Current practice for the design and assessment of coastal infrastructure requires the use of stochastic methods for the evaluation of the risk associated with coastal hazards such as storm surge and flooding induced by ...

This MS thesis involves characterizing and evaluating the expansion potential of several clayey soils from the area of Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The samples were collected from two test pits excavated as part of ...

Este documento contiene el trabajo realizado en la Cuenca del Río Grande de Añasco donde se determinó el comportamiento y transporte de coliformes fecales utilizando la herramienta computacional conocida como ArcMap 9.1 y ...

In order to aid in the establishment of “reference” criteria the nutrient status and dynamics of soils, water and stream sediments of a secondary forested watershed is being compared with the dynamics of an “historically” ...

Pervious concrete pavement constitutes an efficient Best Management Practice (BMP) stormwater management solution, since it serves to manage surface runoff quantitative and qualitative characteristics at its earliest ...

Pervious concrete pavements mimic the way the natural land surfaces filter and clean the water that falls on them, allowing a gradual discharge of water into the stormwater outlet, decreasing the necessity of detention/retention ...

This dissertation is comprised of four manuscripts developed from different topics of geotechnical and earthquake engineering. Puerto Rico is selected as the study area because is an island located in a high tectonic active ...

Global warming brings as consequence an alteration in precipitation and increase in the sea water level. These consequences generate flood loads in structures near to the coast. The forces generated by these floods are: ...

In Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States in the Caribbean, the past decades have been plagued with frequent floods, some of which (e.g. Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017) have been catastrophic. Puerto Rico’s ...

Puerto Rico is located in an earthquake-prone region. Observations from recent studies of seismic activity in Puerto Rico have proven the expectation of a major earthquake that may occur at any given time. School buildings ...