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On Sunken Land: The Environmental and Social Impacts of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam in Brazil, Coley Rose Martin, UG '23 (2272645)

In October of 1982, a Brazilian and Paraguayan company known as Itaipu Binacional closed the side canals of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River in Brazil, launching an ambitious…

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RF Sensor Systems for Resilient Smart Infrastructure, Bryan Boyd, UG '24 (2263555)

Modern day displacement sensors can measure displacement due to cracks in concrete structures at most in 2-dimensions, and can mainly measure the displacements very close to the sensor itself. This…

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Elastic Shear Buckling Analysis of Low-Frequency Sinusoid Bridge Plate Girders, Eleni Retzepis, UG '24 (2276709)

Flat steel web plates are used in various structural applications such as in plate girders in bridges to transfer large loads across long spans. However, these plates are usually very slim, which…

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Celebrate Princeton Invention 2015 Claire White

Claire White, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, talks about her work on sustainable building materials. She studies…

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