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Title: Design of a combined sewer system for the village of Peotone Will County Illinois
Creator: Israel, Henry F, Opper, George L
Date: 2009, 1913
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofcombined00isra
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1913 B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1913

Title: The design of a cellular reinforced concrete dam for the Kensico Reservoir of the New York Catskill Mt. water supply
Creator: Frank, Julian
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofcellular00fran
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 3

Title: Design of a coal yard of concrete construction
Creator: Compton, F. N., Moeller, A., Johnson, V. E
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofcoalyard00comp
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes folded leaves in back pocket;...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes folded leaves in back pocket; Bibliography: leaf 63
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Title: Design of a concrete elevator
Creator: Rylander, Paul
Date: 2009, 1913
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofconcrete00ryla
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1913 B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1913

Title: Design of a steel railroad bridge
Creator: Cahan, J.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofsteelrai00caha
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Design of summit switch yard for I.C. R. R., Chicago division
Creator: Harger, K., Holmboe, R., Packer, C. S., Schram, I. H.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofsummitsw00harg
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Design of the steel skeleton for an office building
Creator: Collins, C. W.
Date: 2009, 1912
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofsteelske00coll
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Design of a three span double track reinforced concrete railroad arch bridge
Creator: Millard, Chauncey S, Haggander, G. A.
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofthreespa00mill
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Design of a standard reinforced concrete railway trestle
Creator: Wolfe, T. F.
Date: 1912
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: BOND STRENGTH COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT SUBSTRATE PREPARATIONS AND VARIOUS BONDING AGENTS USED IN CONCRETE OVERLAYS AND ENLARGEMENTS
Creator: Eberhardt, Keith
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: The bond interface line of concrete overlays and enlargements has been the focus of engineers, contractors, and manufacturers for many years....
Show moreThe bond interface line of concrete overlays and enlargements has been the focus of engineers, contractors, and manufacturers for many years. Many products and procedures have been developed to help the contractor and engineering community achieve the highest bond strength of the repair material to the host material, or substrate, to provide a quality, long-lasting repair. It is well known that the difference between a successful overlay or enlargement and one that fails can be directly linked to the preparation of the bonding surface. The objective of this study is to compare what concrete removal techniques, or surface preparations, in conjunction with bonding conditions and agents have on achieving the best direct tensile and guillotine test results. A unique step of this research is to use an overlay material with the same mix design as the base slab. Most overlay materials are stronger and do not use the same coarse aggregate and cement. By having the substrate and the overlay concrete the same material, a true test of the bond can be accomplished as the core samples should fail in both the substrate and overlay. This study consisted of four concrete slabs that were poured and allowed to naturally cure for a full year. Afterwards, each slab used a different method to remove up to two and one-half inches of the substrate concrete to prepare for the overlay. Removal methods used were hydrodemolition, pneumatic impact hammers, abrasive blasting and a control slab that consisted of a light broom finish. Each panel was then divided into four sections and a different surface condition or bonding agent was applied to the substrate just prior to the placement of the overlay. The surface conditions and agents used were dry, surface-saturated dry (SSD), sand/cement slurry and an epoxy and cementitious material. After the overlay was placed, the overlaid test panels were allowed to remain in place and naturally cure for an additional year before test samples were taken. Results supported that any impact blow force to the surface yielded the worst results by almost 50% for both direct tensile and guillotine tests. Even a change in bonding agents could not overcome the damage to the surface of the base slab. These results support years of similar test reporting. There was no increase in test results using a bonding agent on any of the prepared slabs. The results were similar, and in some cases, less than a surface that was dry or SSD. The highest and most consistent results came from the slab that was either dry or SSD. Results indicate that a dry surface that is prepared with either abrasive blasting or hydrodemolition may yield the most consistent results as all other bonding conditions and agents are subject to difficulty in measuring the application accurately and can be highly susceptible to evaporation rates and variations in multiple mixing operations. A well prepared, clean, dry surface will yield the greatest and most consistent failure results and is the easiest to monitor and duplicate in field conditions.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, May 2017
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Title: The effect of adding spiral reinforcing to vertically reinforced concrete columns
Creator: Hallstein, Walter., Boetter, Carl L.
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/effectofaddingsp00hall
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1914 Bibliography: leaf 22 B.S. in Civil...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1914 Bibliography: leaf 22 B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1914
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Title: OPEN SOURCE BUILDING SCIENCE SENSORS (OSBSS) : A LOW-COST ARDUINO-BASED PLATFORM FOR LONG-TERM DATA COLLECTION IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Creator: Ali, Akram Syed
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: Accurate characterization of building characteristics that influence indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal comfort, and energy consumption in...
Show moreAccurate characterization of building characteristics that influence indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal comfort, and energy consumption in buildings is often limited to the use of proprietary hardware and software, which can adversely affect both functionality and costs. In response, the Open Source Building Science Sensors (OSBSS) project was launched to design and develop a network of inexpensive open source devices based on the Arduino platform for measuring and recording long-term indoor environmental and building operational data. The project includes a variety of sensors and dataloggers designed to assess energy, comfort, and air quality in buildings, including air and surface temperatures, air relative humidity, surface water activity, human occupancy and activity, light intensity, CO2, and a generic datalogger that can log data from other sensors such as HVAC system pressure sensors for determining system airflow rates or runtimes. The development, calibration, and performance of the sensor network is being documented in its entirety and made available freely online along with detailed tutorials designed to allow other researchers to incorporate the sensors in both ongoing and future investigations of energy, air quality, and comfort in the built environment. The OSBSS network of devices will ultimately allow for more flexibility in synchronizing a large number of measurements with high spatial and temporal resolution in a more cost effective manner for use in research projects and building automation and control.
M.S. in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, May 2015
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Title: Bonding strength of concrete and steel
Creator: Webb, A. R., Wilsey, G. H.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/bondingstrengtho00webb
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaves. 26-27

Title: Bond stress of lap reinforced concrete beams
Date: 2009, 1911
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/bondstressoflapr00emin
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: The development and design of mill constructed buildings
Creator: Leichenko, P. M., Loewenberg, M. L.
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/developmentdesig00leic
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Developement of track work
Creator: Lichtner, O.
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/developementoftr00lich
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Plans, specifications and cost of elevation of a portion of the tracks of the H. & N. RY.
Creator: Heinsen, G. M., Young, L. B.
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/plansspecificati00hein
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: A BAYESIAN UPDATING APPROACH IN STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING FOR DAMAGE DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT
Creator: Dirbaz, Mojtaba
Date: 2013, 2013-05
Description: The primary goal of Bridge Condition Assessment (BCA) is to determine the condition of a bridge to prevent any catastrophic failure as well as...
Show moreThe primary goal of Bridge Condition Assessment (BCA) is to determine the condition of a bridge to prevent any catastrophic failure as well as to enhance the structure’s safety and serviceability. The structural health and condition of in-service bridges is generally assessed through visual inspections and nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT/NDE) methods conducted on a pre-set schedule. However, the ratings obtained from current visual inspections on a bridge are subjective, and do not include the uncertainty inherent in the results. Moreover, the condition ratings are often based on independent inspections and do not take into account the dependence of results on previous conditions of a bridge and prior condition ratings compiled for it. Furthermore, there is also a certain level of uncertainty involved in relating subjective ratings to the actual condition of the bridge. This study is aimed at conducting a research on damage detection of existing bridges utilizing available information on their structural conditions. The first part of the research focuses on a new method for assessing the condition of a bridge based on subjective ratings obtained for the bridge. This method will hereafter be referred to as Bayesian Bridge Condition Assessment (BBCA). BBCA consists of three parts: (1) identification of condition states for structural components, (2) determination of a Damage Index (DI), a parameter to describe the extent of damage to a structural component, and (3) determination of an Updated Damage Index (UDI) using Bayesian updating approach. UDI offers an enhanced measure that incorporates not only the relation between subjective rating and the structure’s health condition, but also the significance of new information as it becomes available. The basic assumptions and x general formulations of the Bayesian updating method is presented. Numerical illustrations are provided to demonstrate the applicability of the method to highway bridges. It is shown that the method described in this study is especially applicable to bridges for which visual inspection data are compiled on a periodic basis. One of the methodologies for damage detection and assessment is to use sensor data for identifying the modal characteristics of the structure. The second part of this research focuses on improving upon damage detection methods using sensor and/or modal data. Thus a new method for damage detection and assessment of structures using finite element analysis, and modal data is developed and demonstrated. This method will hereafter be referred to as Bayesian Structural Condition Assessment (BSCA). Using this method, (1) a Finite Element (FE) design model of the structure (undamaged) is constructed; (2) the measured modal data is updated using a Bayesian framework; and (3) the FE model of existing structure (with possibility of damage) is obtained using updated modal data based on an iterative optimization method that is used in estimating the stiffness of the damaged structure. Using these steps, the location and extent of any possible damage is then determined based on the difference between a structural element stiffness for the “as built condition” and “damaged condition.” Several numerical illustrations are presented to demonstrate the capability of the method to detect the location and extent of the damage. This method has been applied to a structural health monitoring benchmark problem; and it has been shown that it can identify the location and extent of damage with more accuracy than most other existing models. Keywords: Bayesian Updating, Condition Assessment of Structures, Modal Data, Visual Inspections, Finite Element Model, Bridges
PH.D in Structural Engineering, May 2013
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Title: A direct lift-bridge over the outlet of Black Lake near Holland, Mich.
Creator: Deitenbeck, Max
Date: 2009, 1916
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/directliftbridge00deit
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes bibliographical references (leaf...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes bibliographical references (leaf 112) and index
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Title: Development and use of structural gypsum
Creator: Smith, H. F., Jedamske, H. E.
Date: 2009, 1918
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/developmentuseof00smit
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

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