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Submissions from 2023

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

Effect of Laboratory Aging Levels on Asphalt Binder Chemical/Rheological Properties and Fracture Resistance of Asphalt Mixtures, Peyman Barghabany, Jun Zhang, Louay N. Mohammad, Samuel B. Cooper, and Samuel B. Cooper

Chemical and Rheological Characterization of Asphalt Binders: A Comparison of Asphalt Binder Aging and Asphalt Mixture Aging, Peyman Barghabany, Jun Zhang, Louay N. Mohammad, Samuel B. Cooper III, and Samuel B. Cooper Jr

Novel Model to Predict Critical Strain Energy Release Rate in Semi-Circular Bend Test as Fracture Parameter for Asphalt Mixtures Using an Artificial Neural Network Approach, Peyman Barghabany, Jun Zhang, Louay N. Mohammad, Samuel B. Cooper III, and Samuel B. Cooper Jr

Passive sampling to scale wastewater surveillance of infectious disease: Lessons learned from COVID-19, Aaron Bivins, Devrim Kaya, and Kelly A. Rusch

The use of hybrid machine learning models for improving the GALDIT model for coastal aquifer vulnerability mapping, Mojgan Bordbar, Khabat Khosravi, Dorina Murgulet, Frank T.C. Tsai, and Ali Golkarian

A fictitious pile method for interaction factor of two laterally loaded piles in multilayered isotropic soils, Ming Cao and Shengli Chen

Producing ratio measures of effect with quantitative microbial risk assessment, Drew Capone and Aaron Bivins

Computational implementation of bounding surface model and its verification through cavity benchmark problems, Shengli Chen, Younane Abousleiman, and Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan

A graphical method for undrained analysis of cavity expansion in Mohr-Coulomb soil, Sheng Li Chen and Xu Wang

A graphical analysis-based method for undrained cylindrical cavity expansion in modified Cam Clay soil, S. L. Chen and Y. N. Abousleiman

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Classification of surface pavement cracks as top-down, bottom-up, and cement-treated reflective cracking based on deep learning methods, Nirmal Dhakal, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Zia U.A. Zihan, Zhongjie Zhang, Christophe N. Fillastre, and Jagannath Upadhyay

Impact of the Great Flood of 2016 on the Asphaltic Concrete Road Infrastructure in Louisiana, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Momen R. Mousa, and Kevin Gaspard

Calibration of Temperature Gradient Load Factor for Service Limit State Design of Concrete Slab-on-Girder Bridges, Ahmed Elshoura and Ayman M. Okeil

Study of Statistical Uncertainties for Temperature Gradients in Concrete Bridges, Ahmed Elshoura and Ayman M. Okeil

Numerical investigation of air intrusion and aerobic reactions in municipal solid waste landfills, Alborz Fathinezhad, Navid H. Jafari, and Frank T-C Tsai

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Decay of oil residues in the soil is enhanced by the presence of Spartina alterniflora, with no additional effect from microbiome manipulation, Stephen K. Formel, Allyson M. Martin, John H. Pardue, Vijaikrishnah Elango, Kristina Johnson, Claudia K. Gunsch, Emilie Lefèvre, Paige M. Varner, Yeon Ji Kim, Brittany M. Bernik, et al.

Spatial and temporal comparisons of salt marsh soil fungal communities following the deepwater horizon spill, Stephen K. Formel, Kimberly L. Mighell, Demetra Kandalepas, Elizabeth Jarrell, Brittany M. Bernik, Vijaikrishnah Elango, John H. Pardue, Michael J. Blum, and Sunshine A. Van Bael

Well-Balanced Second-Order Convex Limiting Technique for Solving the Serre–Green–Naghdi Equations, Jean Luc Guermond, Chris Kees, Bojan Popov, and Eric Tovar

Hyperbolic relaxation technique for solving the dispersive Serre–Green–Naghdi equations with topography, Jean-Luc Guermond, Chris Kees, Bojan Popov, and Eric Tovar

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Factors Affecting Driving Cessation of Older Adults and Their Satisfaction with Mobility Options, Hany M. Hassan, Matthew R. Lauzon, Kassandra Byrne, Mark R. Ferguson, Bruce Newbold, Brenda Vrkljan, and Saiedeh Razavi

Triple Hill’s Vortex Synthetic Eddy Method, John S. Haywood, Adrian Sescu, Shanti Bhushan, and Christopher E. Kees

Looking Forward: The Role of Academic Researchers in Building Sustainable Wastewater Surveillance Programs, Catherine Hoar and Jill McClary-Gutierrez

Effect of one cycle of heating-cooling on the clay-concrete pile interface shear strength parameters, Abedalqader Idries, Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, and Shengli Chen

Post hurricane Harvey dataset: Portable free fall penetrometer and chirp sonar measurements of Texas rivers, Reem Jaber and Nina Stark

A novel three dimensional nonlinear tuned mass damper and its application in floating offshore wind turbines, V. Jahangiri and C. Sun

The Overlooked Photochemistry of Iodine in Aqueous Suspensions of Fullerene Derivatives, Madhusudan Kamat, Kyle Moor, Gabrielle Langlois, and Moshan Chen

Flood risk assessment of storage tanks in the Port of Rotterdam, Sabarethinam Kameshwar

Hurricane performance and assessment models, Sabarethinam Kameshwar

Simple, accurate, and efficient embedded finite element methods for fluid–solid interaction, Christopher E. Kees, J. Haydel Collins, and Alvin Zhang

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Assessing aerodynamic loads on low-rise buildings considering Reynolds number and turbulence effects: a review, Md Faiaz Khaled and Aly Mousaad Aly

A Novel Radial Basis Function Approach for Infiltration-Induced Landslides in Unsaturated Soils, Cheng Yu Ku, Liu Chih-Yu, and Frank Tsai

Advances in analytical solutions for time-dependent solute transport model, Rohit Kumar, Ayan Chatterjee, Mritunjay Kumar Singh, and Frank T.C. Tsai

Analysis of landslide occurrence time via rainfall intensity and soil water index ternary diagram, Yi Jun Liu, Yen Yu Chiu, Frank T.C. Tsai, and Su Chin Chen

Evaluation of a wheel-based seismic acquisition system for a planetary rover, J. M. Lorenzo, A. Bates, D. A. Patterson, C. Sun, T. A. Douglas, S. Karunatillake, P. M. Bremner, M. R. Zanetti, H. F. Haviland, R. C. Weber, et al.

Mechanical Property Evaluation for Steel Slag in Asphalt Mixture with Different Skeleton Structures Using Modified Marshall Mix Design Methodology, Yingcheng Luan, Weiguang Zhang, Yongli Zhao, Zijian Pan, Zhe Niu, Kun Zeng, Xiaobing Chen, and Louay N. Mohammad

Evaluation of parameters governing dark and photo-repair in UVC-irradiated Escherichia coli, Mostafa Maghsoodi, Grace L. Lowry, Ian M. Smith, and Samuel D. Snow

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Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: Principles, current work, opportunities and challenges, Alejandro Martinez, Jason DeJong, Idil Akin, Ali Aleali, Chloe Arson, Jared Atkinson, Paola Bandini, Tugce Baser, Rodrigo Borela, Ross Boulanger, et al.

Amino acids suppress macropinocytosis and promote release of CSF1 receptor in macrophages, Zachary I. Mendel, Mack B. Reynolds, Basel H. Abuaita, Mary X. O'Riordan, and Joel A. Swanson

Uniform and Local Corrosion Characterization and Modeling Framework for Long-Term Exposure of Different Rebars Used for RC Elements in the Presence of Chloride Conditions, Deeparekha Narayanan, Yi Lu, Ayman Okeil, and Homero Castaneda

Evaluation of Moisture Susceptibility and Chemistry of Recovered Asphalt Binders, Mohammad Najmush Sakib Oyan, Zahid Hossain, and Mostafa Elseifi

Chemical and Toxin Impacts of Oil and Gas Activities on Coastal Systems, John H. Pardue and Vijaikrishnah Elango

Soil Water Retention Curve and Hydraulic Conductivity of Fungi-Treated Sand, Joon S. Park and Hai Lin

Investigating Geotechnical Properties of Nest Soils Used by Mud Dauber Wasps, Joon S. Park, Noura S. Saleh, Hai Lin, and Hussein Alqrinawi

Investigating physical and mechanical properties of nest soils used by mud dauber wasps from a geotechnical engineering perspective, Joon S. Park, Noura S. Saleh, and John H. Pardue

Methodology to Quantify Statewide Evacuations, Scott A. Parr, Lorraine M. Acevedo, Pamela Murray-Tuite, and Brian Wolshon

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Design and economic analysis of a hydrokinetic turbine for household applications, Carmen M. Puertas-Frías, Clinton S. Willson, and Pablo A. García-Salaberri

Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning, and Implementation, John L. Renne, Brian Wolshon, Anurag Pande, Pamela Murray-Tuite, and Karl Kim

Biomass Protein Decay Is a Source of Precursors for Microbially Mediated p-Cresol and Toluene Production in Groundwater Undergoing Enhanced Remediation for Treatment of Chlorinated Solvents, Samuel J. Reynolds, Alexis B. Gathings, and William M. Moe

A real-time hybrid simulation framework for floating offshore wind turbines, Chao Sun, Wei Song, and Vahid Jahangiri

Application of digital PCR for public health-related water quality monitoring, Ananda Tiwari, Warish Ahmed, Wendy J. Smith, Suzanne Metcalfe, Mikayla Stephens, Amy V. Jennison, and Frederick A. Moore

RESPONSE MITIGATION OF FLOATING PLATFORM BY POROUS-MEDIA TUNED LIQUID DAMPERS, Wen Huai Tsao, Ying Chuan Chen, Christopher E. Kees, and Lance Manuel

The Effect of Porous Media on Wave-Induced Sloshing in a Floating Tank, Wen-Huai Tsao, Ying-Chuan Chen, Christopher E. Kees, and Lance Manuel

Shear Performance of Steel Beams with Bonded GFRP Stiffeners: Weathering and Cyclic Load Effects, Tuna Ulger and Ayman M. Okeil

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Multi-objective optimization of aquifer storage and recovery operations under uncertainty via machine learning surrogates, Hamid Vahdat-Aboueshagh, Frank T.C. Tsai, Emad Habib, and T. Prabhakar Clement

Frictional Contact Between a Blunt Tool and Quasi-brittle Rock with Damage: Numerical Modeling, George Z. Voyiadjis and Yaneng Zhou

A new anisotropic elasto-plastic-damage model for quasi-brittle materials using strain energy equivalence, George Z. Voyiadjis, Yaneng Zhou, and Peter I. Kattan

Effects of Field Aging on Material Properties and Rutting Performance of Asphalt Pavement, Haoyang Wang, Yu Zhu, Vijaikrishnah Elango, John H. Pardue, Michael Blum, and Sunshine A. Van Bael

Revisiting undrained cavity expansion problem in critical state soils: A simple graph-based approach, Xu Wang and Shengli Chen

Bi-objective Extraction-injection Optimization Modeling for Saltwater Intrusion Control Considering Surrogate Model Uncertainty, Jina Yin, Frank T.C. Tsai, and Chunhui Lu