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Synthesis and Design of Thiophene Materials: Effects of Ring Fusion and Metal Coordination
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Conjugated organic materials comprise a field of materials chemistry focused on the development of semiconducting organic plastics, popular applications of which are plastic solar cells and display technologies. One of the ...
Iron Waste Based Point-of-Use Device to Treat Pesticides in Water
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Organochlorine pesticide (OCP) contamination in groundwater is a problem worldwide, more severely in rural areas that normally cannot afford centralized water treatment systems. Iron nanoparticles have shown their ability ...
Carboxymethyl Cellulose Surface Treatment Method to Disperse Carbon Nanotubes in Smart Cementitious Materials
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
An innovative surface treatment method was proposed using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) to surface-treat carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for a consistent dispersion in cementitious materials to achieve high force detection ...
Exploring Chemically Treated Fiber Reinforced Pervious Concrete Through Image Based Micromechanical Modeling
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Pervious concrete has been widely used in parking lots and airport fields. However, past experience has shown durability and strength of the pervious concrete remains a challenge for adopting them in wider applications, ...
Seismic Energy Dissipation, Self-Centering, and Settlement of Rocking Foundations: Analysis of Experimental Data with Comparisons to Numerical Modeling
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The major objective of this study is to correlate the rocking foundation performance parameters with their capacity parameters and earthquake demand parameters using the results obtained from 142 centrifuge and shaking ...
Traffic Monitoring System Using In-Pavement Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Recently, adding more lanes becomes less and less feasible, which is no longer an applicable solution for the traffic congestion problem due to the increment of vehicles. Using the existing infrastructure more efficiently ...
Drive-By Bridge Damage Identification Through Virtual Simulations
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
With massive infrastructures built in US, timely condition assessment of these infrastructures becomes critical to daily traffic and economics. Due to high cost, long time consumption of direct condition assessment methods, ...
The Narrative of the Professional: The Value of Collegiate Forensics Participation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Forensics, or competitive speech and debate, has a history stretching back to the ancient Greeks. Although practitioners, students, and coaches have long sung its praises, limited research has been done to demonstrate the ...
Too Many American Icons: Conflicting Ideologies of Wild Horse Management in the American West
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Wild free-roaming horses in the American West continue to exist in tension with the land they inhabit, the government that “manages” them, and the people that are impacted by them. The problem, argued here, is the result ...
Features of Highly Hydrophobic Plant Oil-Based Vinyl Monomers in Cationic and Free Radical Polymerization
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The demand for polymeric materials, which have traditionally been produced from petroleum-based resources over the last century, continues to grow each year. However, the supply of fossil fuels is limited. This, along with ...