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Electron Beam Lithography Throughput And Resolution Enhancement With Innovative Blanker Design, Junru Ruan
Electron Beam Lithography Throughput And Resolution Enhancement With Innovative Blanker Design, Junru Ruan
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) is one of the most important and most widely used methods for nano-fabrication. The primary advantage of electron beam lithography is its high resolution, and its ability to expose nanometer features without a mask. On the other hand, one of the key limitations of electron beam lithography is throughput. Slow blanking speed is one of the major bottlenecks for the system speed. In this dissertation, I will first review the prior literature of high speed blanking. Thorough theoretical and experimental studies are done on the existing designs. Physical models are built and analytical ray tracing is …
Quantum Dot Quantum Computation In Iii-V Type Semiconductor, Sanjay K. Prabhakar
Quantum Dot Quantum Computation In Iii-V Type Semiconductor, Sanjay K. Prabhakar
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Among recent proposals for next-generation, non-charge-based logic is the notion that a single electron can be trapped and spin of the electron can be manipulated through the application of gate potentials. In the thesis, there are two major contributions of the manipulation of electron spin. In regard to the first contribution, we present numerical simulations of such a spin in single electron devices for realistic asymmetric potentials in electrostatically confined quantum dot. Using analytical and numerical techniques we show that breaking in-plane rotational symmetry of the confining potential by applied gate voltage leads to a significant effect on the tuning …
Investigation Of The Threshold Voltage Shift Effect Of La2o3 On Tin/Hfo2/La2o3/Sio2/Si Stacks, Ming Di
Investigation Of The Threshold Voltage Shift Effect Of La2o3 On Tin/Hfo2/La2o3/Sio2/Si Stacks, Ming Di
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The semiconductor industry continues to scale (shrink) transistor dimensions to both increase the number of transistors per integrated circuit and their speed. One important aspect of scaling is the need to decrease the equivalent oxide thickness of the transistor gate dielectric while minimizing leakage current. Traditional thin layer SiO2 or SiOxNy films have been replaced by higher dielectric constant film stacks Here we study one example, the HfO2/La2O3/SiO2 stack. This dissertation describes an investigation of the use of La2O3 to reduce the threshold voltage of TiN/HfO2/SiO2/Si stacks (high-k/metal gate stacks). A significant aspect of this study is the determination of …
A Study Of Reticle Non-Flatness Induced Image Placement Error In Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, Sudharshanan Raghunathan
A Study Of Reticle Non-Flatness Induced Image Placement Error In Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, Sudharshanan Raghunathan
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
As the semiconductor industry continues scaling devices to smaller sizes, the need for next generation lithography technology for fabricating these small structures has always been at the forefront. Over the past few years, conventional optical lithography technology which has adopted a series of resolution enhancement techniques to support the scaling needs is expected to run out of steam in the near future. Extreme Ultra Violet lithography (EUVL) is being actively pursued by the semiconductor industry as one of the most promising next generation lithographic technologies. Most of the issues unique to EUVL arise from the use of 13.5 nm light …
Fabrication And Characterization Of Nanomaterials Grown By Electron Beam Induced Deposition Process, Juntao Li
Fabrication And Characterization Of Nanomaterials Grown By Electron Beam Induced Deposition Process, Juntao Li
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Platinum&ndash and tungsten&ndashcontaining materials were grown on bulk substrates from a variety of precursors including (CH3)3CH3C5H4Pt, W(CO)6, WF6, and Pt(PF3)4 in either a high vacuum dual beam focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope (FIB&ndashSEM) or an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM). The effects of deposition conditions on the growth kinetics, microstructure and composition of the grown materials, structural and chemical homogeneity of impurities inside the deposits as well as the resistivity were investigated.
Nanoabrasives Retention And Removal Mechanisms In Polyurethane Pads For Copper Cmp, Iftikhar Ul-Hasan
Nanoabrasives Retention And Removal Mechanisms In Polyurethane Pads For Copper Cmp, Iftikhar Ul-Hasan
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The continued reduction in integrated circuit (IC) feature size requires similar reductions in surface defectivity. A key source of surface defects in IC fabrication processes stems from nanoabrasives used in chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) processing. During CMP processing, polished surfaces are more vulnerable to defects including scratching, nanoabrasive particle adhesion and nanoabrasive agglomerate adhesion. The removal of these nano-sized particles is a priority for the IC fabrication industry and is reflected in the 2008 ITRS defect budget. However, there is insufficient technical understanding regarding the retention of residual nanoabrasives on the surfaces of the CMP pad following a CMP process and …
Design And Development Of Highly Active, Nanoengineered, Platinum Based Core-Shell Electrodes For Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Seth Louis Knupp
Design And Development Of Highly Active, Nanoengineered, Platinum Based Core-Shell Electrodes For Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Seth Louis Knupp
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Highly active nanoengineered core-shell electrocatalyst have a great potential to be used as fuel cell electrodes. They can alleviate problems related with commercial carbon supported platinum by simultaneously lowering cost while enhancing reaction kinetics and overall performance. More recently, use of nanoengineered core-shell electrode structures have showed their ability to enhance the stability and overall lifetime of the catalyst without sacrificing the electrode's performance. We studied the potential of using highly active core-shell nanoparticles supported on carbon nanomaterials as fuel cell electrodes.
Nanivid : A New Research Tool For Tissue Microenvironment Studies, Waseem Khan Raja
Nanivid : A New Research Tool For Tissue Microenvironment Studies, Waseem Khan Raja
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Metastatic tumors are heterogeneous in nature and composed of subpopulations of cells having various metastatic potentials. The time progression of a tumor creates a unique microenvironment to improve the invasion capabilities and survivability of cancer cells in different microenvironments. In the early stages of intravasation, cancer cells establish communication with other cell types through a paracrine loop and covers long distances by sensing growth factor gradients through extracellular matrices. Cellular migration both in vitro and in vivo is a complex process and to understand their motility in depth, sophisticated techniques are required to document and record events in real time. …
Optimal Design Of Trusses With Geometric Imperfections, Mehdi Jalalpour, Takeru Igusa, James K. Guest
Optimal Design Of Trusses With Geometric Imperfections, Mehdi Jalalpour, Takeru Igusa, James K. Guest
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications
The present paper focuses on optimization of trusses that have randomness in geometry that may arise from fabrication errors. The analysis herein is a generalization of a perturbation approach to topology optimization under geometric uncertainties. The main novelty in the present paper is in the consideration of potential buckling due to misaligned structural members. The paper begins with a brief review of the aforementioned perturbation approach, then proceeds with the analysis of the nonlinear effects of geometric imperfection. The paper concludes with some numerical examples.
Performance Tuning Of Streaming Applications Via Search-Space Decomposition, Shobana Padmanabhan, Roger D. Chamberlain, Yixin Chen
Performance Tuning Of Streaming Applications Via Search-Space Decomposition, Shobana Padmanabhan, Roger D. Chamberlain, Yixin Chen
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
High-performance streaming applications are typically pipelined and deployed on architecturally diverse (hybrid)systems. Developers of such applications are interested in customizing components used, so as to benefit application performance. We present an efficient and automatic technique for design-space exploration of applications in this problem domain. We solve performance tuning as an optimization problem by formulating cost functions using results from queueing theory. This results in a mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem which is NP-hard. We reduce the search complexity by decomposing the search space. We have developed a domain-specific decomposition technique using topological information of the application embodied in the queueing network …
Global Constructive Optimization Of Vascular Systems, Manfred Georg, Tobias Preusser, Horst K. Hahn
Global Constructive Optimization Of Vascular Systems, Manfred Georg, Tobias Preusser, Horst K. Hahn
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
We present a framework for the construction of vascular systems based on optimality principles of theoretical physiology. Given the position and flow distribution of end points of a vascular system, we construct the topology and positions of internal nodes to complete the vascular system in a realistic manner. Optimization is driven by intravascular volume minimization with constraints derived from physiological principles. Direct optimization of a vascular system, including topological changes, is used instead of simulating vessel growth. A good initial topology is found by extracting key information from a previously optimized model with less detail. This technique is used iteratively …
Sorting As A Streaming Application Executing On Chip Multiprocessors, Roger D. Chamberlain, Greg A. Galloway, Mark A. Franklin
Sorting As A Streaming Application Executing On Chip Multiprocessors, Roger D. Chamberlain, Greg A. Galloway, Mark A. Franklin
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Expressing concurrency in applications has always been a difficult and error-prone endeavor, yet effective utilization of multi-core processors requires that the concurrency in applications be understood. One approach to the expression of concurrency is streaming, which has shown real promise as a safe and effective method for many application classes. Here, we express a classic problem, sorting, in the streaming paradigm and explore the implications of various algorithm and architectural design parameters on the performance of the application.
Priority Assignment For Real-Time Flows In Wirelesshart Sensor-Actuator Networks, Abusayeed Saifullah, You Chenyang, Yixin Chen
Priority Assignment For Real-Time Flows In Wirelesshart Sensor-Actuator Networks, Abusayeed Saifullah, You Chenyang, Yixin Chen
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Recent years have witnessed the adoption of wireless sensor-actuator networks as a communication infrastructure for process control applications. An important enabling technology for industrial process control is WirelessHART, an open wireless sensor-actuator network standard specifically developed for process industries. A key challenge faced byWirelessHART networks is to meet the stringent real-time communication requirements imposed by feedback control systems in process industries. Fixed priority scheduling, a popular scheduling policy in real-time networks, has recently been shown to be an effective real-time transmission scheduling policy in WirelessHART networks. Priority assignment has a major impact on the schedulability of real-time flows in these …
End-To-End Delay Analysis For Fixed Priority Scheduling In Wirelesshart Networks, Abusayeed Saifullah, You Xu, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen
End-To-End Delay Analysis For Fixed Priority Scheduling In Wirelesshart Networks, Abusayeed Saifullah, You Xu, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
The WirelessHART standard has been specifically designed for real-time communication between sensor and actuator devices for industrial process monitoring and control. End-to-end communication delay analysis for WirelessHART networks is required for acceptance test of real-time data flows from sensors to actuators and for workload adjustment in response to network dynamics. In this paper, we map the scheduling of real-time periodic data flows in a WirelessHART network to real-time multiprocessor scheduling. We, then, exploit the response time analysis for multiprocessor scheduling and propose a novel method for the end-to-end delay analysis of the real-time flows that are scheduled using a fixed …
Split And Merge Functions For Supporting Multiple Processing Pipelines In Mercury Blastn, Jwalant Ahir, Jeremy Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain
Split And Merge Functions For Supporting Multiple Processing Pipelines In Mercury Blastn, Jwalant Ahir, Jeremy Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Biosequence similarity search is an important application in computational biology. Mercury BLASTN, an FPGA-based implementation of BLAST for DNA, is one of the alternatives for fast DNA sequence comparison. The re-design of BLAST into a streaming application combined with a high-throughput hardware pipeline have enabled Mercury BLAST to emerge as one of the fastest implementations of bio-sequence similarity search. This performance can be further enhanced by exploiting the data-level parallelism present within the application. Here we present a multiple FPGA-based Mercury BLASTN design in order to double the speed and throughput of DNA sequence computation. This paper describes a dual …
Toward A Two-Tier Clinical Warning System For Hospitalized Patients, Gregory Hackmann, Minmin Chen, Octav Chipara, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Marin Kollef, Thomas C. Bailey
Toward A Two-Tier Clinical Warning System For Hospitalized Patients, Gregory Hackmann, Minmin Chen, Octav Chipara, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Marin Kollef, Thomas C. Bailey
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Clinical study has found early detection and intervention to be essential for preventing clinical deterioration in patients at general hospital units. In this paper, we envision a two-tiered early warning system designed to identify the signs of clinical deterioration and provide early warning of serious clinical events. The first tier of the system automatically identifies patients at risk of clinical deterioration from existing electronic medical record databases. The second tier performs real-time clinical event detection based on real-time vital sign data collected from on-body wireless sensors attached to those high-risk patients. We employ machine-learning techniques to analyze data from both …
Optimal Design-Space Exploration Of Streaming Applications, Shobana Padmanabhan, Yixin Chen, Roger D. Chamberlain
Optimal Design-Space Exploration Of Streaming Applications, Shobana Padmanabhan, Yixin Chen, Roger D. Chamberlain
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Many embedded and scientific applications are frequently pipelined asynchronously and deployed on architecturally diverse systems to meet performance requirements and resource constraints. We call such pipelined applications streaming applications. Typically, there are several design parameters in the algorithms and architectures used that, when customized, impact the tradeoff between different metrics of application performance as well as resource utilization. Automatic exploration of this design space is the goal of this research. When using architecturally diverse systems to accelerate streaming applications, the design search space is often complex. We present a global optimization framework comprising a novel domain-specific variation of branch-and-bound that …
An Inexpensive Robot Platform For Teleoperation And Experimentation, Daniel A. Lazewatsky, William D. Smart
An Inexpensive Robot Platform For Teleoperation And Experimentation, Daniel A. Lazewatsky, William D. Smart
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Most commercially-available robots are either aimed at the research community, or are designed with a single purpose in mind. The extensive hobbyist community has tended to focus on the hardware and the low-level software aspects. We claim that there is a need for a low-cost, general-purpose robot, accessible to the hobbyist community, with sufficient computation and sensing to run ``research-grade'' software. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of such a robot. We explicitly outline our design goals, and show how a capable robot can be assembled from off-the-shelf parts, for a modest cost, by a single person …
Against All Probabilities: A Modeling Paradigm For Streaming Applications That Goes Against Common Notions, Rahav Dor
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Hardware and software design requires the right portion of skills and mental faculties. The design of a good system is an exercise in rational thinking, engineering, and art. The design process is further complicated when we aspire to build systems that exploit parallelism or are targeted to be deployed on architecturally diverse computing devices, FPGAs or GPUs to name just a few. The need to develop systems that can take advantage of computing devices beyond general purpose CPUs is real. There are several application domains and research efforts that will simply not be able to adequately perform or yield answers …
Arch: Practical Channel Hopping For Reliable Home-Area Sensor Networks, Mo Sha, Gregory Hackmann, Chenyang Lu
Arch: Practical Channel Hopping For Reliable Home-Area Sensor Networks, Mo Sha, Gregory Hackmann, Chenyang Lu
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of HAN reliability in real-world residential environments revealed significant challenges to achieving reliable performance in the face of significant and variable interference from a multitude of coexisting wireless devices. We propose the Adaptive and Robust Channel Hopping (ARCH) protocol: a lightweight receiveroriented protocol which handles the dynamics of residential environments by reactively channel hopping when channel conditions have degraded. ARCH has several key features. First, ARCH is an adaptive protocol that channel-hops based on changes in channel …
Multi-Channel Reliability And Spectrum Usage In Real Homes: Empirical Studies For Home-Area Sensor Networks, Mo Sha, Gregory Hackmann, Chenyang Lu
Multi-Channel Reliability And Spectrum Usage In Real Homes: Empirical Studies For Home-Area Sensor Networks, Mo Sha, Gregory Hackmann, Chenyang Lu
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Home area networks (HANs) consisting of wireless sensors have emerged as the enabling technology for important applications such as smart energy and assisted living. A key challenge faced by HANs is maintaining reliable operation in real-world residential environments. This paper presents two in-depth empirical studies on the wireless channels in real homes. The spectrum study analyzes the spectrum usage in the 2.4 GHz band where wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard must coexist with existing wireless devices. We characterize the ambient wireless environment in six apartments through passive spectrum analysis across the entire 2.4 GHz band over …
The Design And Implementation Of Mcflow: A Real-Time Multi-Core Aware Middleware For Dependent Task Graphs, Huang-Ming Huang, Christopher Gill, Chenyang Lu
The Design And Implementation Of Mcflow: A Real-Time Multi-Core Aware Middleware For Dependent Task Graphs, Huang-Ming Huang, Christopher Gill, Chenyang Lu
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
Modern computer architectures have evolved from uni-processor platforms to multi-processor and multi-core plat- forms, but traditional real-time distributed middleware such as RT-CORBA has not kept pace with that evolution. To address those issues, this paper describes the design and implementation of MCFlow, a new real-time distributed middleware for dependent task graphs running on multi-core platforms. MCFlow provides the following contributions to the state of the art in real-time middleware: (1) it provides an efficient C++ based component model through which computations can be configured flexibly for execution within a single core, across cores of a common host, or spanning multiple …
What Do Collaborations With The Arts Have To Say About Human-Robot Interaction?, William D. Smart, Annamaria Pileggi, Leila Takayama
What Do Collaborations With The Arts Have To Say About Human-Robot Interaction?, William D. Smart, Annamaria Pileggi, Leila Takayama
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
This is a collection of papers presented at the workshop "What Do Collaborations with the Arts Have to Say About HRI", held at the 2010 Human-Robot Interaction Conference, in Osaka, Japan.
Multi-Tier Diversified Service Architecture For Internet 3.0: The Next Generation Internet, Subharthi Paul, Raj Jain, Jianli Pan, Chakchai So-In
Multi-Tier Diversified Service Architecture For Internet 3.0: The Next Generation Internet, Subharthi Paul, Raj Jain, Jianli Pan, Chakchai So-In
All Computer Science and Engineering Research
The next generation Internet needs to support multiple diverse application contexts. In this paper, we present Internet 3.0, a diversified, multi-tier architecture for the next generation Internet. Unlike the current Internet, Internet 3.0 defines a new set of primitives that allows diverse applications to compose and optimize their specific contexts over resources belonging to multiple ownerships. The key design philosophy is to enable diversity through explicit representation, negotiation and enforcement of policies at the granularity of network infrastructure, compute resources, data and users. The basis of the Internet 3.0 architecture is a generalized three-tier object model. The bottom tier consists …
Test 1973: John Deere 8345 Rt Ivt, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab
Test 1973: John Deere 8345 Rt Ivt, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab
Nebraska Tractor Tests
ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …
Infrared Thermography-Driven Flaw Detection And Evaluation Of Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements, Yong K. Cho, Yong-Rak Kim Ph.D., Thaddaeus Bode
Infrared Thermography-Driven Flaw Detection And Evaluation Of Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements, Yong K. Cho, Yong-Rak Kim Ph.D., Thaddaeus Bode
Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs
This research was conducted to study more realistic explanations of how variables are created and dealt with during hot mix asphalt (HMA) paving construction. Several paving projects across the state of Nebraska have been visited where sensory devices were used to test how the selected variables contribute to temperature differentials including density, moisture content within the asphalt, material surface temperature, internal temperature, wind speed, haul time, and equipment type. Areas of high temperature differentials are identified using an infrared camera whose usefulness was initially confirmed with a penetrating thermometer. A non-nuclear density device was also used to record how the …
Investigating Rfid For Roadside Identification Involving Freight Commercial Vehicle Operators (Cvo), Erick C. Jones Ph.D., Judy Perkins Ph.D.
Investigating Rfid For Roadside Identification Involving Freight Commercial Vehicle Operators (Cvo), Erick C. Jones Ph.D., Judy Perkins Ph.D.
Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology to track commercial vehicles. This transcript describes research that investigates the ability for RFID technologies to work in license plates. Mile markers are common fixtures on the roadside and may provide infrastructure to support identifying RFID to enabled Commercial Vehicle Operators (CVO). This research considers variables that affect the performance of a RFID License Plate System that uses a scanner located at the mile marker. Mile marker characteristics, such as horizontal distance and vertical height, were evaluated along with RFID tag characteristics, such tag type and license plate location.
Safety Investigation And Guidance For Work-Zone Devices In Freight Transportation Systems Subjected To Passenger Car And Truck Impacts With New Crash Standards, Ronald K. Faller Ph.D., P.E., Dean L. Sicking Ph.D., P.E., Karla A. Lechtenberg M.S.C.E., E.I.T., James C. Holloway M.S.C.E., E.I.T., Jennifer D. Schmidt
Safety Investigation And Guidance For Work-Zone Devices In Freight Transportation Systems Subjected To Passenger Car And Truck Impacts With New Crash Standards, Ronald K. Faller Ph.D., P.E., Dean L. Sicking Ph.D., P.E., Karla A. Lechtenberg M.S.C.E., E.I.T., James C. Holloway M.S.C.E., E.I.T., Jennifer D. Schmidt
Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs
Crashworthy, work-zone, portable sign support systems accepted under NCHRP Report No. 350 were analyzed to predict their safety peformance according to the TL-3 MASH evaluation criteria. An analysis was conducted to determine which hardware parameters of sign support systems would likely contribute to the safety performance with MASH. The acuracy of the method was evaluated through full-scale crash testing. Four full-scale crash tests were conducted with a pickup truck. Two tall-mounted, sign support systems with aluminum sign panels failed the MASH criteria due to windshield penetration. One low-mounted system with a vinyl, roll-up sign panel failed the MASH criteria due …
Impact Of Truck Loading On Design And Analysis Of Asphaltic Pavement Structures, Yong-Rak Kim, Hokie Ban, Soohyok Im
Impact Of Truck Loading On Design And Analysis Of Asphaltic Pavement Structures, Yong-Rak Kim, Hokie Ban, Soohyok Im
Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs
Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) is an improved methodology for pavement design and the evaluation of paving materials. However, in spite of significant advancements to pre-existing traditional design methods, the MEPDG is known to be limited in its accurate prediction of mechanical responses and damage in asphaltic pavements. This restriction is both due to the use of simplified structural analysis methods, and a general lack of understanding of the fundamental constitutive behavior and damage mechanisms in paving materials. This is additionally affected by the use of circular tire loading configurations. Performance prediction and pavement life are determined based on the …
Layer Moduli Of Nebraska Pavements For The New Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (Mepdg), Yong-Rak Kim, Soohyok Im, Hoki Ban
Layer Moduli Of Nebraska Pavements For The New Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (Mepdg), Yong-Rak Kim, Soohyok Im, Hoki Ban
Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs
As a step-wise implementation effort of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) for the design and analysis of Nebraska flexible pavement systems, this research developed a database of layer moduli — dynamic modulus, creep compliance, and resilient modulus — of various pavement materials used in Nebraska. The database includes all three design input levels. Direct laboratory tests of the representative Nebraska pavement materials were conducted for Level 1 design inputs, and surrogate methods, such as the use of Witczak’s predictive equations and the use of default resilient moduli based on soil classification data, were evaluated to include Level 2 and/or …