In the period between 1993-1998 a vision was presented of an Automated Highway System developed under a contract naming Virginia Tech one of the three ITS Research Centers of Excellence in the United States by the Federal ...

Automated data acquisition has revolutionized the reliability of product design in recent years. A noteworthy example is the improvement in the design of aircrafts through field data. This research proposes a similar ...

BTX biodegradation rates, biochemical expression patterns and microbial ecology were studied under anoxic (denitrifying), anoxic/microaerobic/aerobic, and anoxic/microaerobic conditions in activated sludge sequencing batch ...

Java applets are developed to assist in the learning of basic structural analysis concepts. In order for these programs to be easily available over the Internet, they are written in the object-oriented Java programming ...

In this study, two hydrologic models were applied to the mountainous Back Creek catchment, located in the headwaters of the Roanoke River in Southwest Virginia. The two models employed were HEC-1, an event based lumped ...

A three-dimensional, nonlinear dynamic analysis is conducted on a fully submerged, rigid, solid cylinder to be used as a breakwater. The breakwater could potentially be used as a single cylinder to protect small ...

This study investigates four aspects associated with steel joist supported wood floor systems: 1) acceptability, 2) prediction of deflection, 3) prediction of frequency, and 4) effects of diagonal bracing. Six full scale ...

Two critical components of the United States civil infrastructure, bridges and roads, have deteriorated in the past two decades at an accelerated rate and are in need of maintenance and rehabilitation. Geosynthetics may ...

Studies were conducted to determine the role of bioflocculation in the activated sludge unit processes. Laboratory and full-scale studies revealed that bioflocculation is important in determining settling, dewatering, ...

For oblique and normal water waves at various frequencies, the use of moored cylinders as breakwaters is considered numerically using linear three-dimensional analysis. The breakwater can be used by itself for protection ...