• A perspective on Darcy's law across the scales: from physical foundations to particulate mechanics 

  O’Sullivan, Catherine; Arson, Chloé; Coasne, Benoît (2022)

  This paper puts forward a perspective or opinion that we can demonstrate Darcy’s law is valid at any scale where fluid can be modeled/analyzed as a continuum. Darcy’s law describes the flow of a fluid through a porous ...

• A Transfer Learning-Based Framework for Enriching National Household Travel Survey Data with Attitudinal Variables 

  Malokin, Aliaksandr; Mokhtarian, Patricia L.; Circella, Giovanni (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06)

  Often in practice, the problem of unavailability of specific desired knowledge within one (“target”) dataset arises. However, if this knowledge can be extracted from a different (“source”) dataset and transferred between ...

• Experimental and Analytical Investigations of Doubly Symmetric Built-Up I-Girders with Large Moment Gradient Factors 

  Phillips, Matthew Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)

  Recent computational studies have shown that the current AISC Design Specifications (2016) overpredict the flexural resistance of certain built-up I-girders. The largest reductions were observed in I-girders subjected to ...

• STRUCTURAL TESTING OF NON-PROPRIETARY UHPC FOR CLOSURE POURS BETWEEN PRECAST BRDIGE DECK PANELS 

  Fish, Griffin Kylan (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)

  Many bridges in the United States are in need of some sort of rehabilitation, repair, or replacement. However, the three broad solutions mentioned are expensive both in their direct and indirect costs. In order to help ...

• Fracture and Residual Capacity of Steel Bolted Connections Subjected to Singular and Consecutive Impulsive Loads 

  Warren, Maria E. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)

  Civil structures may be subjected to high-magnitude, short-duration loads in scenarios such as weapons attacks or accidental explosions. Both during and after an impulse, the integrity of a structure is dependent on the ...

• Accelerated assessment of candidate supplementary cementitious materials using statistics and machine learning 

  Rios, Renee (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-14)

  The supply of the most traditional supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) used in concrete is not expected to keep up with demand in the coming years. To combat this problem, a wider range of both naturally occurring ...

• Re-Think the Streets: An Evaluation of Green Street Practices as a Method to Achieve Combined Sewer Separation 

  Krieger, Jenna Elizbeth (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-19)

  Older cities across the United States have been grappling with how to mitigate stormwater for decades. The ongoing trend of land development coupled with the heightened frequency and intensity of storm events has necessitated ...

• Symmetry-adapted density functional theory 

  Sharma, Abhiraj (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-03-14)

  One-dimensional nanostructures such as nanotubes, nanowires, and nanocoils have received increased attention over the past three decades due to their fascinating mechanical, electronic, optical, and thermal properties. It ...

• Real-space density functional theory at large length and time scales 

  Xu, Qimen (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-18)

  Over the course of the past few decades, quantum mechanical calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) have become a cornerstone of materials research by virtue of the predictive power and fundamental ...

• Deep Learning in Ultrasonic Wave Inversion for Thin Coatings 

  Schmitz, Maximilian (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-14)

  This research focuses on the use of machine and deep learning to non-destructively characterize the quality of a coating in a layered system in terms of thickness and uniformness. The coating's parameters (thickness and ...

• KINETIC MODELING TO PROBE THE ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES IN A FE(II)-PAA-ABTS, A FE(VI)-PAA AND A FE(VI)-AMINE SYSTEMS 

  Sadhasivan, Manasa (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-11)

  Pharmaceuticals are one of the major groups of emerging environmental contaminants in recent years. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are known to be more efficient than conventional treatment processes in the degradation ...

• QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF ENTERIC PATHOGENS AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES IN AEROSOLS NEAR URBAN WASTE FLOWS 

  Ginn, Olivia C. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)

  Unsafe water and sanitation enable the transmission of enteric pathogens from infected individuals to new susceptible hosts through direct contact and/or through the environment via multiple pathways. While a rich and ...

• Navigating through space in turbulence tubes: copepod responses to Burgers vortex 

  Elmi, Dorsa (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)

  A physical model of a Burgers vortex was created in the laboratory with characteristics corresponding to dissipative-scale eddies that copepods are likely to encounter in turbulent flows. The swimming behavior of three ...

• Effects of sanitation on child growth, enteric infection, and carriage of antimicrobial resistance genes in rural Cambodia 

  Lai, Amanda Justine (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)

  Sanitation infrastructure is critical to supporting the environment and is a foundation of public health. Globally, over two billion people lack access to any sanitation facility. Children in low- and middle-income countries ...

• Significant contrasts of aerosol acidity between China and the United States 

  Zhang, Bingqing (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-22)

  Aerosol acidity governs several key processes in aerosol physics and chemistry, thus affecting aerosol mass and composition, and ultimately the climate and human health. Previous studies have reported aerosol pH values ...

• System and process design of the locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) for water disinfection 

  Zhou, Jianfeng (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-26)

  Disinfection is a water treatment process designed to inactivate waterborne pathogens and enhance overall public health. Conventional disinfection methods suffer from the formation of carcinogenic by-products, microbial ...

• Distributive justice impact assessment using activity-based modeling with path retention 

  Zhao, Yingping (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-25)

  Sustainable transportation policies seek to change people’s travel behavior by modifying the travel environment. However, the impacts of many such policies are complex and difficult to evaluate. Policy benefits and burdens ...

• Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes for Water Treatment: Membrane Synthesis and Transport Mechanism Exploration 

  Liu, Su (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-19)

  Water is a necessity in people’s life. In the 21st century, the water shortage has become one of the global challenges. The limited freshwater resource, the population growth, and climate change exaggerate the situation. ...

• Analysis of the Georgia Add-on to the 2016-2017 National Household Travel Survey 

  Kash, Gwen; Mokhtarian, Patricia L.; Circella, Giovanni (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08)

  Through an extensive analysis of the Georgia subsample of the 2016–2017 National Household Travel Survey, this report provides an in-depth snapshot of the travel behavior of Georgians of all ages. It documents differences ...

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