Publications and Reports: 2006 to 2007
Computer-Aided Engineering
K. Broad, A. Pfaff, R. Taddei, A. Sankarasubramanian, and U. Lall, "Climate, Streamflow Prediction and Water Management in North East Brazil," Climatic Change, 2007 (accepted for publication).
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.
M.A. Barlaz, P. O. Kaplan, and S. Ranjithan, "The Application of Life-Cycle Analysis for Solid Waste Management in Delaware, USA," Annual Congress of the International Solid Waste Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-4, 2006, 10 pgs.
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, 132(5), pp 374-384, 2006.
J.S. Fu, E. D. Brill, and S. Ranjithan, "Conjunctive Use of Models to Design Cost-Effective Ozone Control Strategies," Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, Vol. 56, 6, pp. 800-809, 2006.
L. Liu, E.M. Zechman, E.D. Brill, Jr., G. Mahinthakumar, S. Ranjithan, and J. Uber, "Adaptive Contamination Source Identification in Water Distribution Systems Using an Evolutionary Algorithm-based Dynamic Optimization Procedure," Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, August 2006, 9 pgs.
J. Kumar, E.M. Zechman, E.D. Brill, G. Mahinthakumar, S. Ranjithan, and J. Uber, " Non-Uniqueness in Contaminant Source Characterization Based on Sensors with Event Detection Methods , World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, Tampa, FL, 2007, 6 pgs.
E.M. Zechman, E.D. Brill, Jr., G. Mahinthakumar, S. Ranjithan, and J. Uber, "Addressing Non-uniqueness in a Water Distribution Contaminant Source Identification Problem," 11th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium, 11 p., Cincinnati, OH, August 2006, 11 pgs.
L. Liu, E.M. Zechman, E. D. Brill, G. Mahinthakumar, J. Uber, and S. Ranjithan, "Considering Demand Variability and Measurement Uncertainties in Adaptive Source Characterization in Water Distribution Networks," Proceedings of the ASCE/EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Tampa Florida, May 15-18, 2007, 8 pgs.
J. Kumar, E.M. Zechman, E.D. Brill, G. Mahinthakumar, S. Ranjithan, and J. Uber, "Addressing Non-uniqueness in Source Characterization for Multiple Contaminant Source Scenario in Water Distribution Systems," World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, Tampa, FL, 2007.
Li Liu, E.D. Brill, G. Mahinthakumar, J. Uber, E.M. Zechman, S. Ranjithan, "Effects of Measurement Uncertainties on Adaptive Source Characterization in Water Distribution Networks," World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, Tampa, FL, 2007.
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.
A.H. Heidari and M.N. Guddati, "Highly Accurate Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Wide Angle Wave Equations," Geophysics 71(2), pp. S85-S97, 2006.
A. Zahid and M.N. Guddati, "Padded Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundaries for Dispersive Waves," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 195, pp. 3797-3819, 2006.
A. Zahid and M.N. Guddati, "Padded Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundaries for Dispersive Waves," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 195, pp. 3797-3819, 2006.
B.S. Underwood, Y.R. Kim, and M.N. Guddati, "Characterization and Performance Prediction of ALF Mixtures Using a Viscoelastoplastic Continuum Damage Model," Journal of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 75, pp. 577-636, 2006.
M.N. Guddati, "Perfectly Matched Layers and Absorbing Boundary Conditions: Unification of Concepts," COMPDYN2007: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Crete, Greece, June 2007.
M.N. Guddati, K.W. Lim and M.A. Zahid, “Perfectly Matched Discrete Layers for Unbounded Domain Modeling,” Computational Methods for Acoustics, Ed. F. Mogoules, Saxe-Coburg, London (invited book chapter), 2007.
M.N. Guddati and A.H. Heidari, "Subsurface Imaging via Fully Coupled Elastic Wavefield Extrapolation," Inverse Problems 23(1), pp. 73-98, 2007.
A.H. Heidari and M.N. Guddati, "Novel Finite-element Based Subsurface Imaging Algorithms," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 43(5), pp. 411-422, 2007.
M. Dawood, M. Guddati and S. Rizkalla, "Bond and Splice Behavior of a CFRP Strengthening System for Steel Structures," APFIS 2007: Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures, Hong Kong, December 2007.
P. Kripakaran, A. Gupta, and J.W. Baugh, Jr., "Novel Optimization Approaches for Truss Models with Real-World Cost Functions," Computers and Structures (accepted for publication)
R.K. Saigal and A. Gupta, "Combination of Modal Responses: A Closed-Form Formulation for Rigid Response Coefficient," Nuclear Engineering and Design, (accepted for publication)
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.
M. Sayeed, G. Mahinthakumar, and N. Karonis, "Grid Enabled Solution ff Groundwater Inverse Problems on the Teragrid Network," Journal of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2007 (in press)
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.
B.Mirghani , G. Mahinthakumar, and S. Ranjithan, "Evolutionary Algorithm-based Grid Computational Framework for Solving Groundwater Characterization Problems," Proceedings of the ASCE/EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Tampa, FL, May 15-18, 2007, 7 pgs.
S. Sreepathi, G. Mahinthakumar, E. Zechman, R. Ranjithan, E.D. Brill, X. Ma, and G. Von Laszewski, "Cyberinfrastructure for Contamination Source Characterization in Water Distribution Systems," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ICCS2007 Part I, 4487, p 1058-1065, 2007.
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.
Edge, B.L., Y.H. Park, and M.F. Overton, "Experimental Study of Overwash," Coastal Sediments '07, New Orleans, May 2007.
Q.X. Xu and M.S. Rahman, "Finite Element Analyses of Layered Visco-elastic System under Vertical Circular Loading," International Journal of Analytical and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics 2007 (accepted for publication).
M.B. Ulker, M.S. Rahman, Z. Zhao, and A. Mirmiran, "Traffic Barriers under Vehicular Impact From Computer Simulation to Design Guidelines," Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2007 (accepted for publication).
J.K. Jeon and M.S. Rahman, "A Neural Netwok Model for the Prediction of Pile Setup," Transportation Research Record, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007 (accepted for publication)
E.M. Zechman, E. M., L. Liu, and S. Ranjithan, "Niched Co-Evolution Strategies to Address Non-uniqueness in Engineering Design," In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006, Late Breaking Paper Track, Seattle, WA, July 8-12, 2006, 8 pgs.
E.M. Zechman and S. Ranjithan, "Generating Alternatives using Evolutionary Algorithms for Water Resources and Environmental Management Problems," Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, 133(2), pp. 156-165, 2007.
E.M. Zechman and S. Ranjithan, "Evolutionary Computation-based Approach for Model Error Correction and Calibration," Advances in Water Resources, 30(5), pp. 1360-1370, 2007.
M.E. Tryby, M. Propato, and S. Ranjithan, "Monitoring Sensor Netwotk Design for Water Distribution Source Inversion Problems," Proceedings of the ASCE/EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Tampa Florida, May 15-18, 2007, 10 pgs.
W. Rasdorf, "Pavement Markings Research Plan," Technical Report, North Carolina Department of Transportation, Raleigh, NC, September 2006.
W. Rasdorf, J. Hummer, E. Harris, V. Immaneni, C. Yeom, "Designing a Nighttime Sign Inspection Procedure to Ensure Motorist Safety," Technical Report FHWA/NC/20006-08, NC Department of Transportation, Raleigh, NC, September 2006.
H.C. Frey, W. Rasdorf, S.-H. Pang, K. Kim, S. Abolhasani, and P. Lewis, "Methodology for Activity, Fuel Use, and Emissions Data Collection and Analysis for Nonroad Construction Equipment," Paper No. 2007-AWMA-447, Proceedings, 100th Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June 26-28, 2007.
H.C. Frey, W.J. Rasdorf, S.H. Pang, K. Kim, and P. Lewis, “Methods for Measurement and Analysis of In-Use Emissions of Nonroad Construction Equipment,” Proceedings, International Emission Inventory Conference, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Raleigh, NC, May 15-17, 2007.
J. Hummer, W. Rasdorf, and E. Harris, "Designing an Experimental Facility for Roadway Sign Retroreflectivity Measurements," Technical Report TA-2006-06, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, October 2006.
H. Cai and W. Rasdorf, "Modeling Road Centerlines and Predicting Lengths in 3-D Using LIDAR Point Cloud Data," Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Blackwell Publishing Company 133(2), pp. 156-165, 2007.
E.A. Harris, W.J. Rasdorf, J.E. Hummer, and C. Yeom, "Analysis of Traffic Sign Asset Management Scenarios," Transportation Research Record, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2007.
V.P. Immaneni, W. Rasdorf, J.E. Hummer, and C. Yeom, "Field Investigation of Sign Damage Rates and Inspector Accuracy," Journal of Public Works Management and Policy, American Public Works Association, 11(4):266-278, 2007.
H. Cai, W. Rasdorf, C. Tilley, "An Approach to Determine Extent and Depth of Highway Flooding," Journal of Infrastructure Systems, American Society of Civil Engineers, 13(2):157-167, June 2007.
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 21(2): 90-101, March/April 2007.
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