Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement is being produced from asphalt concrete, is mostly aggregate material and is itself granular and can be used in a variety of applications for which freshly produced natural aggregates have ...

When an engineering firm designs a dam, a government assesses its readiness for flood or famine, or a municipal water supply company invests in new infrastructure, lives and major financial investments are at stake. To ...

Statistical inference of internal computer network characteristics using only externally made measurements is extremely useful in the analysis of highly complex networks. This the- sis seeks to implement and test an ...

Web service choreographies, orchestrations and dynamically invoking web services are three kinds of sample compositions. These compositions create service inter-dependencies that can be misused for monetary or other ...

Proteins are the molecular tools of living cells and the path to unraveling their function is through modeling and understanding their structure. Many diseases occur when a protein loses its intended function due to inability ...

The current NRL Tight-Binding suite of programs was designed to only include s, p, and d orbitals in the basis. Because of this limitation, materials which have significant f orbital interactions could not be modeled in ...

This thesis investigates the comparison between the behavior of a structure modeled in a finite element (FE) software to the behavior captured using Digital Image Correlation (DIC). This experiment opens the gateway to ...

With the ever increasing volume of data existing on and passing through on-line resources together with a growing number of legitimate users of that information and potential adversaries, the need for better security and ...

This thesis presents finite element analyses of tapered FRP poles in ABAQUS and associated parametric studies in order to evaluate the effect of various properties on the overall static and dynamic response of the poles. ...

Making decisions over multivariate time series is an important topic which has gained significant interest in the past decade. A time series is a sequence of data points which are measured and ordered over uniform time ...