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Civil and Environmental Engineering Theses

Theses from 2025 2025

THE IMPACTS OF DECENTRALIZATION CONFIGURATION ON ENERGY-RELATED SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, Kriti Acharya

PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COMPONENTS OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE SPECTRUM USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE, Prashant Adhikari

Microgrid Approach with Data-Driven Monitoring to Enhance the Resilience of Water Distribution Systems, Binod Ale Magar

PHYSIOCHEMICAL DEGRADATION OF PLASTIC FIBERS FROM SYNTHETIC FABRICS AND EFFECT OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS ON NANOPLASTICS’ BEHAVIOR, Amin Asadollahi

Full-Scale Structural and Nonstructural System Damage Detection Using Wavelet-Based Fast Independent Component Analysis, Sabal Bhandari

SELECTIVE RECOVERY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM ACID MINE DRAINAGE USING INDIGENOUS BACTERIA IN BIOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, PARTHA PROTIM BHOWMIK

VIBRATION-BASED BRIDGE MODAL IDENTIFICATION: FROM FIXED SENSING TO MOBILE SENSING, Nishan Budhathoki

ASSESSING URBAN FLOOD DYNAMICS USING DATA- DRIVEN AND PHYSICALLY BASED MODELLING FRAMEWORKS, Dewasis Dahal

COMPREHENSIVE DROUGHT ANALYSIS: MACHINE LEARNING-BASED METEROLOGICAL DROUGHT FORECASTING AND PCA-DRIVEN AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT MONITORING., Bishal Poudel

STUDY OF STRENGTH, DURABILITY AND MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF FLY ASH AND GGBS BASED GEOPOLYMER STABILIZED HIGH PLASTIC CLAY, Sudarshan Shrestha

FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT THROUGH GIS INTEGRATED ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS, Sujan Shrestha

WATER QUALITY EXAMINATION OF ALTERNATIVE POND-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR REARING LARGEMOUTH BASS (Micropterus nigricans), Asyeh Sohrabifar

STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE BEHAVIOR OF HIGHLY PLASTIC CLAY STABILIZED WITH SODIUM ALGINATE, Kevin Tamang

Theses from 2024 2024

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED POST DISASTER RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR ENHANCED INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE, Sandeep Acharya

EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF LAND USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON REGIONAL HYDROLOGY BY UTILIZING LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES., Mandip Banjara

STUDY OF RESILIENT MODULUS AND GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER STABILIZED HIGH PLASTICITY CLAY, Sushanta Bhattarai

Effect of Damping, Duration, and Signal-to-Noise Ratio on the Accuracy of Data-Driven Stochastic Subspace Identification, Upama Bhusal

Effect of Micronized Rubber Powder on High Plastic Clay Stabilized with Cement Kiln Dust, Sanjan Bussu

A Comprehensive Study on Design, Construction, Cost Analysis, and Water Quality Assessment in Alternative Pond Production Systems, Omar Faruk

TRANSFORMING WASTES AND INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCTS INTO SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR PAVEMENT SUBGRADE LAYERS, Joshua Ayobami Fayemi

IMPACT OF DATA RELIABILITY ON RESILIENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING IN A WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, Amrit Babu Ghimire

EFFICACY OF SPARSE REGRESSION FOR LINEAR STRUCTURAL SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION, Sadiksha Katwal

EVALUATING DROUGHT USING MACHINE LEARNING AND HYDROLOGICAL MODEL BY INCORPORATING SATELLITE-BASED PRECIPITATION DATA IN THE UNGAUGED BASIN, Anjan Parajuli

SELENATE-MEDIATED IMPACTS ON MERCURY METHYLATION BY PSEUDODESULFOVIBRIO MERCURII WITH DISSOLVED AND NANOPARTICULATE MERCURIC NITRATE, Md Sayeduzzaman Sarker

Theses from 2023 2023

EVALUATING SATELLITE AND RADAR BASED PRECIPITATION DATA FOR RAINFALL-RUNOFF SIMULATION: APPLICATION OF LID AND IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL SUBCATCHMENTS., Abhiru Aryal

EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF PROCESS-BASED AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR RAINFALL-RUNOFF SIMULATION WITH APPLICATION OF SATELLITE AND RADAR PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS, Amrit Bhusal

MULTI-COMPONENT DECONVOLUTION INTERFEROMETRY FOR DETECTING AND LOCALIZING DAMAGE: A NUMERICAL STUDY, Sujeet Gurung

STABILIZATION OF BENTONITE CLAY USING RECYCLED GLASS POWDER AND POLYPROPYLENE FIBER, Bibek Karki

Data-driven-modeling-based sensor placement for the detection and identification of failures in cyber physical water distribution networks., Utsav Parajuli

MERCURY ADSORPTION ON BIOSORBENTS AND AN ANALYTICAL METHOD TO DETERMINE IONIC MERCURY USING SP-ICPMS, Nur Shadia

Eigenvector Expansion Using Kriging Interpolation: An Application To A Plane Truss, Kevin Ratna Tuladhar

Theses from 2022 2022

Multi-dimensional resilience of water distribution system for water quality sensor placement, Albira Acharya

ANALYSIS OF ARIAS INTENSITY OF EARTHQUAKE DATA USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE, Nation Adhikari

CO-TRANSPORT AND INTERACTION OF MICROPLASTICS AND HEAVY METAL IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT, ANIKA AZME

DURABILITY OF CLAYEY SOIL STABILIZED WITH CALCIUM SULFOALUMINATE CEMENT AND POLYPROPYLENE FIBER UNDER EXTREME ENVIRONMENT, Saroj Dhakal

MONITORING HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS (HABS) AND HAB MITIGATION BY MAGNETIC PHOTOCATALYSTS, Nafeesa Khan

EFFECT OF SIMULTANEOUS APPLICATION OF THE TWO HORIZONTAL ORTHOGONAL GROUND MOTION COMPONENTS ON THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF BUILDINGS (CASE OF FOUR-STORY STEEL FRAME), JOEL MONDO KISEKINI

RELEASE OF MICRO- AND NANOSCALE PLASTICS FROM SYNTHETIC TEXTILES DURING LAUNDRY AND QUANTIFICATION OF NANOSCALE PLASTICS BY SINGLE PARTICLE INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY, Md Shahriar Mahbub

ADSORPTION OF SINGLE AND TERNARY METAL SOLUTIONS ON THE BIOCHAR-NANOMATERIAL COMPOSITE: A COMBINED BATCH ADSORPTION STUDY AND ADSORPTION PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES, Khalid Mustafa

STABILIZATION OF HIGHLY EXPANSIVE BENTONITE SOIL USING POLYPROPYLENE FIBER AND GROUND GRANULATED BLAST FURNACE SLAG, Amit Neupane

OPTIMAL SENSOR PLACEMENT FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, Lokesh Pal

REMEDIATION OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES AND COMINGLED CHLORINATED SOLVENTS USING REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE/NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON, Sushmita Regmi

PREDICTION OF THE NGA-WEST2 AVERAGE HORIZONTAL PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION USING GENETIC EXPRESSION PROGRAMMING, Abdel-Aziz Sanad

EFFECTS OF DAMPING, DURATION, AND SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ON COVARIANCE-BASED STOCHASTIC SUBSPACE IDENTIFICATION, Pramila Shrestha

Theses from 2021 2021

IMPACT OF ENGINEERED TITANIUM DIOXIDE AND ZERO-VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLES ON CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION BY AN AQUATIC MICROBIAL COMMUNITY: EFFECT AT ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT CONCENTRATIONS, Pratima Adhikari

BREWERS’ SPENT GRAIN CONVERSION TO VALUE-ADDED CHEMICALS BY LAB-SYNTHESIZED HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSTS UNDER VISIBLE LIGHT AND MILD CONDITIONS, Sudip Baral

VERTICAL IRREGULARITY EFFECT ON FUNDAMENTAL TIME PERIOD AND CRITICAL COLUMNS OF BUILDING STRUCTURES, Rabin Basnet

COLUMN AXIAL DEFORMATION EFFECT ON THE BEHAVIOR OF BEAMS IN BRACED FRAMES, Bushra Elsnousi

Structural Damage Detection Using Instantaneous Frequency and Stiffness Degradation Method, Raju Jha

SLAB AND TRANSVERSE BEAM STIFFNESS EFFECT ON THE SEISMIC DESIGN OF MOMENT FRAME STRUCTURE, Ashim K C

PENALIZED REGRESSION MODELS FOR CONCRETE STRENGTH ESTIMATION, Chandra Khadka

STUDY OF THE FORMATION OF REGULATED TRIHALOMETHANES DURING CHLORINATION AND CHLORAMINATION BY THE SOIL-EXTRACTED DOM FROM THE CEDAR LAKE WATERSHED, Sajjan Nhuchhen Pradhan

RESILIENT MODULUS OF HIGH PLASTIC CLAY STABILIZED WITH CALCIUM SULFOALUMINATE CEMENT, Pradeep Pandey

Theses from 2020 2020

DEGRADATION OF 1,4-DIOXANE USING METALLIC NANOPARTICLES UNDER VISIBLE LIGHT, Linkon Bhattacharjee

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF FOUNDATIONS FOR TALL WIND TURBINE IN VARIOUS SOILS, Nirajan Gaihre

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES UNDER VISIBLE LIGHT AND IN DARK, Peerzada Ibna Far Madany

BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF THE CRITICAL MEMBER IN STRUCTURES WITH IN-PLANE DISCONTINUOUS BRACED FRAMES, Manjil Niraula

EFFECT OF BUILDING ORIENTATION ON STRUCTURAL RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE MOMENT RESISTING FRAME STRUCTURES, Amanullah Parsa

EFFECTS OF ALUM SLUDGE ON ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT AND PERFORMANCE AT THE CARBONDALE, IL SOUTHEAST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: A CASE STUDY, Melissa Peterein

ANALYZING THE STREAMFLOW FOR FUTURE FLOODING AND RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER CMIP6 CLIMATE PROJECTION, Indira Pokhrel

ANALYZING THE PAST AND FUTURE DROUGHT SITUATIONS USING HIGH RESOLUTION DROUGHT INDEX, Alen Shrestha

BEHAVIOUR AT THE MID-SPAN OF POST TENSIONED, SIMPLE SPAN, SKEWED BOX GIRDER BRIDGES, Shree Krishna Tripathi

Pile foundation design for shear wall with coupling beams, Haoran Yang

Theses from 2019 2019

EFFECTS OF ROTATIONAL RESTRAINT ON THE POST BUCKLING RESPONSE OF THE AXIALLY RESTRAINT NON-SWAY STEEL COLUMN UNDER THERMAL LOADS., Ganesh Acharya

Long-Term Durability of Ordinary Portland Cement and Polypropylene Fiber Stabilized Soil, SUMAN ARYAL

SHEAR WALL VERTICAL DISCONTINUITY EFFECT ON THE FLOOR DIAPHRAGM, Nisha Bhatta

P-DELTA EFFECT ON PRETENSIONED CONCRETE GIRDERS DUE TO PRESTRESSING FORCE, Shiva Reddy Devulapally

Sustainable phytoremediation of chromium (VI) contaminated soil and tetrachloroethylene (PCE)/trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminated groundwater from a Superfund site using sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), Md Hadiuzzaman

THE INTERACTION OF FLEXURE AND COMPRESSION IN REGULAR AND OFFSET EXTERIOR COLUMNS, Angela Joshi

STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF INTEGRATED MULTI-SATELLITE RETRIEVALS FOR GPM (IMERG) TO ESTIMATE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION, Gaurav Raj Lamichhane

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF TRIHALOMETHANE AND HALOACETIC ACID FORMATION POTENTIAL MODELING OF CEDAR LAKE, Kristian Peterson

IMPLICATION OF GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT (GRACE) TO MONITOR GROUNDWATER STORAGE VARIABILITY, Md Mafuzur Rahaman

EFFECT OF DIFFERENT BASELINE CORRECTION METHODS ON THE GROUND ACCELERATION SIGNAL, Sagar Singh Raikhola

EFFECT OF ROTATIONAL RESTRAINTS ON THERMAL POST BUCKLING RESPONSE OF SWAY COLUMNS, Kamal Regmi

EFFECT OF PLASTICITY AND INITIAL COMPACTION CONDITIONS ON SOIL WATER CHARACTERISTICS CURVE OF FINE-GRAINED SOILS, Sanjeev Regmi

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EQUIVALENT LATERAL FORCE METHOD AND RESPONSE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS IN SEISMIC DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL FRAMES, Santosh Shrestha

COMPARISON OF STRENGTH, DUCTILITY AND STIFFNESS OF FREE FLANGE AND WELDED FLANGE PLATE CONNECTION, Mansor Sufran

BEHAVIOR OF FOUNDATION BEAM FOR SHEAR WALL STRUCTURAL SYSTEM WITH COUPLING BEAMS, Manohar Raj Upreti

COMPARISON OF STRENGTH, DUCTILITY AND STIFFNESS FOR RADIUS CUT AND STRAIGHT CUT OF REDUCED BEAM SECTION, Venkat Ramana Reddy Vootukuri

Theses from 2018 2018

SUSTAINABLE REMEDIATION OF WATER CONTAMINATED WITH ORGANIC POLLUTANTS BY USING BIOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Ramesh Aryal

ANALYZING STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY UNDER CMIP5 PROJECTIONS USING SWAT MODEL, Ranjit Bhandari

ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LARGE SCALE CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND STREAMFLOW OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, Swastik Bhandari

CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM EFFECTS ON FLOODPLAIN LAND COVER MANAGEMENT, Addison Scott Jobe

Sustainable Water Usage and Surface Runoff Management in Lagos, Nigeria., Gilles-Arnaud Kandissounon

Comparison of Strength, Stiffness and Ductility of Reduced Beam Section Subjected to Lateral Loads Only and Combined Gravity And Lateral Loads, Frederick Ayisi Mensah

EVALUATION OF STATE-OF-THE-ART PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES: AN APPROACH TO VALIDATE MULTI-SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES, Shekhar Raj Mote

HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION OF SWEET SORGHUM BAGASSE FOR BIO-OIL PRODUCTION, Varsha Niroula

STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES ON STORMWATER SYSTEM, Narayan Nyaupane

USING CLIMATE MODELS TO PREDICT WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN LAS VEGAS VALLEY: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH, Ranjan Parajuli

Liquefaction Characteristics of Sand Reinforced with Small Percentages of Polypropylene FIber, Sudhir Kumar Tripathi

Utilization of Coal Through Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC) Systems And Bioleaching Approach, Zeying Zhu

Theses from 2017 2017

A STUDY ON BEHAVIOR OF NATURAL AND RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETES PREPARED WITH META-KAOLIN AND SILICA FUME, Talal Alshammari

ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) & TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) DAM BREAK ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT BREACHING PARAMETERS USING HEC-RAS, Manahari Bhandari

IMPACT OF WATER TREATMENT PLANT ALUM SLUDGE RESIDUALS ON WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES: A CASE STUDY, Garrett Michael Litteken

UTILIZATION OF RECYCLED COARSE AGGREGATES TO DEVELOP HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE, Sufiyanu Momoh

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF USING GROUND BOTTOM ASH IN GEOPOLYMER CONCRETE, Navin Paija

RISK-TARGETED GROUND MOTION FOR PERFORMANCE- BASED BRIDGE DESIGN, Suman Rana

VERIFICATION OF SHEAR LAG IN LONGITUDINALLY WELDED TENSION MEMBERS, Saurav Shrestha

BUCKLING AND POST-BUCKLING RESPOSNE OF SINGLE CURVATUE BEAM-COLUMNS UNDER THERMAL (FIRE) LOADS, GHULAM H SOLTANI

CORROSION OF STEEL IN MSE WALLS DUE TO DEICERS AND BACKFILL AGGREGATES, Dipesh Tajhya