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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | An analysis of the failure of the Westview diversion DAM | Stromness, Norman R. | Westview Dam (Redmond, Utah) dam failures; Utah; Redmon | The failure or the Westview Dam at Redmond, Utah, with an attempt to determine the causes there of, is the subject of this report. | 1950 |
| 2 |  | Acoustical modeling of construction jobsites with multiple operational machines for activity recognition and productivity analysis | Sherafat, Behnam | Acoustics; civil engineering; environmental engineering | Construction job sites are dynamic environments with various resources operating simultaneously. For most construction projects, a significant expense is the budget allocated to acquiring and renting heavy equipment. Carefully analyzing heavy equipment productivity rates and monitoring productive ti... | 2022 |
| 3 |  | Environmental processes controlling the fate and transport of new pesticide ingredients benoxacor and furilazole | Acharya, Saraswati Poudel | Approximately 242 million kg of herbicides is applied in the United States of America (USA) annually. Chloroacetamides are one of the commonly used herbicide classes in the USA. While herbicides prevent the growth of weeds, they can damage crops, resulting in so-called "herbicide injury." Recognitio... | 2018 | |
| 4 |  | Multi agency radiation survey and site investigation manual modeling of research facility at the University of Utah | Meyer, Roger E. | Decommissioning of a United States Army building at the University of Utah, revealed soil contamination from a failed wastewater drainpipe suspended under the building. The building had been used as a radioactive waste management facility from 1961 to 1995. Preliminary investigation found the drainp... | 1999 | |
| 5 |  | Design and optimization of a neutron radiography beamport capability with the University of Utah triga reactor | Hartos, Michael Joseph | The potential of employing the University of Utah 90-kWt TRIGA research reactor (UUTR) to generate a high-performance neutron imaging beamline is computationally investigated. The UUTR neutron beamline spectrum is profiled using 3-D Monte Carlo and deterministic SN radiation transport codes to asses... | 2021 | |
| 6 |  | Engineering investigation of the great Mormon tabernacle 1 | Brown, Vern Melvin & Legrand Haslam | tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah) building; details; drawings latter day saint tabernacles | When we first started our thesis, we had planned to make an analysis of the roof construction of the tabernacle, but upon conferring with Mr. Arthur Price, the church architect, we found that there wasn't a set of plans for the tabernacle, so we decided to make a set of working drawings. | 1940 |
| 7 |  | Engineering investigation of the great Mormon tabernacle 2 | Brown, Vern Melvin & Legrand Haslam | tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah) building; details; drawings latter day saint tabernacles | When we first started our thesis, we had planned to make an analysis of the roof construction of the tabernacle, but upon conferring with Mr. Arthur Price, the church architect, we found that there wasn't a set of plans for the tabernacle, so we decided to make a set of working drawings. | 1940 |
| 8 |  | A geographic information system (GIS)-Based analysis for predicting crash hotspots on freeway | Zoleikani, Roghayeh Goli | Transportation | This study is focused on the identification of crash hotspot locations based on historical crash frequency and spatial patterns, and the use of such information to not only estimate future crash frequencies but also predict detailed spatial crash distributions along a freeway corridor. The proposed ... | 2019 |
| 9 |  | Gas-solid based chlorination to support separation of actinides and transition metals from rare earths | Okabe, Parker Ken | A two-step chlorination process was developed to purify cerium metal by volatilizing select impurities. Metal Ce was melted together with impurities Al, Fe, Ga, Ta, and U at 0.1 to 0.4 wt% each. The first step to this purification process is hydriding, and the second step is simultaneous chlorinatio... | 2020 | |
| 10 |  | Developing signtures in uranium oxides for use in nuclear forensic science | Heffernan, Sean T. | In the present research, surface morphological differences of mixtures of triuranium octoxide (U3O8), synthesized from uranyl peroxide (UO4) and ammonium diuranate (ADU), were investigated. The purity of each sample was verified using powder X-ray diffractometry (p-XRD), and scanning electron micros... | 2020 | |
| 11 |  | Numerical analysis of full-scale tests on rammed aggregate piers | Ghodrati, Emad | The purpose of this research was to evaluate the uplift capacity of single Rammed Aggregate Piers (RAPs) using numerical analysis and compare the results to the measured values from Full-Scale Tests (FSTs) conducted in the field. Each single RAP, uplift plate, and surrounding matrix soil was analyze... | 2019 | |
| 12 |  | Probabilistic liquefaction hazard mapping of Davis County, Utah for An M 7.2 earthquake scenario | Adham, Nadereh | This study presents probabilistic liquefaction-induced ground failure maps for Davis County, Utah. The mapping project presented herein includes probabilistic liquefaction triggering maps along with probabilistic lateral spread maps using the state-of-the-art probabilistic liquefaction and lateral s... | 2019 | |
| 13 |  | A comparison of corrosion resistant reinforcement in moderately and highly corrosive conditions | Wright, John Willard | Civil engineering; materials science | Corrosion of conventional carbon steel reinforcement has caused structures in corrosive environments to deteriorate well before the end of their intended service life. Many alternative materials exist that are more resistant to electrochemical corrosion while providing similar structural performance... | 2019 |
| 14 |  | Numerical modeling of performance of highway bridge approach slabs and sleeper slabs | Pokhrel, Swastik | The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of service loading on bridge components that are associated in formation of "bumps": bridge approach slabs undergo deterioration due to consistent loading from the roadway traffic as well as the settlement of the embankment material underneath,... | 2019 | |
| 15 |  | Triple top line based asset management analysis approach to enhance sustain ability of water distribution systems | Lee, Seungyub | Addressing the urgency of aging water infrastructure, this dissertation introduces a new approach to aid the planning for sustainability of a water distribution network. The majority of water distribution systems (WDSs) in the United States (US) were constructed before 1945, and a major fraction of ... | 2019 | |
| 16 |  | A study on fecal pollution sources in Jordan River tributaries using microbial source tracking method | Karimi, Ahmed Fardeen | Fecal contamination; library independent method; microbial source tracking; surface water quality | Fecal contaminated waterbodies are detrimental to human and animal health. Therefore, a set of standardized parameters are defined to measure the quality of a waterbody. In fact, in the United States, many waterbodies are considered to be impaired as they do not meet the minimum designated water qua... | 2019 |
| 17 |  | Performance and bacterial community profiling of PAO/DPAO in an EBPR bench-top-reactor with synthetic fermentation system | Mackey, Brendan Joseph | To study the PAO and DPAO ecophysiology, a bench top EPBR batch reactor fed with primary effluent from Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility, supplied with additional carbon from a synthetic fermenter, operated for 168 days. Although the removal efficiencies varied throughout entire reactor oper... | 2019 | |
| 18 |  | Study of prokaryotes, their viruses, and interaction between them in the Great Salt Lake using bioinformatics - A metagenomic approach | Islam, Md Imdadul | Bacteriophages, a group of viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant biological entities on earth and play an outstanding role in microbial population dynamics in various ecosystems. Their potential as a driving force in the evolution of microbial communities through controlling the bacter... | 2019 | |
| 19 |  | Seismic rehabilitation of severely damaged reinforced concrete bridge columns using plastic hinge relocation | Wu, Ruoyang | An improved rapid seismic rehabilitation method for reinforced concrete (RC) columns was implemented for two severely damaged cast-in-place (CIP) concrete columns and two severely damaged precast concrete columns. The CIP columns had severe damage including concrete crushing, and longitudinal steel ... | 2018 | |
| 20 |  | Modeling hydrologic performance of bioretention for cold climates in storm water management model (SWMM) | Terry, Benjamin J. | With the aging water infrastructure becoming a concern, sustainable solutions have become a focus. Green stormwater infrastructure such as bioretention, pervious pavement, and green roofs are becoming more common solutions to this problem. Much of the research focus on these technologies focuses on ... | 2018 | |
| 21 |  | The development of quantitative signatures of uranium oxides for nuclear forensic analysis | Olsen, Adam M. | The field of nuclear forensics requires measurable signatures to provide information on the composition, intended use, or origin of unknown, interdicted nuclear materials. New signature development, for process history identification, are of interest to the nuclear forensics community. This research... | 2018 | |
| 22 |  | Freeway traffic optimal control with mixed connected automated vehicles and human driven vehicles | Zhang, Zhehao | It can be expected that connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) will coexist on the transportation network in a long period. Hence, to support various traffic control tasks, it is critical to develop a reliable model to understand the real-time traffic pattern in mixe... | 2019 | |
| 23 |  | Novel green processing of oil sands: from extraction of bitumen to treatment of byproducts | Zhao, Xinyue | Oil sand is an unconventional crude oil resource that contains bitumen, which can be recovered for oil production. Hot Water Extraction of bitumen from oil sands is used in Canada as the only commercialized method of extraction. However, it has not been proven for Utah oil sands, which are more diff... | 2018 | |
| 24 |  | Discovery of nuclear forensic signatures for the processing history of uranium oxides | Schwerdt, Ian James | Nuclear forensics is a discipline that was ushered in with the development of nuclear weapons and energy in the last century. It entails the analysis of nuclear and radioactive materials to determine the origin and history of a material of interest. A major focus of current nuclear forensics researc... | 2018 | |
| 25 |  | Development of an on-site method to determine water-to-cement ratio of concrete and mortar mixitures | Rishi, Avinash Rajesh | The water-to-cement (w/c) ratio of concrete and mortar mixtures is an important parameter that affects its strength and durability. Present quality control/quality assurance procedure involves methods that require significant time and require samples to be taken off-site. Accurate and quick determin... | 2019 |