School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Master of Science in Environmental Engineering, Master of Science (undesignated), and Doctor of Philosophy.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Georgia Transportation Institute (GTI) [5]
A consortium of Georgia universities active in transportation research and education. GTI is headquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology -
Georgia Water Resources Institute [1767]
The Georgia Water Resources Institute mission is to help improve water resources management in Georgia, the US, and the world through innovative new research, education, technology transfer, and information dissemination. -
Multimedia Environmental Simulations Laboratory (MESL) [8]
Multimedia Environmental Simulations Laboratory (MESL) was established in 1993 to provide scientific and technical expertise to government, educational and private organizations in the area of environmental simulation and ...
Collections in this community
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Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Documents [1]
Accreditation documents for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. -
Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AEES) Distinguished Lecturer Series [3]
Invited speakers to the College of Engineering, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Newsletter [5]
Newsletter of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Masters of Science Special Research Problems [1]
Special research problems in civil engineering -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering OSP Research Reports [482]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Strategic Planning Documents [6]
Strategic plans and program reviews from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Theses and Dissertations [1563]
Original work by students in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research Option Theses [4]
Research Thesis Option for Civil and Environmental Engineering Majors
Recent Submissions
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Regional air quality management aspects of global change: impact of climate-responsive controls and forest management practices on regional air quality and associated uncertainties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-12)The overarching objective of this study is to provide information as to which global change-related control choices and forest management and utilization practices are most effective for both mitigating climate change and ... -
USING AUTOMATED PASSENGER COUNTER DATA TO UNDERSTAND RIDERSHIP CHANGE ON A ZONAL BASIS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-30)This study aims at understanding various issues or gaps in working with Automated Passenger Counter (APC) data and suggests a step-by-step process of cleaning the data in a format that can be used to answer research questions ... -
MEASUREMENTS OF ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY IN COLD-ROLLED AND HEAT-TREATED 304 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL USING NONLEANER ULTRASOUND
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-30)In energy industry, austenitic stainless steels have been used in a number of different applications. Their excellent mechanical properties, good formability, and high corrosion resistance make them a popular candidate ... -
Transit Service Planning for Georgia's Rural Counties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-30)This thesis aims to improve our understanding of transit offerings in rural environments. Specifically, it uses ridership analysis to discover trends in rural transit ridership in the State of Georgia and offers recommendations ... -
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PHASE INVERSION MEMBRANE WITH MOS2
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-24)The aim of the project is to synthesize and characterize phase inversion membrane with MoS2 and find the best way to reach its best performance. MoS2 is used as a nanocomposite to improvement membrane performance. MoS2 ... -
New framework to evaluate soil behavior during and after liquefaction from particle level responses
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-29)As a worldwide major hazard, soil liquefaction has drawn the attention of the geotechnical researchers in the past several decades. To date, the nature of soil liquefaction has not yet been fully understood due to the high ... -
Pathways to Improving Traditional Travel Behavior Models with Travel-based Multitasking and Attitudinal Data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-01)Transportation is undergoing extensive systemic changes: Information technologies are permeating through both transportation modes and people’s activity patterns, as vehicle automation and ride-hailing/sharing platforms ... -
EFFECTIVE STRESS STRENGTH OF CLAYS EVALUATED FROM PIEZOCONE AND FLAT DILATOMETER TESTS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-29)EFFECTIVE STRESS STRENGTH OF CLAYS EVALUATED FROM PIEZOCONE AND FLAT DILATOMETER TESTS Zhongkun Ouyang 561 Pages Directed by Dr. Paul W. Mayne During geotechnical site investigations involving clay deposits, results from ... -
Engineered Transition Zone Systems for Enhanced Heat Transfer in Thermo-Active Foundations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-26)Results are presented from both field and laboratory studies on the thermal properties Piedmont residual soils, as well as a numerical model and a laboratory scale physical model, to demonstrate the potential for improvement ... -
MICRO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF QUASI-STATIC PARTICULATE FRAGMENTATION APPLIED TO GEOMATERIALS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-02-27)Despite the progress made on modeling granular mechanics at the macro-scale, discriminating the mechanisms that control particle breakage within a particulate assembly is still an open issue. In this thesis, we analyze ... -
An Observational and Modeling Study of the Energy, Water, and Carbon Cycle at Calhoun Critical Zone
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-01-09)This study investigates the evolution of the energy, water, and carbon cycle due to land-use change at Calhoun critical zone (CCZ) using field observations and modeling results of eco-hydro-meteorological variables. Land-use ... -
Sustainable Solution to Recycled Concrete: Improving Structural Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-06)Construction and demolition (C&D) or debris concrete is an underutilized resource often landfilled or recycled as a non-structural fill material. This study’s main objective is to examine the potential to expand reuse ... -
DIGITAL IMAGE-BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-05)Employing multiscale approaches provides an innovative solution to advancing the understanding of macro-geomechanical phenomena by capturing quantitative structure information of geomaterials at the particle-pore scale. ... -
A STATEWIDE ASSESMENT OF AREAS TRENDING URBAN IN GEORGIA AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSIT FUNDING
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-22)There are two main sources of funding for public transit that depend on Decennial Census populations. Rural (urban) transit funding is for areas with populations less than (more than) 50,000. Urban funding is further ... -
INSIGHTS INTO ALKALI-SILICA REACTION AND DELAYED ETTRINGITE FORMATION THROUGH ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-09)Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) and delayed ettringite formation (DEF) are expansive chemical reactions, which can damage concrete structures. However, for both ASR and DEF, the relationships between constituent materials, ... -
Integrated Assessment of Multi-Sensor Gridded Data Products for Agricultural and Hydrological Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-29)New remote sensing and gridded reanalysis data products from sources including the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission, Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, North American Land Data Assimilation ... -
Fluid driven transition from damage to fracture in anisotropic porous media - a multiscale XFEM approach
(2019)In this paper, a numerical method is proposed to simulate multiscale fracture propagation driven by fluid injection in transversely isotropic porous media. Intrinsic anisotropy is accounted for at the continuum scale, by ... -
Development of quantitative structure-activity relationship for prediction of biological effects of nanoparticles associated with semiconductor industries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-03)Our work aims at development of fundamental understanding of cytotoxicity of semiconductor NPs to human health and provides a comprehensive database and clear definition of ESH-problematic manufactured nanomaterials. Based ... -
Three Considerations for Modeling Natural Gas System Methane Emissions in Life Cycle Assessment
(Elsevier, 2019-03-13)Natural gas is a fossil fuel accounting for about 30% of US primary energy consumption. Climate change is one of the primary environmental issues associated with natural gas use: natural gas combustion releases carbon ... -
DEM modelling of sequential fragmentation of zeolite granules under oedometric compression based on XCT observations
(Elsevier, 2019)The objective of our research is to define a new Discrete Element Method (DEM) that can describe the processes involved in particle breakage and the resulting macroscopic behaviour of the particulate assembly, by directly ...
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