PhD & MS Abstracts

Geotechnical Engineering

• Calibration Of Load And Resistance Factor Design (Lrfd) Resistance Factor For Design Of Shallow Foundation On Cohesionless Soil By Ghulam Qadir, Chair: Dr. M. C. McVay
• Development Of Semi-Empirical Equations For Estimating Smith Soil Parameters Based On Statistical Analysis Of Pile Uf Database By Lijian Zhou, Chair: Dr. Michael C. McVay
• Deep Foundations Database By Roberto Fernandez, Chair: John Davidson
• Large Strain Primary And Secondary Consolidation Of Soft Clay Using The Finite Element Method by Zafar Ahmed, Chair: Michael C. McVay
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Slope Treatment Alternatives by Michael A. Coffey
• An Evaluation of Drilled Shafts Using Shaft98 by Alvin Gutierrez-Almodovar
• Design Of Retaining Wall Structures Using Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) by Beatriz I. Camacho-Padrón
• A Comparison of the Pile Static Capacity Prediction from SPT97, PDA, CAPWAP and Load Test for Soils in Puerto Rico by Marcus R. Garcia
• Calibration Of Load And Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Resistance Factors For Geotechnical Designs In The State Of Florida by William Andrew Singletary
• Using Reinforced Earth Walls for Blast Mitigation by Ronald L. Pieri
• Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for Driven Piles Based On Dynamic Methods with Assessment of Skin and Tip Resistance from PDA Signals by Ariel Perez Perez
• Pile Friction Freeze: A Field and Laboratory Study by Paul Joseph Bullock
• Evaluation of FLPIER Davisson Capacity for Axially Loaded Single and of Group-Piles by Sudip Shrestha
• Evaluation of the SPT Energy Transfer Performance for 58 Selected Florida-Based SPT Hammer Systems by John Paul Maultsby
• Field Instruments' Application to the Analysis of Soil Moisture Structure from Slash Pine Uplands in North-Central Florida by Matthew Fischer
• Slope Stability Investigation at Black Mallet, Castries, St. Culia WI by Owen B. Sadoo
• A Model to Evaluate Evaporative Fluxes from Bare Soil by Lifang Wang
• Earthwork Production for the Kissimmee River Restoration Project by Randall L. Rabb
• Implementation of Ground Source Heat Pumps in DON Facilities--A Feasibility Study by John W. Carson III
• Simulation of Seawater Intrusion and Optimation
  of Groundwater Use in the Goksu Delta at Silifke, Turkey by Fatih Gordu