Browsing Civil and Environmental Engineering - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Quantifying China's carrying capacity : using optimization to explore sustainable food production
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Feeding the world's growing population in an environmentally sustainable way is a complex social and engineering challenge. In this thesis, we develop a novel method for assessing the number of people that can be fed ... -
Quantitative sustainability assessment of pavement-vehicle interaction : from bench-top experiments to integrated road network analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The sustainable development of our nation's roadway system requires quantitative means to link infrastructure performance to lifecycle energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Beside surface texture and roughness-induced ... -
Radium cycling in groundwater : implications for bioremediation and tracer studies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Radium (Ra) is a radioactive alkaline earth element and forms naturally from the decay of uranium (U) and thorium (Th), elements that are ubiquitous within most rocks, soils and sediments. Radium contamination associated ... -
Railroad marketing support system based on the freight choice model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Rainfall-runoff as spatial stochastic processes : data collection and synthesis.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
"Rapid" innovation and integration of components : comparison of user and manufacturer innovations through a study of residential construction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Rational interpretation of in-situ tests in cohesive soils
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
The reactive transport of suspended particles : mechanisms and modeling
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Real-time control stategies in transit operations : models and analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Real-time operations planning and control of high-frequency transit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)High-frequency transit systems are essential for the socioeconomic and environmental well-being of large and dense cities. The planning and control of their operations are important determinants of service quality. Transit ... -
Real-time personalized toll optimization based on traffic predictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Road pricing is a traffic congestion management strategy that alters traffic demand and raises funds for transportation supply improvements. Compared to static pricing and reactive dynamic pricing, proactive dynamic pricing ... -
Reduced basis approximation and a posteriori error estimation for non-coercive elliptic problems : applications to acoustics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Modern engineering problems often require accurate, reliable, and efficient evaluation of quantities of interest, evaluation of which demands the solution of a partial differential equation. We present in this thesis a ... -
Reduced rank filtering in chaotic systems with application in geophysical sciences
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Recent technological advancements have enabled us to collect large volumes of geophysical noisy measurements that need to be combined with the model forecasts, which capture all of the known properties of the underlying ... -
Reduced-basis methods applied to problems in elasticity : analysis and applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Modern engineering problems require accurate, reliable, and efficient evaluation of quantities of interest, the computation of which often requires solution of a partial differential equation. We present a technique for ... -
Reduced-order modeling for ensemble real-time estimation and control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Efficient exploitation of subsurface resources requires better understanding of subsurface physical properties as well as optimization of control strategies. Advances in technology have created the possibility of providing ... -
Regional earthquake loss estimation : role of transportation network, sensitivity and uncertainty, and risk mitigation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Large earthquakes near densely populated areas such as the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe events have caused extensive damage to the physical infrastructure and losses to the regional and national economies. Economic losses ... -
The relationship of the effective stress-strain behavior of a saturated clay to the rate of strain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963) -
Relationships between economies of scale and the shape of transportation networks.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Reliability of shell buckling predictions based upon experimental analysis of plastic models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963) -
Representation of water table dynamics in a land surface scheme : observations, models, and analyses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)A recent regional-scale water balance analysis has indicated that the groundwater storage and groundwater runoff are significant terms in the monthly and annual water balance for areas with a shallow water table. However, ...
