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Real-Time Health Monitoring System For Mast-Arm Sign Support Structures, Andrew David Smith
Real-Time Health Monitoring System For Mast-Arm Sign Support Structures, Andrew David Smith
Master's Theses (2009 -)
There has been an ongoing study conducted by Marquette University and supported by the Wisconsin Highway Research Program that is seeking to understand the risk of fatigue-induced fracture in the connections of mast-arm sign support structures. This study has been brought on by recent problems encountered with the connections contained in, and the in-service performance of, several cantilevered mast-arm sign support structures. A resulting recommendation of phase one in this effort was to monitoring an in-service cantilevered mast-arm sign support structure.
The health monitoring system developed in this thesis effort includes a grouping of strain gages (full-bridge arrangements) positioned around …
Perpetual Pavement Analysis For The Marquette Interchange Instrumentation Project, Nicholas James Hornyak
Perpetual Pavement Analysis For The Marquette Interchange Instrumentation Project, Nicholas James Hornyak
Dissertations (1934 -)
With the emergence of the mechanistic-empirical pavement design process, development of pavements rely on the structural response and fatigue characteristics of pavement materials due to traffic loads. In the past, pavement design has been almost entirely based on empirical data. One area of interest in designing hot-mix asphalt (HMA) pavements is the fatigue life of the pavement, which has been shown to be dependent on the horizontal strain in the pavement.
This research is focused on measuring the structural response of a pavement located within the Marquette Interchange Project in order to analyze fatigue behavior with great detail. Virtually all …