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Modelo de evaluación de infraestructura y operación de aeropuertos comerciales regulados por la Administración Federal de Aviación : estudio de caso del Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín
(2014-07)
A number of methodologies have been developed to assess transportation infrastructure. However, a standard methodology for evaluating airports operational infrastructure does not exist yet. Airports infrastructure factors ...
Study of light weight, high strength, multifunctional composite material: Aluminum reinforced with AIB2 particles
(2017)
Aluminum, its alloys and composites are widely used in many modern life applications, such as microelectromechanical systems. In this research, an aluminum matrix composite reinforced with AlB2 particles was studied in ...
Estimation of volume delay functions for arterials and freeways in the western region of Puerto Rico
(2011-07)
Volume Delay Functions (VDF) are formulas developed to describe the functional relationship between travel time and traffic flow in a travel demand model considering the available capacity of the facility. VDF’s are the ...
Application of the precursor transformation method to investigate cable tension influence in La Plata Bridge in Puerto Rico
(2015)
Bridge engineers are becoming more interested in structural health monitoring of cable stayed bridges in order to understand and mitigate problems such as from vibrations, fatigue, and corrosion. La Plata Bridge in Naranjito, ...
Rehabilitation of RC residential houses on gravity columns over slope terrain
(2015)
It is well known that Puerto Rico is exposed to the risk of experiencing strong earthquakes, since it is located in an earthquake prone region. It is a fact that in Puerto Rico there are many houses that are built over ...
Metodología para la evaluación de la consistencia de diseño de carreteras rurales de dos carriles
(2015)
The road geometric design consistency is correlated with its level of safety. This evaluation is performed in three stages: measure or estimation of the operational speed, calculation of the dependent variable in the ...
Comportamiento estructural de edificios industriales típicos propiedad de PRIDCO sujeto a cargas de viento y terremoto
(2015)
Typical industrial buildings owned by PRIDCO are used by various industries and are located all over the island of Puerto Rico. Many of them were abandoned and are in the process of deterioration. The government of Puerto ...
Diseño y desarrollo de un sistema para el manejo de información relacionada a proyectos de Alianzas Público Privadas en Puerto Rico
(2013)
The information system of technical literature is a digital database created to store information about the public-private partnerships at national and international levels. The application wants to satisfy the needs of ...
A methodology to incorporate highway safety into transportation planning using generalized linear mixed models
(2014)
Highway Safety has been identified as a significant problem worldwide. Crashes have been found as the second cause of death in the world according to the World Health Organization (2010). In fact, road crashes cost billions ...
Assessment of potential odor problems on McCook Reservoir, Chicago, IL
(2005-12)
The City of Chicago and neighboring communities are served by combined sewer systems, which carry both stormwater and raw sewage. The combined sewer overflows (CSOs) could exceed the capacity of the wastewater treatment ...