Civil Engineering ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
PHYSICAL AND STOCHIOMETRIC CONTROLS ON NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION IN CONTRASTING SITES, Jancoba K. Dorley
Insight into the Application of Engineered Phenol Polymer Nanocomposites for Geothermal Well Applications to Modify Fracture Permeability, Fatemeh Hamidi
Multi-Physics-based Modeling of Cracks in Asphalt Concrete, Md Amanul Hasan
Understanding Longitudinal Top-down Cracking to Enhance Asphalt Mix Design, Md Mehedi Hasan
Evaluating the impacts of climate change on the City of Santa Fe’s municipal water supply using system dynamics modeling, Atlin Johnson
ANALYSIS OF WATER USAGE AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AS TRANSITION FUEL FROM COAL TO NATURAL GAS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, Tahereh Kookhaei
LONGITUDINAL SPATIAL TRENDS IN U.S. PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST FATALITIES, Ossiris Rodriguez and Nicholas N. Ferenchak
Microcapsule Transport and Blockage in Rough-Walled Fractures, Brittney Diana Seaburn
A STABLE ISOTOPE STUDY TO INVESTIGATE WATER MOVEMENT IN THE LOS LAGOS REGION OF SOUTHERN CHILE, Kritan Subedi
Evaluation of Error Sources in Dynamic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Tests, Odey Yousef
3D PRINTING OF LOCAL NEW MEXICAN SOIL MATERIAL: IMPROVING DURABILITY PROPERTIES BY ASSESSING TRADITIONAL METHODS TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION, Daiquiri Devon Zozaya
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION OF WASTEWATER SLUDGES FOR ENERGY RESOURCE RECOVERY, Carl L. Abadam
INVESTIGATION OF ISSUES CONCERNING WELLBORE LEAKAGE, Ishtiaque Anwar
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES WITH ULTRA-HIGH TENSILE DUCTILITY, Amir Bakhshi
3D PRINTING OF EARTHEN MATERIALS: TOWARD THE CARBON-ZERO CONSTRUCTION, Shiva Bhusal
Role of Endophytic Fungi on Arsenic Uptake in Solution: Insights For Bioremediation, Taylor Lillian Busch
Gold Thin Film Electrodes for High Sensitivity & Selectivity Electrochemical Detection of Arsenite in Water, Tybur Q. Casuse Driovínto
Early-Age Strength and Failure Characteristics of 3D Printable Polymer Concrete: Numerical Modelling and Experimental Testing, Mohammad Amin Dehghani Najvani
Repair of a Wellbore Microannulus, Serafin Garcia Fernandez
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLUID FLOW BEHAVIOR THROUGH FRACTURED WELLBORE CEMENT, Mahya Hatambeigi
POST-WILDFIRE EXPORT REGIMES OF SOLUTES ALONG THE GALLINAS-PECOS RIVER-SANTA ROSA FLUVIAL NETWORK, Asmita Kaphle
DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAVIGATOR: A LAGRANGIAN SMART SENSING SYSTEM TO CHARACTERIZE AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS., Aashish Sanjay Khandelwal
Modeling of Asphalt Concrete for Cross-Anisotropic Visco-Elasticity and Heterogeneity, Zafrul Hakim Khan
IDENTIFYING THE REQUIRED ECOLOGICAL FLOW FOR SEDIMENT MOVEMENT IN THE RÍO CHAMA: FIELD DATA INFORMED VISUAL SPATIAL MODEL, Cristian Kremer
THE IMPACT OF ALBUQUERQUE’S BUS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, Martina Mercure
Combining Semi-Continuous and Discrete Water Quality Data to Characterize Solute Transport, Biogeochemical Processes, and Wildfire Disturbances in Fluvial Systems, Justin Rae Nichols
HYDRAULIC HABITAT SUITABILITY FOR THE RIO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW AT THE LOS CHAVEZ IRRIGATION OUTFALL, NEW MEXICO, Haley A. Ormsbee
Additive Manufacturing of Lightweight Concrete Mixtures, Kourosh Rashidi
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF E-TICKETING TECHNOLOGIES ON ASPHALT PAVING PROJECTS IN NEW MEXICO, Gena C. Robertson
Strength as a Function of Liquid Water Content in Different Snow Types - Results from field experiments using a blade hardness gauge, Mikael Schlumpf
Assessment of Forest Stand Characteristics and Environmental Conditions on Soil Burn Severity and Post-Wildfire Flooding in the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, Raquel L. Valdez
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Permeability and Porosity of Loose Granular Salt, Evan J. Babcock
An Investigation of Emerging Technologies to Advance the Understanding of Dynamics Between the Floodplain and Main Channel due to Riparian Vegetation, Smriti Chaulagain
THE IMPACT OF MURALS ON TRAFFIC SAFETY: A BEHAVIOR AND CRASH ANALYSIS, Maria Cecelia Cruz
Techno-Economic Analysis of Atmospheric Water Harvesting Across Climates, Natalie Gayoso
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of 3D-Printed Viscoelastic Dampers, Mohammed Jaradat
THERMODYNAMIC AND KINETIC INVESTIGATION OF U(VI) AND AS(V) REACTIONS: INSIGHTS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION, MARIA ISABEL MEZA
Interfacial Interactions of Uranium and HDPE in agricultural soil and their bioacummulation in Mentha arvensis, Casey Miller, Andrew Neidhart, Kendra Hess, Abdul-Mehdi S. Ali, Angelica Benavidez, Michael Spilde, Laura Green, José M. Cerrato, Jorge Gonzalez Estrella, and Eliane El Hayek
Reactions In the Microannulus of a Wellbore System with Produced Water from The Permian Basin, Ernesto J. Perea
Co-occurrence of microplastics, uranium and arsenic in heavy metal-contaminated freshwaters and their potential interaction, Jasmine Anne Quiambao
Rapid Response Protocol (RRP) for Monitoring Water Quality Parameters for Wildfire Disturbance, Paige G. Tunby
MONITORING OF STRUCTURAL QUALITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION USING 3D POINT CLOUD DATA, Xinxing Yuan
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VEHICULAR EMISSIONS AND TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AT ISOLATED SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS, Abiral Dulal
AN INVESTIGATION OF PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL BY PURPLE BACTERIA IN DAIRY WASTEWATER LAGOONS, Lauren M. Gomez, Andrew J. Schuler, Jose M. Cerrto, and David T. Hanson
Strength, fracture evolution, and permeability changes from confined Brazilian tests on sandstone, Tyler Louis Hagengruber
Measurement of Resilience Performance for Infrastructure Construction Project Delivery, Fei Han
Evaluation of Fine and Coarse Graded Asphalt Mixes, Md Mehedi Hasan
3D PRINTED CONCRETE & POLYMER CONCRETE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS, Daniel Heras Murcia
Monitoring Damage Occurrence, Post-Peak Crack Propagation and Air Permeability in Concrete Using the Brazilian Indirect Tension Test, Angel M. Padilla
Effect of Degradation Environment and Relative Humidity on Fracture of Cement, Patience L. Raby
Soil Moisture Dependent Runoff in a Dryland Region: An Investigation of the Role of Antecedent Conditions, Monitoring, and Modeling Strategies, Gerhard Schoener
Dynamic HVAC Energy Management Using Commercial Building Occupancy Metrics & Neural Networks, Krishna Chaitanya Jagadeesh Simma
PSEUDO-DUCTILE 3D PRINTED FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES, Shreya Vemuganti
A Practical Methodology to Detect, Quantify and Characterize Experimental Uncertainties in the Dynamic Testing of Structures, James L. Woodall
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
VISUALIZATION OF REAL-TIME DISPLACEMENT TIME HISTORY SUPERIMPOSED WITH DYNAMIC EXPERIMENTS USING WIRELESS SMART SENSORS AND AUGMENTED REALITY, Marlon Frank Agüero Injante
Biogeochemical Processes Affecting Arsenic (As) Release and Bioavailability Near Abandoned Mine Wastes, Cherie L. DeVore
EVALUATING PUBLIC TRANSIT ACCESSIBILITY IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: A FIXED-ROUTE BUS SERVICE ANALYSIS, Risa E. Gutierrez
Effect of Membrane Aging and Operating Conditions on the Rejection of Trace Organics for Potable Reuse, Jose Pedro Hernandez
Thermal Mapping and Evaporation Estimation of Cochiti Lake Using Landsat 8 Imagery, Claudia Jimenez Arellano
Resilience Engineering: Theory and Practice, Michaela Jones
Introducing the Self-Cleaning FiLtrAtion for Water quaLity SenSors (SC-FLAWLeSS) system, Aashish Sanjay Khandelwal
COMBINING HIGH-FREQUENCY SENSOR DATA AND NUTRIENT ADDITION EXPERIMENTS TO IDENTIFY UPTAKE DYNAMICS IN STREAMS, Justin Rae Nichols
POST-WILDFIRE GEOMORPHIC STREAM RESPONSE IN SIX NEW MEXICAN WATERSHEDS, Aljaz Praznik
Spatial Analysis of Bias Corrected Rainfall Data Sets within Albuquerque, New Mexico Metropolitan Area, Cassy Scarlott- McClintock
Chemical interfacial reactions affecting the speciation and solubility of uranium in organic-rich environments, Carmen A. Velasco
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
NITRATE DYNAMICS IN AN ARID IRRGATION NETWORK: CAN NUTRIENT LOOPS BE CLOSED WITH MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES?, Kelsey B. Bicknell
VALIDATION OF THE STATE BASED PERIDYNAMIC LATTICE MODEL, Anima Bista
The Development of a Novel Experiment on Confined, Flattened Brazilian Disks to Correlate Damage and Permeability in Brittle Geo-Materials, Samuel H. Boyce
Low Loading Gold Vapor Deposited Electrode for High Sensitivity As (III) Detection, Tybur Casuse
RETROFIT OF CORRODED CORRUGATED METAL CULVERTS USING GFRP SLIP-LINER, RahulReddy ChennaReddy
The Collison Floating Evaporation Pan: Design, Validation, and Comparison, Jacob William Collison
Evaluating Sustainable & Equitable Financing For Pedestrian Infrastructure Maintenance And How The Quality Of Pedestrian Infrastructure Affects The Choice To Walk, Alexis Corning Padilla
Drivable Space Datasets Created by Airborne LiDAR and Aerial Imagery, Ryan E. Dow
Source-Separated Urine Nitrification and Ion Accumulation in Sub-Irrigated Planters Using Domestic Wastewater, David A. Forrest
ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT RISKS IN FAST-TRACK CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, Claudia Garrido Martins
Implementations of Resilience Engineering for Natural System Disturbances: A Panarchical Perspective, Mark Charles Stone Victoria Jaramillo
An investigation of runoff sources to headwater streams and implications for hydropower projects using stable isotope analyses, Paulina Lima
HUMAN-INFRASTRUCTURE INTERFACES (HII) ENABLED USING AUGMENTED REALITY (AR), Dilendra Maharjan
DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIONABLE METRICS FOR WATER LOSS REDUCTION IN WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, James R. Markham
Is Transportation Planning Effective? A Critical Review of Long-range Regional Transportation Planning in the United States, Razieh Nadafianshahamabadi
Quantification of Sediment Yields from Semi-Arid Watersheds using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Photogrammetry Techniques, Jared L. Romero
Biointerfacial Studies of Nitrifying Biofilms on Physically and Chemically Modified Surfaces, Philip Marley Roveto
EFFECTS OF COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION ON UNBONDED CONCRETE OVERLAY DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE, Gauhar Sabih
Application of Cation Exchange and Nanofiltration to treat Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater, Ayush R. Shahi
Application of Cation Exchange and Nanofiltration to treat Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater, Ayush R. Shahi
Organic/Inorganic Interfacial Interactions Affecting Metal Reactivity: Water Treatment and Sensor Applications, Mohamed Nabil Shaikh
SYNTHESIS & CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER-MODIFIED CALCIUM SILICATE HYDRATE FOR WELLBORE APPLICATIONS, Jeremy J. Starr
Multi-year water quality data reveal highly variable timing and magnitude of metabolism and physicochemical drivers in an aridland river network, Betsy Marie Summers
Recovery of gypsum & magnesium hydroxide from brackish water by chemical precipitation, Sugam Tandukar
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Physical and Chemical Interactions Affecting U and V Transport from Mine Wastes, Sumant Avasarala
An investigation into remote sensing techniques for describing hydraulic roughness, Smriti Chaulagain
Understanding Asphalt Concrete Aging Using Nanoindentation, Hasan M. Faisal
CHARACTERIZING PATTERNS IN E. COLI LEVELS IN RIO GRANDE RIVER WATER AND RIVERBED SEDIMENTS NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, NM, James Fluke
Characterization of wellbore microannuli, Serafin Garcia Fernandez
An Engineered Fit-For-Purpose Polymer Nanocomposite Seal Repair Material for Wellbores, Moneeb Genedy
Growth of an Algae Polyculture and Dunaliella Tertiolecta in Oilfield Produced Water at a Range of Salinities and Nutrient Concentrations for Biofuels Production., Thomas C. Hopkins
