Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Development of performance-based wind engineering for residential structures: from concept to application
The majority of buildings and approximately 90% of residential structures in North America are light-frame wood construction. Many of these structures are subjected to high winds along the eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast ... -
Multicriteria decision support system to delineate water resources planning and management regions
The lack of uniform and integrated water resources regions that support sustainable water management within river basins is a critical issue. Overlapping and redundant efforts in planning and management result from conflicting ... -
Performance-base seismic design of woodframe buildings using non-linear time history analysis
Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) is a developing design methodology in the modern seismic design and research community and has already been applied to concrete and steel structures. However, the application to ... -
Hydraulic efficiency of grate and curb inlets for urban storm drainage
Stormwater runoff from an urban landscape is typically conveyed through networks comprised of streets, gutters, inlets, storm sewer pipes, and treatment facilities. Objectives of this research program included evaluating ... -
Shake table testing of concrete portal frame with high spray dryer ash (SDA) content
Significant research has been conducted in replacing part of the cement content in concrete by fly ash. This thesis presents the method and results of an experiment to study the seismic behavior of a concrete portal frame ... -
Comparison of regionalization methods for a process based hydrologic model in major river basins of Colorado
Distributed watershed models are increasingly used for management of scarce water resources around the world. However, the utility of these models in ungaged or poorly gaged basins is a major issue in the field of hydrological ... -
Model for evaluating the effectiveness and life cycle costs of stormwater best management practices
Structural best management practices (BMPs) are devices designed and implemented for the purpose of reducing or eliminating the effects of urbanization on receiving waters. Structural BMPs each have their own unique ... -
Integrated flood management model: a socio-technical systems approach to overcome institutional problems in Jakarta
Urban flooding is a systemic problem of urban areas in developing countries, which face other difficult problems of urbanization, social inequality, and environmental degradation. The threats may overwhelm the institutional ... -
General framework for a water quality knowledge and information network
The increasing pressure on water resources worldwide, due to growing demand, scarcity, and pollution, are leading to a shift from top-down models of management to interdisciplinary approaches and participatory processes, ... -
Under what conditions do parallel channel networks occur?
Geologists have long recognized that channel networks can deviate from a typical dendritic form when they develop under certain geologic or topographic constraints. One such deviation is the so-called parallel form, which ... -
Nitrate removal from groundwater using a reactive stream stabilization structure
Riparian zones that remove nitrate (NO3-) from groundwater play a significant role in protecting and improving the quality of receiving surface waters. Denitrification, the microbial conversion of NO3 to gaseous forms ... -
Framework for evaluating water quality information system performance
Water resource and water quality managers are being held increasingly accountable for the programs they manage. Much progress has been made in applying total systems perspectives to the design and operation of water quality ... -
Comparison of direct shear and triaxial tests for measurement of shear strength of sand
To ascertain the shear strength parameters of soils for engineering purposes is fundamental to soil mechanics and basic for designing earth-bearing and earth-retaining structures. Direct shear and triaxial tests are the ... -
Design of a water quality information system for source water assessment: a Denver Water case study, Denver, Colorado
The questions water quality information systems are being called upon to answer are changing as the management of water quality shifts from a historically point source control framework to investigation of non point sources ... -
First-year performance evaluation of a cold climate constructed wetland for wastewater treatment
A unique, subsurface flow (SF), constructed wetland pilot study was carried out at Highlands Presbyterian Camp located near Allenspark, Colorado. This site is located in a cold climate region at an elevation of 2530 m (8300 ... -
Watershed-based methodology for assessment of nonpoint source pollution from inactive mines
A watershed-based methodology for the screening-level assessment of nonpoint source pollution from inactive and abandoned metal mines (lAMs) was developed, tested, and evaluated in this study. The methodology is intended ... -
Determination of the water solubility of the fungicide chlorothalonil
A UV-Visible spectrophotometric analytical procedure was developed and used to measure the water solubility of chlorothalonil at temperatures ranging from 8.5 to 37.5 °C. The effect of formulation chemicals present in ... -
Improving hydrologic modeling of ungaged basins to support environmental flow management in a heterogeneous region
Environmental streamflow management can sustain aquatic ecosystems and the services they provide by reestablishing elements of the natural flow regime that are necessary for ecological health. One of the more difficult ... -
Surrogate modeling for efficient analysis and design of engineering systems
Surrogate models, trained using a data-driven approach, have been extensively used to approximate the input/output relationship for expensive high-fidelity models (e.g., large-scale physical experiments and high-resolution ... -
Nonlinear internal wave - topographic interaction and turbulent mixing using numerical simulations
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