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An Integrated System for Road Condition and Weigh-in-Motion Measurements using In-Pavement Strain Sensors
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The United States has the world’s largest road network with over 4.1 million miles of roads supporting more than 260 million of registered automobiles including around 11 million of heavy trucks. Such a large road network ...
In-Pavement Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Weight-In-Motion Measurements
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Estimation a traffic over the design period is one of the critical factors in pavement design. Weight-in-motion (WIM) sensors have become popular for weight measurements. A three-dimension glass fiber-reinforced polymer ...
Dynamic Interaction of Vehicle and Bridge Subjected to Prestress Force Loss and Foundation Settlement
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Plenty of bridges in U.S. are suffering from prestress force loss and foundation settlements. The loss of prestress force in bridge load-carrying members such as girders may lead to the malfunction and even failure of the ...
High Performance Bio-Based Thermosets for Composites and Coatings
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
In the recent decade, there has been increasing interest in using renewable feedstocks as chemical commodities for composites and coatings application. Vegetable oils are promising renewable resources due to their wide ...
Responses to Privacy Turbulence: The Impact of Personality Traits on Recalibration and Privacy Boundaries on Facebook
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
As individuals use social media to create and maintain relationships and connections, they must also decide how to manage the private information that they disclose to their connections. If private information is handled ...
Surface Optimization of Siloxane-Polyurethane Marine Coatings for Improved Fouling-Release Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Biofouling has been an economically and environmentally costly problem to mankind ever since they set sail. Biofouling causes frictional drag leading to slow vessel speeds, and increased fuel costs. Antifouling (AF) coatings ...
Relational Maintenance Strategies, Positivity, and Constructive Financial Conversations in Romantic, Committed Partnerships
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Although a large body of research on financial management in marriages and conflict/divorce as outcomes of financial problems exists, the topic of how individuals describe the communicative processes leading to positive ...
All is Fair in Love and War, but Work is a Different Story: Communicative Responses to Perceptions of Organizational Injustice
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Organizational injustice has been a long feared and long dissected topic by many in the business world. However, there is no clear idea of what employees expect from their superior, nor how communication is impacted ...
Parametric Cost Estimating and Risk Analysis of Transportation Tunneling Projects
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Due to the increased scrutiny of construction costs for infrastructure projects by the
public and legislators, it is becoming increasing important for project developers to prepare
accurate conceptual cost estimates for ...
Spatial Scale Dependence of Drought Characteristics and Impact of Drought on Agriculture and Groundwater
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Drought is a water related natural hazard. It is difficult to characterize drought because of its diffused nature and spatiotemporal variability. However, understanding the variability of drought characteristics such as ...