12)In this research, the behavior of Limerock (LR) aggregates blended with different reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) materials were investigated as an unbound base layer. Various combinations of LR and RAP, including 100%LR, ... -
Improving long-term vascular graft viability using peritoneal pre-implantation and epsin-mimetic peptides
(2020-12)The primary goal of this project was to produce and develop a tissue-engineered small-diameter vascular graft which can replace the arteries and function well for long-term grafting. Implanting an electrospun tubular conduit ... -
Cloud Computing Service Interoperability and Architectural Concepts
(2020-12)Today’s market with a vast number of Cloud-computing providers creates a challenge for practical cooperation between the various provider cloud service platforms. Not only does Cloud interoperability provide this needed ... -
A Fast and Exact Motif Enumeration Algorithm for Dynamic Networks
(2020-12)From social to biological networks, prior research in complex networks have demonstrated the importance of the frequency and distribution of different types of motifs to important network functions and properties. A network ... -
Biometric Face Skintone Data Augmentation Using A Generative Adversarial Network
(2020-12)Researchers seek methods to increase the accuracy and efficiency in identifying an individual using facial biometric systems. Factors like skin color, which may affect the accuracy of facial recognition, need to be ... -
Investigating the Use of 3D Printing Pens for Additive Manufacturing Component Repair
(2020-08)The work presented in this thesis provides fundamental research for investigating the application of3D printing pens for the repair of components manufactured by 3D printers. Test specimens of three different print ... -
Graphene Surface Plasmon Applications in Designing Novel Nano-Heterostructure Arrays
(2020-08)Graphene is the flat monolayer of carbon atoms constructing a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice with an exotic mechanic, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. Interestingly, the graphene has been experimentally ... -
A Finite State Automata-Based Description of Device States for Function Modeling of Multi-State Technical Devices
(2020-12)Many modern and innovative design problems require multi-modal, reconfigurable solutions. Function modeling (FM) is a common tool used to explore solutions in early stages of mechanical engineering design. Currently, ...
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