YaBeSH Digital Library: Recent submissions
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Discrete-Element Method Study of the Effect of Ballast Layer Depth on the Performance of Railway Ballast Bed
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In the construction and maintenance of railway track systems, studying the influence of ballast depth on the performance of railway track structures is important to ensure the safety and sustainability of the built ... -
A Process-Improvement Method for Implementing Earned Value–Based Project Management in Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Project monitoring has become crucial to the success of organizations in an increasingly competitive industrial environment. As such, earned value management (EVM) is an essential part of project cost control. Over the ... -
Discrete-Element Investigation on the Progressive Failure of Cut-and-Cover Tunnel Lining with Various Section Features
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Similar to the deep-buried tunnel, the lining of the cut-and-cover tunnel (CCT) exhibits varying degrees of cracking failure during ultrahigh backfill. To explore the whole progressive failure process of a high-filled ... -
Discovering Workers’ Actions Leading to Severe Construction Accidents Using Accident Report Data and Sequence Mining Techniques
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Historical construction accident reports have been widely used to gain insights into the primary causes of past incidents in construction. Previous studies have successfully identified accident causes and affected body ... -
Discerning the Disparity between Stipulated Contractual Payment Procedures and Payment Practices among Contractors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Smooth cash flow is critical to foster a robust, professional, and competitive construction sector, ensuring efficient project delivery. However, persistent payment issues have been a recurrent concern, adversely affecting ... -
Direct Grid Connection of a Prototype with Real-Time Control for Energy Recovery and Pressure Control in a Water Distribution Network through Hydraulic Regulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Although pressure regulation valves (PRVs) are commonly used for reducing leakage in water distribution networks (WDNs), in recent years, many studies have highlighted the opportunity of using pumps as turbines (PATs) so ... -
Dilemma Zone Identification and Mitigation Approach at Signalized Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions Using UAV Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Traffic safety at signalized intersections is significantly affected by the driver’s behavior, psychology, and the design of traffic signals, especially in mixed traffic conditions. At signalized intersections, the traffic ... -
Digitalized Document Management System for Construction Claims and Disputes to Enhance the Smoothness of Advanced Construction Projects Using the Building Information Modeling Integrated Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The escalating complexity of conventional construction’s claim document management systems (CDMSs), characterized by intricate and improper documentation, demonstration, knowledge, claim generation process, correspondence, ... -
Diffraction of Magnetoelastic Plane Waves through a Rigid Strip in an Orthotropic Medium: An Analytical Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The present study provides the analytical solution for magnetoelastic plane-wave diffraction by a rigid strip in an infinite orthotropic medium. The mathematical formulation of the considered model involves a mixed boundary ... -
Different Travel Behavior between Self-Employed and Salaried Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study highlights the different travel behavior between self-employed (SE) and salaried (S) workers based on 8,174 individuals in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Planning Area, NM, that employed Tobit and multinomial logit ... -
Diachronic Analysis of Urban Regeneration Policies in Shanghai: Instruments, Modes, and Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With growing concern toward sustainable urban regeneration (UR) and the inability of existing UR policy instrument frequency studies to distinguish the blurring content in policies, a systematic framework quantitatively ... -
Device for Load-Redistribution between Existing Piles and Underpinning Micropiles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A micropile preloading method using bolt-fastening was studied to improve the constructability and economic feasibility of underpinning micropiles for the vertical expansion of a building with existing pile foundation. Due ... -
A Practical Numerical Model of Embedded Mooring Chains in Clayey Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Interactions between mooring chains and the seabed are crucial in the estimation of the capacities of mooring anchors for floating facilities in deep water. This paper presents a computationally efficient numerical approach ... -
Development of Water-Cured Alkali-Activated Concrete with a High Volume of Silica-Rich Waste Limestone Powder and GGBS and Fly Ash Materials: Strength, Durability, and Life Cycle Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Significant amounts of finely ground waste powder are produced during the heating process of silica-rich limestone aggregates in asphalt concrete plants. This resulting by-product poses challenges and opportunities in the ... -
Development of the Diversion Runoff Calculator to Estimate Agricultural Water Consumption and Irrigation Diversions at the Field- to Basin-Scale in Northeastern Utah
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the western United States experiencing aridification and prolonged drought, there is a need for improved water management to understand irrigation water requirements and to forecast how drought mitigation efforts may ... -
Development of Practical Approaches to Quantify Pavement Thermophysical Properties: An Energy-Conserving Engineering Demonstration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Current issues such as global warming and energy conservation are being discussed more than ever worldwide. Today’s pavement sustainability evaluation methods recognize the complicated nature of pavement thermophysical ... -
Development of Newer Composite Cement with Processed Ladle Furnace Slag: Properties and Comparative Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Developing novel composite cement with processed ladle furnace slag (LFS) is one of the emerging research areas promoting circular economy in construction. In the present study, LFS was mechanically processed through milling ... -
Development of Level of Service Criteria for Pedestrianized Urban Street: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pedestrianization is a vital sustainable transportation strategy aimed at mitigating the negative impacts of increased motorized traffic in urban centers. Assessing the level of service of pedestrianized streets is essential ... -
Development of Fiber Cement Boards Using Recycled Jute Fibers for Building Applications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aims to develop, enhance, and characterize the qualities of recycled jute fiber and kraft pulp as reinforcement for use in cement composite boards for building applications in developing countries. In many African ... -
Development of a Rear-End Conflict Prediction Framework for Unsignalized Intersections along Intercity Highways Using Machine Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Rear-end collisions at high-speed unsignalized intersections are one of the primary causes of crash fatalities. Time to collision (TTC) has become a popular metric for assessing traffic conflicts and proactively evaluating ...