1. RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECKS SUBJECT TO FATIGUE

» ABSTRACT In this thesis the reliability analysis of reinforced concrete bridge decks subjected to high cycle fatigue was undertaken. A simply supported (single span) reinforced concrete bridge deck was specifically used for the investigation. The statistical models of capacity loss were derived. The uncertainties in structural resistance and the applied loadings were fully accommodated using...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,331 engagements |

2. STOCHASTIC ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIAN TIMBERS FOR BRIDGE DECKS IN ACCORDANCE TO AASH...

» ABSTRACT This work provides results for stochastic safetyevaluation of Nigerian timbers for bridge decks in accordance to American Association of State Transportation and Highway Officials (AASHTO) Load Resistance Factored Design (LRFD) design specifications.A timber bridge is modeled in accordance to AASHTO LRFD, 2010, to represent real life experiment in order to depict the structural beha...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,945 engagements |

3. AN APPROACH TO MITIGATING RISK OF SEISMIC-INDUCED BUILDING COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT Buildings world wide are one of the most essential assets of humanity, and they serve as a major contributor to the sustainable development of any nation. The consequences of building collapse is usually colossal ranging from loss of lives, damage to property and its attendant socio economic implications, etc. This menace appears to be worse off in developing countries like Nigeria ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,079 engagements |

4. DESIGN OF A WATER STORAGE AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR WASTEWATER REUSE

» ABSTRACT This research is focused at designing of water storage facilities of size 875,000 litres (750,000 litres for underground water storage, and 125,000 Litres for elevated steel tank) of treated wastewater and its transmission system for the storage and re use of treated wastewater. The project is aimed to structurally design water storage facilities and its transmission system from ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,270 engagements |

5. A FRAMEWORK FOR RURAL ROADS ACCESSIBILITY PLANNING

» ABSTRACT The concept of public participation and how it can be incorporated in transport planning was studied. Current planning methods and steps were reviewed, and a tool which incorporates public participation in planning (questionnaire) was developed. This study was carried out using questionnaires that incorporate socioeconomic factors that affect transportation in the rural areas of Kaduna...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,472 engagements |

6. COST EVALUATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN NIGERIA USING HUMAN CAPITAL APPROACH

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY An unpalatable incident that occurs uncertainly or unexpectedly is referred as Accident.; it can be characterized as an occurrence that happens by some coincidence. Road traffic accident is hence is an unforeseen marvel that happens due to the utilization of vehicles, and trucks, on the highway, when a traffic accident happens it could be lethal, bringi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 6,600 engagements |

7. EFFECT OF MIX RATIO AND CURING WATER ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF OIL PALM SHE...

» ABSTRACT In this study, the compressive strengths and Modulus of elasticity of lightweight Concrete with oil palm shells as partial replacement of coarse aggregate was presented. The different types of mixing water were used, namely, clean water from Ahmadu Bello University Water Works, Salt water, obtained from Lagos Shore and Pond water obtained from Nagoye, Zaria. Also three mix ratios we...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 6,111 engagements |

8. EVALUATION OF SAW DUST ASH AS MINERAL FILLER IN ASPHALT MIXTURE

» ABSTRACT The quest for economy in asphalt production using locally available materials necessitated this research which is aimed at evaluating the suitability of Saw Dust Ash (SDA) as mineral filler in asphalt mixture.Chemical analysis, sieve analysis, specific gravity and plasticity index tests were performed on SDA. Asphalt briquettes prepared using Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) without saw ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,245 engagements |

9. INCORPORATION OF RELIABILITY INTO NIGERIAN EMPIRICAL MECHANISTIC PAVEMENT ANALYS...

» Abstract This work was aimed at providing the most appropriate Nigerian Empirical Mechanistic Flexible Pavement Analysis and Design method (NEMPAD) by incorporating Reliability, using First order reliability method (FORM), considering all the input variabilities, uncertainties, and seasonal variations, with the aid of Matlab to express the algorithms. A frame work was developed for computation ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,430 engagements |

10. RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF A PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAM

» ABSTRACT The Reliability Analysis of a Prestressed Concrete Beam (PCB) was presented using First Order Reliability Method and Eurocode 2 procedures to carry out the analysis. The results show that the safety of the PCBin bending decreasedfrom 2.9 to 1.0 and 3.1 to 2.6 as prestress force and the depth from the extreme compressive fiber to the neutral axis of the beam increased from 20kN to 100kN an...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 100 pages | 5,789 engagements |

11. STOCHASTIC EVALUATION OF OFFSHORE CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE PLATFORMS ON ...

» ABSTRACT A stochastic evaluation of the performance of Carbon Fibre Offshore Plastics (CFRP) offshore platform consideringsubmerged and partially submerged environmental conditions wasanalyzed usingSwedish code,Boverket (2004). A Probability based analysis using First Order Reliability Method (FORM) was used to determine the safety index of the deck considering varied load ratios, effective dep...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,611 engagements |

12. STOCHASTIC SECTION MODULUS REQUIREMENT FOR CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC PULTR...

» ABSTRACT Six Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) pultruded beam section from The Pultex® Pultrusion Design Manual Volume 4 Revision 8 Copyright © 2004 by Creative Pultrusions Inc., were assumed to be simply supported doubly symmetric I section, with uniformly distributed load of 3.5kN/m2 applied over the length of 3.050m each. A comparative analysis of section modulus effect under the lo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,474 engagements |

13. WATER TREATMENT PLANT MODEL

» ABSTRACT The technical report of this project deals with the design of a water treatment plant model which consists of five tanks. Water treatment plant model is made up of glass with pipe joining them together to allow movement of water from one tank to another. 6mm plain glass is used for base and 5mm plain glass is used for other component. These glasses are joined together with addition of sil...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 11,097 engagements |

14. COMPARING FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS USING ANNUAL PEAK RAINFALL DATA

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Flood is a basic phenomenon of nature, it occurs during or immediately after an intensive rainfall or large and sudden snow melt due to increase in temperature (in the glacial/temperate countries). Also, flood is a high water stage in which overflows its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land such as a river inundated its f...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,316 engagements |

15. DESIGN OF ACCESS ROAD FROM ‘TIPE’ SCHOOL GATE TO THE SCHOOL STAFF QUARTERS

» ABSTRACT General procedure for complete road design which is divided into geometric design, drainage design, and pavement design were adopted in the course of execution of this project. Introductory discussion were made under which highway planning, geometric design, drainage design, pavement design, and maintenance of highway were briefly discussed. Brief history of the polytechnic, scope of the ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 36 pages | 5,002 engagements |

16. DEVELOPMENT AND RELEVANCE OF SOFTWARE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION

» ABSTRACT A significant revolution with computers’ usage in civil engineering business and construction process has been presented. Computers reduce all the extensive work specifically through the introduction of programs and software. Lately, software development has effectively contributed in various civil engineering disciplines, as it provides engineers with the ability to perform variety ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,937 engagements |

17. IMPORTANCE OF AUTOCAD IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 General Introduction Engineering has been an aspect of life since the begging of human existence. Civil engineering becomes the oldest practice of engineering after military engineering and has commences between 4000Bc and 2000Bc in ancient Egypt in which during this time transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 9,209 engagements |

18. DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENHANCED CHECK POINTING TECHNIQUE IN GRID COMPUTING USING PROG...

» Abstract Grid computing is a collection of computer resources from multiple locations assembled to provide computational services, storage, data or application services. Grid computing users gain access to computing resources with little or no knowledge of where those resources are located or what the underlying technologies, hardware, operating system, and so on are. Reliability and performanc...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,925 engagements |

19. NETWORK ANALYZER AND NETWORK MONITORING TOOL USING SNMP

» ABSTRACT This project is organized in five chapters. Chapter one explains the introduction of the proposed project. It described the problem statement of the project, aim and objectives and expected contribution to knowledge. Chapter two presents a vivid literature review of the concept of network analyzer and related works. Chapter three discuss the design ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,301 engagements |

20. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONGESTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR GSM OPERATION

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The world is fast becoming a global village and a necessary tool for this process is communication of which telecommunication is a key player. The quantum development in the telecommunications industry all over the world is very rapid as one innov...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,651 engagements |

21. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED TRANSCRIPT GENERATING SYSTEM

» ABSTRACT The system solves the problem of missing result of students in tertiary institutions and the system proffers a fast and accurate system for processing real time results and transcripts for students. The system was built with MYSQ programming languages. CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION A system is a collection of inter related and inter connect...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,601 engagements |

22. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

» ABSTRACT Company personnel are the backbone of any company therefore their management plays a major role in deciding the success of an organization. A flexible and easy to use personnel management software solution for small and medium sized companies provides modules for personnel management thereby organization and companies are able to manage the crucial organization asset – people. The g...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,022 engagements |

23. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES SYSTEM

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 INSIGHT INTO LIBRARY SYSTEM A library can be defined as a room or building where books are kept and referenced. It is an area of multifarious activity on book management. A library as a repository of knowledge, houses collections of books, both reference and general, technical reports, periodicals, journals, conference proceedings and the l...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,206 engagements |

24. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE

» TABLE OF CONTENT Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Insight to online marketplace 1.2 Historical overview of online marketplace 1.3 Statement of problem 1.4 Objective of the study 1.5 Significance of the study 1.6 Scope of the project 1.7 Limitation of the study 1.8 The organisation and her environment 1.9 Definition of terms CHAPT...Continue Reading »