Date of Award

2023-08-01

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Civil Engineering

Advisor(s)

Cesar C. J. Carrasco

Abstract

In recent decades there has been a significant interest among researchers in developing pavement analysis tools that will work with high efficiency and provide accurate results within a short timeframe. The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has developed a finite element-based pavement analysis software named â??Rigid Pavement Analysis Systemâ?? (RPAS) capable of analyzing Jointed PCC pavements of any number of PCC and soil layers. The processing core of this software was developed in MATLAB with a pre- and post-processing user interface developed in C++. The MATLAB code is compiled into an executable and together with the C++ interface they are installed by the user as a stand-alone application that runs in Windows. While this combo of tools has worked well, it has limited the implementation of new features because it requires development skills in both MATLAB and C++. For this reason, it was decided that to further improve the usability and development of RPAS a new user interface developed in MATLAB was needed.The work leading to the development of this new interface is described in this thesis. The new interface was developed to have a similar appearance to the one developed in C++ to ease the transition for users already familiar with the previous interface. A series of case studies were used to verify the functionality of the interface. There was no need to implement a full verification and validation of the results since that has already been preciously done. The purpose of the case studies was to verify that the user inputs were appropriately passed to the processing core. This research may have a significant contribution to the field of pavement analysis by providing a new tool that in the future could be accessed through a website without the need for a stand-alone application.

Language

en

Provenance

Recieved from ProQuest

File Size

46 p.

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Samina Samrose

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