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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Design guide"”.
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A design guide for naval ship propulsion plants.
Thesis. 1978. Ocean E.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering.
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Translational Design Guide for Working from Home with Children
… for children differently than men, and how to design a solution for women working from home who are caring for children. Six informational interviews were conducted to determine the issues present for women working from home. Of those interviews, questions asked included the challenges and …
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A Study of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide for South Carolina
<p>The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) provides the highway pavement design community with a new program for the design of flexible and rigid pavement structures using state-of-the-art mechanistic-empirical analyses and performance predictions. This report summarizes a research …
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The Social Re-Signification of Housing: A Design Guide for Santiago de Chile
… infrastructure, and architectural and urban design have created a model of economic and cultural development highly unsustainable in the long term that ultimately fosters social inequalities. This problem is rooted in the conceptual limitations of the existing policy framework, which does not …
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Prediction of permanent deformations in asphalt concrete using the mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide
… of pavements. The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (M-E PDG) model used for calculation of permanent deformation in asphalt layers was to be evaluated. It was accomplished by accelerated loading testing of two flexible pavements with the Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS), specimen …
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Developing pavement preservation and mitigation strategies using Pavement ME design guide for Rhode Island DOT
The objective of the study is to develop pavement preservation strategies using Pavement ME. The International Roughness Index (IRI), Longitudinal Cracking, and Permanent Deformation (Rutting) in both the asphalt layer and the total structure were predicted using Pavement ME to determine the …
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Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Method Implemented to Estimate Damage in Flexible and Rigid Pavements
… of the Empirical-Mechanistic Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) method for flexible and rigid pavements requires numerous input parameters. Most of these parameters can be easily determined while some require best estimates that are usually extracted from available literature. This thesis …
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Criticality alarm system design guide with accompanying alarm system development for the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory in Richland, Washington
A detailed instructional manual was created to guide criticality safety engineers through the process of designing a criticality alarm system (CAS) for Department of Energy (DOE) hazard class 1 and 2 facilities. Regulatory and technical requirements were both addressed. A list of design tasks and …
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Sensitivity analysis and calibration of the alligator cracking model in the mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide using regional data
… used in the mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (M-EPDG) were calibrated using the data from all across the United States. The alligator cracking model uses traffic, material and structural data along with local and global calibration factors to calculate the number of axles to …
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Evaluation of the AASHTO Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide: an experimental and analytical investigation of the performance of flexible roads
… attempt to change the approach to engineering design of road structures. It reflects a shift from total reliance on empirical methods to a combination of mechanistic and empirical methods. Three instrumented road sections were used to capture the impact of local conditions. The measurements …
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Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics as a Simulation-based Design Guide in a Microfluidic 3D Living Cell Array (3D LCA) Device
… provides a reinforcement to efficiency in the design of aircrafts or for understanding the flow through pipes. A similar approach can be taken towards microfluidics, where traditionally devices have been designed based on experience or physiological replication, and a CFD simulation is shown …
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Verification of asphalt concrete performance prediction using level 2 and level 3 inputs of mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide for flexible pavements of the state of New Jersey
… study of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (M-EPDG) using level 2 and level 3 inputs. In addition, the challenges of verification of the predicted performance with the help of field-measured data of existing flexible pavements are also presented. In this study, twenty-five …
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Early Age Behavior of Bonded Concrete Overlays Due to Shrinkage and Thermal Changes
A design guide was developed to predict cracking tendency in bonded concrete overlay at early age. The design guide, implemented as an EXCEL spreadsheet, is a practical tool for pavement engineers. The design guide calculates surface stresses and interfacial debonding stress due to shrinkage and …
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A Study of Computer Modeling Techniques to Predict the Response of Floor Systems Due to Walking
… due to walking excitation as given in AISC Design Guide 11, Floor Vibrations Due to Human Activity (Murray, et al., 1997) was explored. This research included ideal floors that did not have measured values as well as several case study floors that do have measured values for the fundamental …
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An Exploration into How Design Can Better Align the Attributes of Luxury and Sustainability for ‘High-End’ Hotel Guest Rooms
… Moreover, there is a lack of information for designers to follow in being guided in the design of sustainable environments, with interior designers tending to restrict themselves to less involved aspects of the design process, focusing on aesthetics while ignoring sustainability issues, such …
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Minimum Life -Cycle Cost Structural Design Against Natural Hazards
The life-cycle cost based design method presented here is useful tool for decision on design load intensity. The results have important implications in the development of future codes and design guide lines.
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Study To Improve The Predicted Response Of Floor Systems Due To Walking
… predicting the system frequency using the AISC Design Guide for all types of framing analyzed. The predicted beam frequency using AISC methods provided sound correlations with the measured bay frequencies. On the other hand, with the exception of floor systems with joist girders and joists, the …
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Verification of Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Deterioration Models Based on Field Evaluation of In-Service Pavements
… composite) high performance in-service pavements designated as high-priority routes to verify the applicability of the Mechanistic Empirical (M-E) models to high performance pavements in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The structural evaluation included: determination of layer thicknesses (from …
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Prediction of Floor Vibration Response Using the Finite Element Method
… due to walking excitation as given in AISC Design Guide 11, Floor Vibrations Due to Human Activity (Murray, et al., 1997). For this research several test floors were constructed and tested, and this data was supplemented with test data from actual floors. A verification of the modeling …
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Enterprise performance measurement system : metric design framework and tools
… with good checklists and tools to evaluate and design their enterprise performance measurement systems (EPMS) and metrics. However, these methodologies and frameworks do not delve deep enough into the operational aspects of EPMS and metrics. This work addresses this research gap by proposing a …
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