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Análisis De La Estimación De Daños En Las Estructuras Por Eventos Sísmicos En El Barrio Belén Bogotá Colombia, Ángela Johana Álvarez Marín, Jhon Alexander González González

Ingeniería Civil

El trabajo de cooperación interinstitucional entre la Universidad de la Salle y la alcaldía local de La Candelaria tiene como fundamento, brindar apoyo técnico en la elaboración del informe de Análisis y estimación de daños en riesgos sísmicos en el área de influencia, teniendo como objetivo final estimar la vulnerabilidad física en la cual se encuentra actualmente el área de estudio y determinar los posibles daños a nivel de infraestructura haciendo uso del software OPENQUAKE que permite el cálculo de amenaza y riesgo sísmico a escala global de forma probabilística, con la enorme ventaja de tener un alto grado de …

Propuesta Metodológica Para El Uso De Residuos De Construcción En Sub-Bases Y Bases De Carreteras Secundarias Y Terciarias Aplicado A Un Estudio De Caso, Cristian Camilo Riveros Roa, Luisa Julieth Rojas Porras

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

Seguimiento De La Concentración De Cloro Residual En Tanque De Almacenamiento, Red De Distribución Y Tanques Residenciales En El Municipio De Fortul, Departamento De Arauca, Niray Andrés Enciso Jauregui

Ingeniería Civil

En las plantas de tratamiento de agua para el consumo humano se pueden emplear diferentes técnicas de tratamiento y de desinfección. El cloro es un químico que se emplea para la inactivación de diferentes microorganismos y su efectividad está influenciada por la concentración aplicada, tiempo de contacto, temperatura, componentes y pH del agua. En el país, existen dificultades con el monitoreo y seguimiento del Cloro Residual en los acueductos, siendo un tema de relevancia al garantizarse la calidad del agua potable en el sistema. Según la Resolución 2115 de 2007 del Ministerio de la Protección Social y Ministerio de Ambiente, …

Elaboración De Un Manual De Laboratorio Para El Área De Estructuras De La Universidad De La Salle, Luisa María Avellaneda Ramírez, Ricardo Andrés Gómez Becerra

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

Evaluación Del Comportamiento Mecánico De Una Conexión Viga-Columna, En Perfiles De Lámina Delgada Con Un Nudo Relleno De Mortero, Elkin Fabián Pineda Ramírez

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

Correlación Entre La Resistencia Al Corte En Suelos Cohesivos Por Medio Del Viscosímetro Rotacional, Compresión Inconfinada Y Corte Directo, Néstor Julián Poveda Ciceris, Héctor Mauricio Florez Colorado

Ingeniería Civil

El suelo de Bogotá está constituido geológicamente por depósitos de arcilla debidamente formados por la desecación de un antiguo lago, con estratos intermedios y discontinuos de arenas y suelos orgánicos. Los suelos predominantes de Bogotá son arcillosos y generalmente presentan problemas para la ejecución de obras civiles ya que se trata de grandes capas de suelos relativamente blandos y compresibles. Esto obliga a realizar múltiples ensayos de laboratorio para conocer las propiedades de los suelos donde se construirá, con el fin de mitigar futuros asentamientos. El complicado comportamiento de los suelos ha generado una gran cantidad de investigaciones. Con el …

Benefit-Cost Analysis For The Supply Of Renewable Electric Energy In Zones Not Interconnected Case Study Miraflores Boyacá, David Alejandro Barrera López

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

Identificación De Las Oportunidades De Uso De La Electro-Movilidad Fluvial En Colombia. Caso De Estudio: Embalse De Prado, Tolima, Valentina Acosta Herrera, María Paula Betancourt Mora

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

Evaluación Al Deslizamiento En El Rancho Los Tres Potrillos, Área Del Municipio De Chipata, Santander, Daniel Francisco Ibañez Alvarado, Juan Sebastian Cruz Florez

Ingeniería Civil

No abstract provided.

ทัศนคติของนักเรียนต่อการใช้งานทางข้ามบริเวณโรงเรียน, ณัฐสัญญ์ ปัญญาวิสุทธิชัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เขตบริเวณโรงเรียนเป็นพื้นที่ที่มีจำนวนผู้เดินเท้าจำนวนมากโดยเฉพาะนักเรียน การข้ามถนนในบริเวณโรงเรียนที่มีจำนวนมากนำมาซึ่งโอกาสในการเกิดอุบัติเหตุระหว่างการข้ามถนน งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาปัจจัยสำคัญที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อทัศนคติในการข้ามถนนและต้องการลดอุบัติเหตุที่อาจเกิดขึ้นกับนักเรียนในอนาคต โดยได้รวบรวมทัศนคติของนักเรียนต่อการใช้งานทางข้ามบริเวณโรงเรียน ด้วยการใช้แบบสอบถามข้อมูลทัศนคติในการข้ามถนนและประสบการณ์ในการข้ามถนนบริเวณโรงเรียน นอกจากนี้งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ยังศึกษาทัศนคติด้านความปลอดภัยในการข้ามถนนภายใต้สถานการณ์สมมติ โดยพิจารณาองค์ประกอบ 4 ปัจจัยได้แก่ สัญญาณไฟคนข้ามถนน สัญลักษณ์เตือนผู้ขับขี่ ทางแยกและสิ่งกีดขวางบริเวณทางข้าม ในส่วนของทัศนคติในการข้ามถนนและประสบการณ์การข้ามถนนวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยใช้ Principal Component Analysis (PCA) ในการแบ่งกลุ่ม เพื่อนำไปหาความสัมพันธ์ของความรู้สึกปลอดภัยในการข้ามถนนเทียบกับตัวแปรอื่นโดยการใช้การวิเคราะห์ถดถอยแบบเส้นตรง ผลการศึกษาจากรวบรวมข้อมูลนักเรียนโดยการใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นจำนวน 430 ชุดพบว่า เพศหญิงจะมีทัศนคติต่อการข้ามถนนที่ปลอดภัยกว่า ได้รับประสบการณ์ในการข้ามถนนที่แย่กว่า สำหรับการวิเคราะห์สถานการณ์จำลองพบว่า สัญญาณไฟคนข้ามถนนเป็นองค์ประกอบที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อความปลอดภัยในการข้ามถนนมากที่สุด นอกจากนี้ยังพบว่าทางข้ามที่มีทางแยกและสิ่งกีดขวางร่วมกัน จะมีความปลอดภัยในการข้ามถนนต่ำกว่าทางข้ามอื่น

An Application Of Line Of Balance And Building Information Modeling For Optimal Resource And Schedule: A Case Study Of An Elevated Highway Construction, Thanakon Uthai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Project scheduling is an essential tool to support construction operations completing the project under limited time and cost. The linear infrastructure project such as elevated highway construction involves a large scale of working area and complexity of management. Recently, schedules are planned manually based on planners’ experience and intuition which may consume time and lead to human-errors. Moreover, the presentations of schedule by using the existing methods dose not cover the overview of projects in various aspects. The objective of this research is to establish an application of Line of Balance (LOB) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) for optimal resource …

Modified Response Spectrum Analysis For Computing Seismic Demands Of Multi-Tower Building Sharing A Common Podium, Tarek Youssef

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

To design irregular tall buildings, performance-based design (PBD) approach, which requires nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA), is the most accurate method. However, PBD approach is not always used in the current design practice because of its complexity, and as allowed in ASCE 7-16, design engineer can use code-based approach such as response spectrum analysis (RSA) procedure. This paper aims to investigate the accuracy of RSA procedure when applied to irregular tall buildings, and in particular for multi-tower buildings sharing a common podium. Also, a modified response spectrum analysis (MRSA) procedure previously proposed for computing shear demand in regular tall buildings, …

The Performance Of Automatic Adaptive Edge-Based Smoothed Finite Element Method In Engineering Mechanics Applications, Vu Hoang Le

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The thesis investigates the performance of an edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) combined with an automatic mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm to provide the solutions of in-plane elastic engineering mechanics applications. The ES-FEM adopts a strain smoothing technique over the edges adjoining the two adjacent triangular-shape meshes, whilst a layer of singular yet compatible five-node elements in addition to standard three-node ES-FEs can be employed to overcome the problems associated with stress singularity. The proposed framework enables the effective model construction of realistic engineering structures with complex geometry at modest computational resources. The AMR algorithm adopts the newest node bisection …

แบบจำลองพฤติกรรมการเลือกใช้ยานพาหนะร่วมกัน: กรณีศึกษาผู้ใช้รถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างในกรุงเทพมหานคร, วีรชัย โสธนนันทน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การบริการมอเตอร์ไซค์แชริ่งจะเป็นทางเลือกในเดินทางที่จะช่วยยกระดับคุณภาพชีวิตและเป็นทางเลือกการเดินทางของประชาชนในกรุงเทพมหานคร งานวิจัยนี้จึงมุ่งเน้นวิเคราะห์หาปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจเปลี่ยนรูปแบบการเดินทางของผู้โดยสารที่ใช้รถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างมาเป็นการใช้บริการมอเตอร์ไซค์แชริ่ง โดยเจาะจงกลุ่มตัวอย่างเป็นผู้โดยสารที่ใช้บริการรถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างเพื่อเชื่อมต่อกับระบบรถไฟฟ้าขนส่งมวลชนในพื้นที่ย่านศูนย์กลางทางธุรกิจของกรุงเทพมหานครจำนวน 349 ตัวอย่าง โดยใช้วิธีเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลเชิงกล่าวอ้างด้วยการจำลองสถานการณ์สมมติ 6 สถานการณ์และสร้างแบบจำลองโลจิสติคทวินามบนพื้นฐานของทฤษฎีอรรถประโยชน์ นำข้อมูลมาวิเคราะห์ทางสถิติด้วยโปรแกรม Rstudio จากผลของการศึกษาพบว่าตัวแปรที่มีอิทธิพลเชิงบวกต่อการเลือกใช้บริการมอเตอร์ไซค์แชริ่งอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ ได้แก่ เวลาและค่าใช้จ่ายของรถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้าง ความเต็มใจจ่ายในการใช้บริการ ระยะเวลาเดินที่ยอมรับได้ ความถี่ในการใช้บริการรถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างต่อสัปดาห์ การมีใบอนุญาตขับขี่รถจักรยานยนต์ สำหรับตัวแปรระยะทางในการเดินทาง สถานะภาพการสมรส จำนวนรถจักรยานยนต์และจำนวนรถยนต์ในครอบครองครอบครองส่งผลเชิงลบต่อการเลือกใช้บริการมอเตอร์ไซค์แชริ่ง โดยมูลค่าเวลาในการเดินทางของผู้โดยสารรถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างของกลุ่มตัวอย่างมีค่าเท่ากับ 5.63 บาทต่อนาที

Decision Support Tools For Parking Management On University Campuses, Okan Gurbuz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

University campuses generate and attract trips with unique characteristics. Most universities are constantly challenged by the parking congestion issues. To manage campus parking infrastructure, most universities have established parking departments. This department is referred as the University Parking Office (UPO) in this Dissertation. There is no methodology or tool to assist the UPOs in their decision-making process. This Dissertation focuses on student parking and has developed models and methodologies as decision support tools to assist UPOs in managing student parking on campuses.

This Dissertation answers six Research Questions related to parking management on university campuses: (1) How many students are …

Structural Design Of Complex Components, Armando Antonio Ochoa

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and the Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research (cSETR) is determined to develop a launch vehicle that is made completely of additive manufacturing materials, has the capability to transport a 100 lb payload to low earth orbit (LEO) as well as completing the design of a strucutral steel mobile launch stand that has the capability of withstanding the launch vehicle's static and dynamic loadings. The project will consist of carbon composite components to reduce weight while maintaining efficiency, strucutral steel components to resist extreme loadings and maintain strucutral shape, and lastly …

Investigation Of Coastal Vegetation Dynamics And Persistence In Response To Hydrologic And Climatic Events Using Remote Sensing, Subrina Tahsin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Coastal Wetlands (CW) provide numerous imperative functions and provide an economic base for human societies. Therefore, it is imperative to track and quantify both short and long-term changes in these systems. In this dissertation, CW dynamics related to hydro-meteorological signals were investigated using a series of LANDSAT-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data and hydro-meteorological time-series data in Apalachicola Bay, Florida, from 1984 to 2015. NDVI in forested wetlands exhibited more persistence compared to that for scrub and emergent wetlands. NDVI fluctuations generally lagged temperature by approximately three months, and water level by approximately two months. This analysis provided insight …

Evaluating Shallow Mixing Protocols As Application Methods For Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation Targeting Expansive Soil Treatment, Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Tasria Rahman, Malcolm Burbank, Arif Ali Baig Moghal

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Expansive soils, also known as swell-shrink soils, undergo substantial volumetric changes due to moisture fluctuations from seasonal variations. These volumetric changes cause millions of dollars in damages annually. Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) is a promising soil improvement technique, which uses urease producing bacteria to precipitate calcium carbonate. In this study, a stabilization alternative for expansive soils was studied using MICP. Specifically, indigenous bacteria were stimulated by mixing enrichment and cementation solutions with expansive natural soils to precipitate calcium carbonate and make soil stronger and less expansive. This study examined three expansive soils with varying plasticity and mineralogical characteristics. Two …

Coupled Numerical Analysis Of Variations In The Capacity Of Driven Energy Piles In Clay, Arvin Farid, Daniel P. Zimmerman

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Energy piles are an emerging alternative for the reduction of energy consumption to heat and cool buildings. Most of the research to date has focused on thermodynamic properties or axial and radial stress and strain of piles. This paper focuses on the effects of temperature fluctuation on the capacity of driven energy piles in clayey soils. Consolidation of clay surrounding driven piles affects the pile capacity (i.e., set up in clay). The heating and cooling periods of energy piles can create the excess pore-water pressure (EPWP, u_e) or relax the existing one (e.g., due to pile driving or …

Towards Multiple Model Approach To Bridge Deterioration, Jin A. Collins

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) marked the start of a new era in transportation in the United States. ISTEA required transportation agencies to take a proactive approach to planning and management of their assets. This included requirements for managing pavement, bridges, safety, congestion, public transportation, and intermodal systems. For horizontal transportation assets (i.e., bridges and pavement), deterioration modeling is an essential tool (Yanev and Chen 1993). Since ISTEA, Bridge Management Systems (BMS) have been utilized to inform decision-making regarding bridge projects such as maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement (MR&R) under financial limitations (Agrawal, Kawaguchi, and Chen 2010). …

Assessment Of Point Of Use (Pou) Systems For Reducing Health Risks Associated With Drinking Water Along The U.S.-Mexico Colonias In The Paso Del Norte Region, Varinia Viridiana Felix Parra

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In the Paso del Norte Region along the U.S. Mexico Border, there are more than 5,000 families living in impoverished communities known as colonias that lack access to basic infrastructure services such as a public water system. These depend on hauling trucks that deliver water into their storage tanks. Water storage practices by colonia residents on both sides of the border pose an enormous risk for waterborne disease outbreaks and heavy metal contamination because the water quality can decrease rapidly due to volatilization of the residual chlorine, intrusion of rainfall and air-laden dust. Since connection to centralized water treatment and …

Artificial Intelligence In Wet Weather Infrastructure, Matt Hammerstein

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Effective management of runoff from rain and snowmelt is critical as increased water flows can negatively affect efficiency and reliability at treatment facilities, as well as potentially damage property or the natural environment. Implementation of artificial intelligence for real-time decision making and support in wet weather infrastructure is a recent technological development; as such, a problem has emerged: experience and knowledge of best practices for successful implementation is limited. Artificial intelligence is being employed to inform operational decisions that are intended to improve the efficiency and reliability of physical wet weather infrastructure. The goal of municipalities and utilities in utilizing …

Artificial Intelligence Of Stormwater Operations, Eric Bednar

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The current infrastructure in our country will not be able to adequately support the growing demands of an exponentially increasing population. A rise in population contributes to a greater service demand necessary to treat sanitary sewer waste which in many cases contributes to the flow of combined sewers. When it comes to managing these combined sewers, rain and the snowmelt caused from climate changes are major factors that need to be addressed. Some water treatment facilities do not have the ability to treat the capacities or peak flows that a system experiences, resulting in combined sewer overflows which are both …

Artificial Intelligence In Wastewater Treatment Facilities: Implementing Practical New Technologies For The End User, Jordan Spano

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Design phase operator input can prove useful; however, it is not essential in every application, as Akron’s treatment plant implemented AI to increase treatment capacity without design-phase operator input. They implemented a system flight simulator, a few hours training, and have communicated with the designer to make system tweaks as needed. In larger applications, the owner may benefit greatly by incorporating design input from operational staff. Those representing a municipality as a project owner for a treatment plant upgrade should always maintain an active role in the design of smart water infrastructure. They must keep the operators in mind when …

Tsunamigenic Potential Of The Baiyun Slide Complex In The South China Sea, Linlin Li, Fengyan Shi, Gangfeng Ma, Qiang Qiu

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The Baiyun slide complex contains geological evidence for some of the largest landslide ever discovered in the continental slopes of the South China Sea. High-resolution seismic data suggest that a variety of landslides with varied scales have occurred repeatedly in this area. The largest landslide reconstructed from bathymetric and seismic data has an estimated spatial coverage of ~5,500 km² and a conservative volume of ~1,035 km³. Here, using geomorphological and geotechnical data, we construct a series of probable landslide scenarios and assess their tsunamigenic capacity. By treating the slides as deformable mudflows, we simulate the dynamics of …

Modeling Of Wrong Way Driving Entries And Developing Innovative Approaches For Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Advanced Wrong Way Driving Countermeasures, Md Imrul Kayes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Wrong-way driving (WWD) is a hazardous behavior on interstates, toll roads, and other high-speed limited access facilities. Since WWD crashes are rare, recent researchers have studied WWD events such as WWD 911 calls and WWD citations to understand the overall nature and trend of WWD. It is very difficult to build credible statistical models based solely on crashes due to the small sample size since these are only 3% of all crashes. Modeling of WWD non-crash events can result in more accurate models. A model was developed for Florida limited access facilities to identify roadway factors and traffic characteristics of …

Balancing Mass Transit Ridership Through Land Use Development, Achara Limmonthol

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The utmost utility of the transit system can be supported by the balance of ridership. It is not only gaining more operational benefits but also enhancing the efficiency of the system as a whole. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is defined as an integration between land use and transportation, which focuses on the station areas. Land use characteristics are the essential factors that affect trip generation and trip attraction. Some types of land use generate trips mainly during peak hours. Meanwhile, some other types generate trips during off-peak hours. This dissertation therefore focuses on the balancing mass transit ridership through land …

Finite Element Modeling Of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls Built With Welded Wire Wall Panels, Dejuan G. Solan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, a finite element modeling of Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls using welded wire wall panels was performed. The implementation of finite element modeling and analysis proved to be quite efficient in simulating the three-dimensional behavior of wall panels that are a part of MSE walls. The comprehensive finite element model included defined concrete and steel material properties in order to present both the realistic behaviors of each component in the model as well as better facilitating and increasing the accuracy of the simulation of numerous finite element analysis (FEA) cases. FEA was employed to simulate welded wire …

Decoding And Optimizing Magnesium Phosphate Binders For Additive Construction Applications, Hashem Khaled Almashaqbeh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This work aims to give more insight about the physical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical performance of the MPC paste composites. Our primary outcome from this research is to improve the MPC composites with different additives, including boric acid, GnP, and acetic acid for potential utilization in 3DcP applications. Furthermore, Martian and Lunar regolith simulants can be mixed with the MPC composites to create mortars as a possible extraterrestrial 3DP in-situ construction material mainly to support the NASA habitation exploration mission.

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Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.