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Retaining walls are earth retention structures that are essential in the majority of the construction projects for the overall project's engineering performance, as well as its budget and schedule. These elements constitute a key role in urban development, industrial facilities …

Extant literature on the Palestinian-Israeli separation wall privileges the wall's function in border-making, while ignoring other discursive and spacial functions it fulfills. My thesis reaches beyond the border-making function of the wall, resituating it as a node among differ…

This thesis reexamines the site of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II as a site of architectural precedent. The Camps occupy what has become a quiet chapter in the history textbook, often regarded as an eccentric aberration within American history. Yet the…

Border walls are built by any and every kind of country to keep people out. Sometimes, as is the case of the Berlin Wall, they wanted to keep people in. The United States border wall has been built to keep Mexican citizens from crossing illegally into the U.S. in an attempt to f…

A non-invasive transient state measurement method for wind tunnels would be very valuable as an experimental tool. Traditional measurement techniques for transient flows, e.g., hot wire anemometry, require sensors that are placed in the flow. Alternatively, particle image veloci…

The Aurelian Wall represents the largest construction project of the Third Century Crisis, an era of political, social, and economic unrest that nearly proved fatal to the cohesion of the Roman Empire. Investigations of the period have often omitted the economic aspects of the C…