Browsing Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 238
-
Accounting for Rehabilitation Activity Uncertainty in a Pavement Life Cycle Assessment using Probability and Decision Tree Analysis
(National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, 2015-08-12)In any life cycle assessment (LCA) for pavements, the designer must decide on which rehabilitation activities will be used to maintain the pavement over the analysis period. While this sounds simple, the fact is that there ... -
ADAPTER, OPTIMISER, PRÉVOIR: La convergence des concepts, des outils, des technologies et des normes peut-elle accélérer l’innovation ?
(ISLI, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, France, 2004)Les outils et procédés permettant de réduire les insuffisances de la chaîne logistique sont très précieux. La capacité à s’adapter peut en effet ne pas dépendre de la seule technologie mais d’une perpétuelle aptitude à ... -
Adapting Decisions, Optimizing Facts and Predicting Figures: Can Convergence of Concepts, Tools, Technologies and Standards Catalyze Innovation?
(2008-07-31)Managing uncertainty is key in decision systems, such as supply chain management or military readiness. We propose a reasonable confluence of existing concepts, tools, technologies and standards that may, collectively, ... -
ADAPTIVE VALUE NETWORKS: Convergence of Emerging Tools, Technologies and Standards as Catalytic Drivers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)Can we collapse information asymmetries and add value to networks or demand webs? Real-time operational adaptability is key, especially in fast ‘clockspeed’ industries. Confluence of emerging tools, technologies and ... -
Agents: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
(2002)This is a summary of Agents research and its potential for applications in multiple fields. -
Agricultural Expansion Planning: Incorporating Water Reuse
(Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1982-03)A mathematical model has been built to guide decisions required for agricultural expansion planning. Of particular interest is the case when some, or all, of the irrigation sources available have saline water. These decisions ... -
THE AIMS OF EDUCATION
(2022-11-29)Public education as an instrument of goodwill. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective. Knowledge without compassion is inhuman. -
Air leakage has strong influence on building life cycle impacts
(2017-05-02)Making informed decisions at the earliest stages of the design process can lead to improved building performance. There are many aspects of a building’s design that can influence overall energy consumption. This research ... -
The Analysis of River Basins and Channel Networks Using Digital Terrain Data
(Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989-09)This work examines patterns of regularity and scale in landform and channel networks. Digital elevation model data sets from throughout the United States are used as a data source. First we consider the two-dimensional ... -
An Analytical and Experimental Study of Transient Cooling Pond Behavior
(Cambridge : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973-01)Cooling ponds offer many advantages as a means of closed cycle heat dissipation. These are simplicity, low maintenance.and power requirements, aesthetic and possible recreational values, and high thermal inertia. A cooling ... -
-
Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport: Estimation of Continental Precipitation Recycling and Parameterization of a Simple Climate Model
(Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991-07)The advective transport of atmospheric water vapor and its role in global hydrology and the water balance of continental regions are discussed and explored. The data set consists of ten years of global wind and humidity ... -
AUTO ID FUTURE - FREQUENCY AGNOSTIC
(SCE Europe, 2008-05)Identification of information is one key to the development of intelligent decision systems of the future. Frequency agnostic automatic identification is only one step in the physical world to make physical objects identify ... -
Auto ID Paradigm Shifts from Internet of Things to Unique Identification of Decisions in System of Systems
(2008-07-31)Return on investment (ROI) from radio frequency (RF) based tools of identification may increase with the diffusion of frequency agnostic modes of radio frequency identification (RFID), such as, ultrawideband (UWB). Similarly, ... -
Automatic Parameter Estimation of a Large Conceptual Rainfall-runoff Model: A Maximum Likelihood Approach
(Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Hydrology and Water Resources Systems, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982-03)A stochastic parameter estimation procedure to be applied to large conceptual rainfall-runoff models is proposed. The procedure is based on a maximum likelihood approach, which is enhanced to allow for the use of prior ... -
BEING DIGITAL - Nostradamus for the Soul
(2011-04-20)Amorphous and near-fictional aggregation of relational applications with social media, networking and ebusiness services. Hypothetical seamless lifestyle scenarios highlight convergence of applications inevitable in the ... -
Bio-Inspired Energy Dynamics
(2010-03-27)Energy policies based on empirical assumptions without a foundation in granular real-time data may be limited in scope. It may sputter ineffectively in its role as the engine of energy economics. For energy efficiency and ... -
Biofuel Sources and Demand: Rough Comparison between India and China
(2008-11-05)Staggering numbers of demand vs supply -
Calibration and Verification of the Cooling Lake Model for North Anna Power Station: During the Period July 1978 - September 1981
(Cambridge, Mass. : Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Aquatic Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982-03)The North Anna Power Station (3 proposed nuclear units with a total capacity of 2820MWe) is located in the State of Virginia about 41 miles northwest of Richmond. The plant condenser heat dissipation system consists of a ... -
Can We Apply Principles From Social Networking To Healthcare Informatics For Intelligent Data Analytics?
(2008-12-14)Extracting the principles associated with complexity theory and swarm intelligence has offered practical solutions for routing and scheduling. Reality mining and its link with social networking relationships may yield ...
