Publications and Reports: 2005 to 2006
Computer-Aided Engineering
P.O. Kaplan, M. A. Barlaz, and S.R. Ranjithan, "The Application of Life-Cycle Analysis to Integrated Solid Waste Management," AEESP Frontiers Conference, Potsdam, NY, July 25-27, 2006.
S.V. Kumar, T.A. Doby, J.W. Baugh, Jr., E.D. Brill, Jr., and S.R. Ranjithan, "Optimal Design of Redundant Water Distribution Networks Using a Cluster of Workstations," Journal of Water Resources Planning and Managaement, ASCE (in press).
B.T. Kolera and L.E. Bernold, "An Intelligent Utility Locating Tool for Excavators," J. Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., ASCE, 2005 (accepted for publication).
S. Nuntasunti and L.E. Bernold, "Experimental Assessment of Wireless Construction Technologies," J. Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., ASCE, 2004 (accepted for publication).
L.E. Bernold, "Accident Prevention Through Equipment-Mounted Buried Utility Sensors", Int. e-Journal in Construction, M.E. Rinker School of Building Const., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 2005 (http://www.bcn.ufl.edu/iejc/pindex/0831/b.pdf)
B. Li and L.E. Bernold, "Technological Intervention to Eliminate Deaths During Pipe-Installation," Int. e-Journal of Construction, M.E. Rinker School of Building Const., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, August 2005 (http://www.bcn.ufl.edu/iejc/pindex/0831/d.pdf).
D.G. Harper and L.E. Bernold, "Success of Supplier Alliances for Capital Projects," J. Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt., ASCE, Vol 131, No. 9, Sept., pp. 979-985, 2005.
T.P. Williams, L.E. Bernold, and H. Lu, "A Survey of the Use of Wireless and Web-Based Technologies in Construction," Earth & Space 2006, ASCE, League City, TX, March 5-8, 2006, Paper CD 40830-13054.
L.E. Bernold and H. Benaroya,"ISRUs on Moon and Mars Create Synergistic Interdependencies," Earth & Space 2006, ASCE, League City, TX, March 5-8, 2006, Paper CD 40830-13158.
L.E. Bernold, "Effective Processing of GPR Data to Investigate the Sub-Space," Earth & Space 2006, ASCE, League City, TX, March 5-8, 2006, Paper CD 40830-13118.
L.E. Bernold, "Ubiquitous Communication to Link Islands of Information in Construction," Earth & Space 2006, ASCE, League City, TX, March 5-8, 2006, Paper CD 40830-13138.
J.S. Fu, E.D. Brill, and S. Ranjithan, "Conjunctive Use of Models to Design Cost-Effective Ozone Control Strategies," Jour. of the Air and Waste Management Association, Vol. 56, July, 2006 (in press).
A.H. Heidari and M.N. Guddati, "Highly Accurate Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Wide Angle Wave Equations," Geophysics, 2006 (in press).
A. Zahid and M.N. Guddati, "Padded Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundaries for Dispersive Waves," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2006 (in press).
M.N. Guddati, "Arbitrarily Wide Angle Wave Equations for Complex Media," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195, pp. 65-73, 2006.
M.N. Guddati and K.W. Lim, "Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Convex Polygonal Domains," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 66, pp.949-977, 2006.
B.S. Underwood, A.H. Heidari, M.N. Guddati and Y.R. Kim, "Experimental Investigation of Anisotropy in Asphalt Concrete," Transportation Research Record, 1929, pp. 238-247, 2005.
B. Yue and M.N. Guddati, "Dispersion Reducing Finite Elements for Transient Acoustics," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, pp. 2132-2141, 2005.
M. N. Guddati and A.H. Heidari, "Migration with Arbitrarily Wide Angle Wave Equations," Geophysics, 70(3), pp. S61-S70, 2005.
Y.R. Kim, T.Y. Yun and M. Guddati, "Modeling of the Behavior of Hot Mix Asphalt in Compression," Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper No. 06-2993, January 2006.
A.H. Heidari and M.N. Guddati, "Effective Damage Detection Using Coupled Elastic One-way Wave Equations," ICCES '05: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Chennai, India, 6 pages, December 2005.
M.A. Zahid and M.N. Guddati, "Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Transient Elastic Wave Propagation Modeling," ICCES '05: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Chennai, India, 6 pages, December 2005.
A.H. Heidari and M.N. Guddati, "Coupled Space-domain Elastic Migration in Heterogeneous Media," Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) - 75th Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, pp. 1826-1829, November 2005.
S.A. Wirgau, A. Gupta, and V.C. Matzen, "Internet-Enabled Remote Observation and Control of a Shake Table Experiment," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 20 (4): 1-10, 2006.
A. Gupta, and B. Choi, "Consideration of Uncertainties in Seismic Analysis of Coupled Building-Piping Systems," Nuclear Engineering and Design, 235: 2071-2086, 2005.
A. Gupta, P. Kripakaran, G. Mahinthakumar, and J. W. Baugh Jr., "Genetic Algorithm-based Decision Support for Optimizing Seismic Response of Piping Systems," Journal of Structural Engineering, 131(3):389-98, 2005.
P. Kripakaran, A.Gupta, and V.C. Matzen, "Software Architectures for Remotely Operable Civil Engineering Laboratories," 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006 (accepted for publication and presentation).
G. Mahinthakumar and M. Sayeed, "Reconstructing Groundwater Source Release Histories using Hybrid Optimization Approaches," Journal of Environmental Forensics, 7(1): 45-54, March 2006.
G. Mahinthakumar, G.R. Moline, and O.F. Webb, "An analysis of Periodic Tracers for Subsurface Characterization," Water Resources Research, 41(12), W12426, doi:10.1029/2005WR004190, 13 pages, December 2005.
M. Sayeed and G. Mahinthakumar, "An Efficient Parallel Implementation of Hybrid Optimization Approaches for Solving Groundwater Inverse Problems," ASCE Journal of Computing, 19(4): 329-340, October 2005.
P. Worley, J. Candy, L. Carrington, K. Huck, T. Kaiser, G. Mahinthakumar, A. Malony, D. Reed, P. Roth, S. Shan, S. Shande, A. Snavely, S. Sreepathi, and Y. Zhang, "Performance Analysis of GYRO: A Tool Evaluation," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 16: 251-255, 2005.
G. Mahinthakumar, G. von Laszewski, S. Ranjithan, E. D. Brill, J. Uber, K. W. Harrison, S. Sreepathi, and E. M. Zechman, "An Adaptive Cyberinfrastructure for Threat Management in Urban Water Distribution Systems," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 401-408, 2006.
K. Raghavachar, G. Mahinthakumar, P. A. Worley, E.M. Zechman, and R. Ranjithan, "Parallel Performance Modeling Using a Genetic pProgramming Based Error Correction Procedure," Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium 2006, Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Huntsville, AL, ISBN 1-56555-304-7, p. 221-226, April 2-6, 2006.
B. Mirghani, G. Mahinthakumar, and R. Ranjithan, "A Grid-enabled Simulation-Optimization Approach for Solving Groundwater Characterization Problems," Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, 12 pages, Montreal, Canada, June 14-15, 2006.
H. Mitasova, M. Overton, and R. Harmon, "Geospatial Analysis of a Coastal Sand Dune Field Evolution: Jockey's Ridge, North Carolina," Geomorphology, 72: 204-221, 2005.
M.F. Overton, H. Mitasova, N. Vanderbeke, and J.J. Recalde, "Morphological Evolution of a Shoreline on a Decadal Time Scale," 30th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, San Diego, CA, September 2006, November 2006 (accepted)
M.E. Tryby, B. Mirghani, N. Karonis, D. Baessler, R. Ranjithan, and G. Mahinthakumar, "LASSO: A Grid-enabled Simulation Optimization Framework," 5 pages, Proceedings of Grid 2005 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (CD-ROM), Seattle, WA, November 13-14, 2005.
S.M. Rahman, T. Hassan, and S.R. Ranjithan, "Automated Parameter Determination of Advanced Cyclic Plasticity Models," Proceedings of ASME PVP2005 - Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Denver, CO, July 17-21, 2005.
R.Z. Sarica and M.S. Rahman, "Seismic Response Characteristics of Sand Sites Using Wavelets," Proceedings of 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, April 2006.
R.Z. Sarica and M.S. Rahman, "Analysis of Ground Motion: A Comparison of Some Available Methods," Geo-Congress 2006, Atlanta, February 2006.
R.Z. Sarica and M.S. Rahman, "Interpretation of Seismic Response of Sites Using Wavelet Transform," Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Applications of Wavelets to Real World Problems, 259-270, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2005.
E.M. Zechman and S. Ranjithan, "Generating Alternatives using Evolutionary Algorithms for Water Resources and Environmental Management Problems," Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management (in press).
W.J. Rasdorf, J.E. Hummer, S.C. Vereen, and H. Cai, "A Quantitative Evaluation of the Nighttime Visual Sign Inspection Method, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2005.
A.R. Pradhan, D.F. Laefer, and W. Rasdorf, "Infrastructure Management System Framework Requirements for Disasters," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006 (in press).
W. Rasdorf, H. Cai, C. Tilley, L.C. Smith, and F. Robson, "GIS/DEM Route Mileage Verification," Journal of Surveying Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 132(1): 40-49, February 2006.
W. Rasdorf, O. Abudayyeh, A. Dibert-DeYoung, and H. Melhem, H., "Research Publication Trends and Topics in Computing in Civil Engineering," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 20(1): 2-12, January/February 2006.
D. Laefer, W. Rasdorf, and A.R. Pradhan, "Tools and Techniques for the Technological Integration of Multi-Hazard Post-Incident Assessment," Technical Report CMS-0353175, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, January 2006.
E.A. Harris, W. Rasdorf, and D. Laefer, "Determining Disaster Data Management Needs in a Multi-Disaster Context," Workshop Technical Report CMS-0451461, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, December 2005.
A. Kuriatnyk, and W.J. Rasdorf, "Application and Assessment of Hansen Software for Naval Material Management," Technical Report, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, December 2005.
W.J. Rasdorf, "Publication Changes, Journal Content, and the Editorial Board," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 19(1): 1, January/February 2006.
J.W. Horner and J.R. Stone, "Impact on Travel Behavior of Proximity to Major Urban Centers," Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 85th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, Washington, DC, January 2006.
J.R. Stone, Y. Han and R. Ramkumar, North Carolina Forecasts for Truck Traffic, North Carolina Department of Transportation, Raleigh, NC, 188 pages, March 2006.


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