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Submissions from 2023

Investigating the Seepage Characteristics of an Open-Graded Friction Course Using Finite Element Modeling, Hossam Abohamer, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Corey Mayeux, Samuel B. Cooper, and Samuel B. Cooper

A graphical analysis-based elastoplastic solution for undrained wellbore drilling problem in Hoek-Brown rock formation, H. Abu-Dayyeh, X. Wang, S. L. Chen, Y. H. Han, and Y. N. Abousleiman

Comparative analysis of Adsorption-Extraction (AE) and Nanotrap® Magnetic Virus Particles (NMVP) workflows for the recovery of endogenous enveloped and non-enveloped viruses in wastewater, Warish Ahmed, Aaron Bivins, and Todd Thalhamer

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Influence of membrane pore-size on the recovery of endogenous viruses from wastewater using an adsorption-extraction method, Warish Ahmed, Wendy J.M. Smith, Kwanrawee Sirikanchana, Masaaki Kitajima, Aaron Bivins, and Stuart L. Simpson

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Unveiling indicator, enteric, and respiratory viruses in aircraft lavatory wastewater using adsorption-extraction and Nanotrap® Microbiome A Particles workflows, Warish Ahmed, Wendy J.M. Smith, Ananda Tiwari, Aaron Bivins, and Stuart L. Simpson

Fragility Assessment of Levee Relief Wells during River Flooding, Omar Alawneh, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, Jack A. Cadigan, Navid H. Jafari, Ye Hong Chen, and Frank T.C. Tsai

Calibrations of the Innovative S3F Sensor for Normal Stress Measurements in Soil, Hussein Alqrinawi, Hai Lin, and Shengli Chen

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Breaking Boundaries in Wind Engineering: LSU WISE Open-Jet Facility Revolutionizes Solar Panel and Building Design, Aly Mousaad Aly

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Empowering Student Success: Unlocking the Potential of Project-Based Steel Design Education, Aly Mousaad Aly

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Wind Loads on Overhead Sign Structures: A Comparative Study, Aly Mousaad Aly and James Benson

Seismic response reduction using a tuned pendulum pounding mass damper: Experimental verification of superior performance, Aly Mousaad Aly and Suvash Chapain

Wind design of solar panels for resilient and green communities: CFD with machine learning, Aly Mousaad Aly and John Clarke

Wind loads on a low-rise gable roof with and without solar panels and comparison to design standards, Aly Mousaad Aly and Emily Rone

Wind induced pressures on a large low-sloped gable roof building with parapet, Aly Mousaad Aly and Matthew Thomas

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Optimizing Pier Design to Mitigate Scour: A Comprehensive Review and Large Eddy Simulation Study, A. M. Aly and F. Khaled

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Measuring Resilience to Sea-Level Rise for Critical Infrastructure Systems: Leveraging Leading Indicators, Lamis Amer, Murat Erkoc, Rusty A. Feagin, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, Katharine J. Mach, and Diana Mitsova

Remote sensing algorithm for retrieving global-scale sea surface solar irradiance, Saber Aradpour and Zhiqiang Deng

Evaluation of bio-based and petroleum-based rejuvenator based on cracking susceptibility of hot mix asphalt with high RAP content, Shams Arafat, Nazimuddin M. Wasiuddin, and Louay N. Mohammad

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Highly socially vulnerable communities exhibit disproportionately increased viral loads as measured in community wastewater, William M. Baldwin, Robert D. Dayton, Aaron W. Bivins, Rona S. Scott, Andrew D. Yurochko, John A. Vanchiere, Terry Davis, Connie L. Arnold, Jose E.T. Asuncion, Mohammad A.N. Bhuiyan, et al.

Freeway Incident Diversionary Behavior as a Measure of Transportation Network Resilience, Saurabha Bawankule, Ravindra Gudishala, Chester Wilmot, and Brian Wolshon

Shear Design of Prestressed Concrete Girders Using FRP as Auxiliary Reinforcement, Abdeldjelil Belarbi, Ayman Okeil, and Antonio Nanni

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Predicting Grocery Store Visits During the Early Outbreak of COVID-19 with Machine Learning, Ruijie Bian, Pamela Murray-Tuite, and Brian Wolshon

Modal and pushover analysis of concrete bridges with shallow footing subjected to seismic and scour loading, Sina Biazar, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, and Georgios P. Balomenos

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Structured Ethical Review for Wastewater-Based Testing in Support of Public Health, Devin A. Bowes, Amanda Darling, Erin M. Driver, Devrim Kaya, Rasha Maal-Bared, Lisa M. Lee, Kenneth Goodman, Sangeet Adhikari, Srijan Aggarwal, Aaron Bivins, et al.

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Vibration Attenuation in a High-Rise Hybrid-Timber Building: A Comparative Study, Suvash Chapain and Aly Mousaad Aly

Mechanical Behavior and Biogeochemical Reactions of a Fine-Grained Soil Treated by Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation, Guantao Cheng, Hai Lin, Ardalan Chaichi, Manas Ranjan Gartia, Joon Soo Park, and Elnaz Sheikh

Engineering Charts Development for Poroelastic Stress Analysis of Horizontal/Inclined Borehole and Its Application for Breakdown Pressure Prediction, S. L. Chen, Y. H. Han, and Y. N. Abousleiman

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Unstructured-grid approach to develop high-fidelity groundwater model to understand groundwater flow and storage responses to excessive groundwater withdrawals in the Southern Hills aquifer system in southeastern Louisiana (USA), Ye Hong Chen, Hamid Vahdat-Aboueshagh, Frank T.C. Tsai, Alyssa Dausman, and Michael C. Runge

Incident Diversionary Routing: Survey of Influences and Decisions, Grace Cole, Brian Wolshon, and Jeffrey Schmidt

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Near-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic on seniors’ crash size and severity, Saba Doulabi and Hany M. Hassan

Incorporating Environmental Impact Analysis into Louisiana’s Balanced Asphalt Mixture Design, Ibrahim Elnaml, Heather Dylla, Jun Liu, Louay N. Mohammad, Samuel B. Cooper, and Samuel B. Cooper

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Developing Sustainable Asphalt Mixtures Using High-Density Polyethylene Plastic Waste Material, Ibrahim Elnaml, Jun Liu, Louay N. Mohammad, Nazimuddin Wasiuddin, Samuel B. Cooper, and Samuel B. Cooper

Integrating the Concept of Complete Streets into Pavement Preservation, Sirisha Gangireddy, Ruijie Bian, Tara Tolford, and Hany Hassan

Shear and Tensile Strength Measurements of CaCO 3 Cemented Bonds between Glass Beads Treated by Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation, Kewei Gao, Hai Lin, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Pierre Bick, Tomas Babuska, Xiwei Li, Jeffrey Helm, Derick G. Brown, and Nabil Zouari

A Breakdown Pressure Prediction Model with Borehole Geometry Effect Considered, Yanhui Han, Mustafa Almutawa, and Shengli Chen

Performance Evaluation of Design Methods for Geosynthetic-Reinforced Pile-Supported Embankments, Mohammad Ali Izadifar, Ning Luo, Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, and Shengli Chen

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Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems, Aparna Keshaviah, Megan B. Diamond, Megan B. Diamond, Matthew J. Wade, Samuel V. Scarpino, Warish Ahmed, Fabian Amman, Olusola Aruna, Andrei Badilla-Aguilar, Itay Bar-Or, et al.

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Augmenting external surface pressures’ predictions on isolated low-rise buildings using CFD simulations, Md Faiaz Khaled and Aly Mousaad Aly

Cementation Stress Characteristic Curve for Sands Treated by Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation, Hai Lin, Yi Dong, Joon Soo Park, and Brina M. Montoya

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Comparison of concentration and extraction workflows for qPCR quantification of intI1 and vanA in untreated wastewater, Yawen Liu, Wendy Smith, Metasebia Gebrewold, Xinhong Wang, Stuart L. Simpson, Aaron Bivins, and Warish Ahmed

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Delineating the Effects of Molecular and Colloidal Interactions of Dissolved Organic Matter on Titania Photocatalysis, Mostafa Maghsoodi, Céline Jacquin, Benoit Teychené, Geoffroy Lesage, and Samuel D. Snow

Uncertainty for the ISSDOTv2 Bedload Measurement Method, Tate O. McAlpin, Daniel G. Wren, Keaton E. Jones, David D. Abraham, Roger A. Kuhnle, and Clinton S. Willson

Fragility assessment of bottom plates in above ground storage tanks during flood events, Md Manik Mia and Sabarethinam Kameshwar

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Machine learning approach for predicting bridge components’ condition ratings, Md Manik Mia and Sabarethinam Kameshwar

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Aircraft Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants — John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, August–September 2022, Robert C. Morfino, Stephen M. Bart, Andrew Franklin, Benjamin H. Rome, Andrew P. Rothstein, Thomas W.S. Aichele, Siyao Lisa Li, Aaron Bivins, Ezra T. Ernst, and Cindy R. Friedman

Coordinate Systems of the World: Datums and Grids, Clifford J. Mugnier

Deep learning-based ensemble modeling of Vibrio parahaemolyticus concentration in marine environment, Peyman Namadi and Zhiqiang Deng

Optimum environmental conditions controlling prevalence of vibrio parahaemolyticus in marine environment, Peyman Namadi and Zhiqiang Deng

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Show us the data: global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring efforts, equity, and gaps, Colleen C. Naughton, Fernando A. Roman, Ana Grace F. Alvarado, Arianna Q. Tariqi, Matthew A. Deeming, Krystin F. Kadonsky, Kyle Bibby, Aaron Bivins, Gertjan Medema, Warish Ahmed, et al.

Community-Level Approach for a Socio-Physical Flood Post-Hazard Functionality Assessment, Omar Nofal, Nathanael Rosenheim, Jayant Patil, Xiangnan Zhou, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, John W. van de Lindt, and Leonardo Duenas-Osorio

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A Conceptual Investigation of Transition to Self-Driven Turbidity Currents From Along-Shelf Current-Supported Turbidity Currents, Celalettin E. Ozdemir, Liangyi Yue, Haq Murad Nazari, George Xue, Samuel J. Bentley, Shuo Yang, Sayed O. Hofioni, Robert Forney, and Saber Aradpour

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Mechanical and thermal properties of mud dauber nests under atmospheric drying, Joon S. Park, Hai Lin, and Hussein Alqrinawi

Mechanical Properties of Soils Used by Mud Dauber Wasps under Varying Moisture Conditions, Joon S. Park, Hai Lin, Hussein Alqrinawi, and Joyner E. Deamer

Hydraulic Properties of Sands Treated with Fungal Mycelium of Trichoderma virens, Joon Soo Park, Hai Lin, William M. Moe, and Emmanuel Salifu

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A robust experimental design for conceptual model discrimination based on information theory, Hai V. Pham and Frank T.C. Tsai

Evaluating the Site Variability Using Bayesian Analysis, Md Habibur Rahman, Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, and Sabarethinam Kameshwar

Using Bayesian Analysis to Implement the Specific Site Variability into LRFD Design of Piles, Md Habibur Rahman, Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, and Sabarethinam Kameshwar

Effects of digital elevation model data source on HSPF-based watershed-scale flow and water quality simulations, Maryam Roostaee and Zhiqiang Deng

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Experimental evaluation of asphalt mixtures with emerging additives against cracking and moisture damage, Md Tanvir A. Sarkar and Mostafa A. Elseifi

Investigating the Laboratory Performance of Crumb-Rubber-Modified and High-Float Polymer-Modified Asphalt Emulsions in Chip Sealing, Md Tanvir Ahmed Sarkar, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Md Nafiur Rahman, Samuel B. Cooper, and Samuel B. Cooper

Disruptions in Megaregional Network Evacuations: Identifying and Assessing Critical Links, Mohammad Shapouri, James D. Fuller, Brian Wolshon, and Nelida Herrera

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) removal rates in streams differ by particle size under varying substrate and light conditions, Elise D. Snyder, Jennifer L. Tank, Pedro F.P. Brandão-Dias, Kyle Bibby, Arial J. Shogren, Aaron W. Bivins, Brett Peters, Erik M. Curtis, Diogo Bolster, Scott P. Egan, et al.

Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites Using Combined Systems of Fly Ash and Post-Processed Bagasse Ash as Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Sujata Subedi, Marwa M. Hassan, Gabriel A. Arce, Michele Barbato, Hassan Noorvand, and Louay Mohammad

Monkeypox outbreak: Wastewater and environmental surveillance perspective, Ananda Tiwari, Sangeet Adhikari, and Roger K. Seals

Response Mitigation of Floating Platform by Porous-Media-Tuned Liquid Dampers, Wen Huai Tsao, Ying Chuan Chen, Christopher E. Kees, and Lance Manuel

An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Regularized Boundary Integral Method for Nonlinear Free-Surface Flows over Complex Topography and Wave-Structure Interaction, Wen Huai Tsao and Christopher E. Kees

HIGH-ORDER PHASE-RESOLVING METHOD FOR WAVE TRANSFORMATION OVER NATURAL SHORELINES, Wen Huai Tsao, Rebecca Schurr, and Christopher E. Kees

Analytical prediction of quasi-static responses of transmission lines under moving downbursts: A nonlinear model with linear approximation, Dahai Wang, Long Yang, Yue Xiang, Chao Sun, and Qilin Chen

Estimating long-term and short-term impact of COVID-19 activity restriction on regional highway traffic demand: A case study in Zhejiang Province, China, Rui Wang, Zhao Zhang, Stephen K. Formel, Demetra Kandalepas, Kimberly L. Mighell, John Pardue, and Sunshine A. Van Bael

A graphical solution for undrained cylindrical cavity expansion in strain-hardening frictional soil, Xu Wang, Sheng Li Chen, and Jon Jincai Zhang

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Efficient Chemical-Free Degradation of Waterborne Micropollutants with an Immobilized Dual-Porous TiO2 Photocatalyst, Daniel E. Willis, Ella C. Sheets, Mary R. Worbington, Madhusudan Kamat, Sarah K. Glass, Ma Cayla J. Caso, Tochukwu Ofoegbuna, Liz M. Diaz, Caleb Osei-Appau, Samuel D. Snow, et al.

Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion, Chenliang Wu, Wonsuck Kim, Ryan Herring, Benjamin T. Cardenas, Tian Y. Dong, Hongbo Ma, Andrew Moodie, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Frank Tsai, and An Li

Correlation of Antibiotic Resistance Gene and Microbial Source Tracking Marker Removal through Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment, Zhenyu Wu, Olivia Ginn, Aaron Bivins, and Kyle Bibby

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Comparative analyses of covariance matrix adaptation and iterative ensemble smoother on high-dimensional inverse problems in high-resolution groundwater modeling, Shuo Yang, Frank T.C. Tsai, Peter Bacopoulos, and Christopher E. Kees

Fast desalinization of residual saltwater using subsurface dams combined with saltwater discharge or freshwater recharge, Jina Yin, Ning Wang, Chunhui Lu, Frank T.C. Tsai, and Huawei Chen

Fracture failure analysis of a lightning rod on a substation frame considering residual thermal stress, Meng Zhang, Chongqi Gao, Chaohua Wang, Jingpu Li, Guifeng Zhao, and Chao Sun

In-Time Density Monitoring of In-Place Asphalt Layer Construction via Intelligent Compaction Technology, Weiguang Zhang, Kamal Nasir Ahmad, Zheng Tong, Zhaoguang Hu, Haoyang Wang, Meng Wu, Kai Zhao, Shunxin Yang, Hassan Farooq, and Louay N. Mohammad

COVID-19, traffic demand, and activity restriction in China: A national assessment, Zhao Zhang, Daocheng Fu, Hai Lin, Hussein Alqrinawi, and Nathan P. Lord

Submissions from 2022

A semi-vectorized and relationally-operated algorithm for fast geoid computation using Stokes’s integration, Ahmed Abdalla and Vagner Ferreira

Laboratory Evaluation of Warm-Mix Asphalt Open-Graded Friction Courses, Hossam Abohamer, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Corey Mayeux, Samuel B. Cooper III, and Samuel Cooper Jr.

Evaluating the Effect of Heating Cooling Cycle on the Clay-Concrete Pile Interface, Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, Abedalqader Idries, and Shengli Chen

Laboratory Evaluation of Microsurfacing Bond Strength, Sk. Abu Talha, Ahmad Al-Hosainat, Munir D. Nazzal, Sang Soo Kim, Ala Abbas, Louay N. Mohammad, and Saif Nassar

Alterations of endophytic microbial community function in Spartina alterniflora as a result of crude oil exposure, Samantha D. Addis, Stephen K. Formel, Warish Ahmed, Joe Brown, Caitlyn Butler, Justin Greaves, and Raeann Leal

Occurrence of multiple respiratory viruses in wastewater in Queensland, Australia: Potential for community disease surveillance, Warish Ahmed and Aaron Bivins

Detection of the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 in aircraft wastewater, Warish Ahmed, Aaron Bivins, and Ronald F. Malone

RT-qPCR and ATOPlex sequencing for the sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance, Warish Ahmed, Aaron Bivins, and Rhett W. Stout

Distribution of human fecal marker genes and their association with pathogenic viruses in untreated wastewater determined using quantitative PCR, Warish Ahmed, Aaron Bivins, Weiguang Zhang, Shihui Shen, Shenghua Wu, Louay N. Mohammad, and Xuhui She

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Comparison of RT-qPCR and RT-dPCR Platforms for the Trace Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater, Warish Ahmed, Wendy J.M. Smith, Suzanne Metcalfe, Greg Jackson, Phil M. Choi, Mary Morrison, Daniel Field, Pradip Gyawali, Aaron Bivins, Kyle Bibby, et al.

Warm Mix Asphalt Demonstration Projects in Louisiana: Case Study of Five to Eight Years of Field Performance, Moses Akentuna, Louay N. Mohammad, Kwadwo Ampadux Boateng, and Samuel Cooper Jr

Effectiveness of Loaded Wheel Tracking Test to Ascertain Moisture Susceptibility of Asphalt Mixtures, Moses Akentuna, Louay N. Mohammad, Sanchit Sachdeva, Samuel B. Cooper III., and Samuel B. Cooper Jr.

A comprehensive laboratory evaluation of the factors affecting the Micro-Surfacing interlayer bond strength, Ahmad Al-Hosainat, Munir D. Nazzal, Sk Abu Talha, Sang Soo Kim, Ala Abbas, and Louay Mohammad

Evaluation of the Interlayer Bond Strength of Micro-Surfacing Mixes, Ahmad Al-Hosainat, Munir D. Nazzal, Sk Abu Talha, Sang Soo Kim, Ala Abbas, Louay Mohammad, Eric Biehl, and Perry Ricciardi

Calibrations of the Innovative S3F Sensor for Shear Stress Measurements in Soil, Hussein Alqrinawi, Hai Lin, and Shengli Chen

Large-Scale Open-Jet Testing for Cladding Design in High-Rise Buildings: Higher Peak Pressures Compared to Wind Tunnels, Aly Mousaad Aly and Suvash Chapain

Urban heat island mitigation via geometric configuration, Aly Mousaad Aly, Bianca Goodlow, and Jacob Conerly

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A Case Study of Protecting Bridges Against Overheight Vehicles, Aly Mousaad Aly and Marc Hoffmann

Large-Scale Open-Jet Testing: A new frontier in structural wind Engineering, Aly Mousaad Aly, Md Faiaz Khaled, and Ryan Clancy

Proposed Practical Overheight Detection and Alert System, A. M. Aly, P. Chacon, H. Gol-Zaroudi, J. W. Choi, and G. Voyiadjis

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A Framework for Vibration Attenuation in Traffic Mast Arm Structures under Wind Loads, A. M. Aly, H. Gol-Zaroudi, and M. Rezaee

Implementation of Multi-level Interventions to Mitigate Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant at a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY in Southern United States, Keena N. Arbuthnot, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Autumn W. Collins, Matthew Rodrigue, and John H. Pardue