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Project Technical Papers
The technical papers listed below are partial or interim results of work funded by the SERRI Program which is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under an Interagency Agreement with the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE). The views and conclusions contained in these technical papers are those of the projects participants and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of DHS, DOE, or the SERRI Program.

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A Simulation Environment for Planning, Training, and Assessment of Emergency Response and Evacuation Capabilities in High Consequence Sports Events (University of Southern Mississippi - Dr. Lou Marciani)
Technical Paper Titles
Southern Miss to Help Direct NFL Security Workshops
Validation of Agent Based Crowd Egress Simulation - Prepared for the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Conference (Toronto, Canada on May 10-14, 2010)
A Thermal Face Recognition System for Security Applications by Face Pattern Words (Alcorn State University - Dr. Yufeng Zheng)
Technical Paper Titles
A Novel Orientation Code for Face Recognition (2011 SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference, 25-29 April 2011, Orlando, FL)
Biosensor Research (Middle Tennessee State University - Dr. Andrienne Friedli)
Technical Paper Titles
Bacillus pumilus: Possible Model for the Bioweapon Bacillus anthracis
Computational Tools for Water Security (University of Mississippi - Dr. S. Y. Wang)
Technical Paper Titles
Numerical Modeling of Ozonation of Organic Chemicals in Surface Water
Data-Sharing Middleware for Information Dissemination Among Heterogeneous Sources (University of Tennessee - Dr. Hairong Qi)
Technical Paper Titles
Control-Based Real-Time Metadata Matching for Information Dissemination
Development of an Integrated Sensor System for Real-time Monitoring of Metabolites of Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents, Pesticides, and E. coli in Food and Water (Alcorn State University - Dr. Yolanda Jones)
Technical Paper Titles
Laser reflectometry of submegahertz Liquid Meniscus Ringing
Development of an Integrated Simulation Tool for Predicting Disastrous Flooding, Water Contamination, Sediment Transport and their Impacts on the Environment (University of Mississippi - Dr. Yafei Jai)
Technical Paper Titles
Validation of CCHE2D Model Using Digital Image Processing Techniques and Satellite Imagery
Numerical Simulation of Chemical Spills Using CCHE2D Model and Chemical Property Database
Estimation of Manning's Roughness Coefficient Distribution for Hydrodynamic Model Using Remotely Sensed Land Cover Features
Numerical Modeling Flow through a Breached Levee and during Levee Closure (Paper Presentation for the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010, Rhode Island)
Identification of Contaminant Point Source in Surface Waters Based on Backward Location Probability Density Function Method
Development of Remote Sensing Based Index for Estimating/Mapping Suspended Sediment Concentration in River and Lake Environments (Paper presented at the 2010 International Symposium on Ecohydraulicsin Seoul, Korea)
Environmental Impact of Flow, Sediment and Salinity on Ecosystem of Lake Pontchartrain due to Flood Release from Bonnet Carre' Spillway (Paper presented at the 2010 International Symposium on Ecohydraulics in Seoul, Korea)
Effective Mold and Contaminant Remediation for Flood and Water Damaged Homes (Mississippi State University - Dr. Terry Amburgey)
Technical Paper Titles
Temperature and Power Consumption Measurements as a Means for Evaluating Building Thermal Performance - Applied Energy Journal
Effect of Mechanically Induced Ventilation on the Indoor Air Quality of Building Envelopes - Energy Buildings Journal
Moisture Migration in Building Envelopes and its Impact on Indoor Air Quality (Master's Thesis)
Mold Prevention and Treatment in a Water-Damaged Home
Mold Fungi as a Major Impediment to Cleaning/Repairing Flooded and Rain-Damaged Homes
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Local and Regional Communities in Planning and Training for Improvised Explosive Device Threats and Attacks on Sport Venues (University of Southern Mississippi - Dr. Lou Marciani)
Technical Paper Titles
A Geospatial Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Homeland Security Applications (Paper by Dr. Daniel B. Koch, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Increasing Community Disaster Resilience through Targeted Strengthening of Critical Infrastructure (Mississippi State University - Dr. Isaac L. Howard)
Technical Paper Titles
Carruth, W.D., Howard, I.L. (2011). “Evaluation of Unconfined Compression Area Correction Methods for Cementitious and Fiber Stabilized Fine Grained Soils,” Geo-Frontiers 2011, Abstract 1184 Accepted, Paper Submitted May 27, 2010 and In Review. http://www
Howard, I.L., Badran, W.H. (2011). “Comparison of Hand Held Gage and Unconfined Compression Results in Low Strength Cementitious Stabilized Materials,” Geo-Frontiers 2011, Abstract 1186 Accepted, Paper Submitted May 27, 2010 and In Review. http://www.geof
Use of Hot Mixed Warm Compacted Asphalt in Construction (Paper submitted for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board - 31 July 2010)
Jeremy A. Sharp, William H. McAnally - "Numerical Overtopping Levee Grid for Storm Surge" - Paper submitted to the Advances in Water Resource Engineering.
Shear Stress Estimates for Combined Wave Overtopping and Surge Overflow at an Earthen Levee (Paper submitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering - by Hughes, Shaw, and Howard)
Alternative Geotextile Tube Fill Materials for Marine Applications (Paper submitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2012 GeoCongress Conference - by Howard, Trainer, and Yee)
Measurement of Cementitiously Stablized Solid Slurry Thermal Profiles (Paper submitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2012 GeoCongress Conference - by Sullivan, Cost and Howard)
Preliminary Plans and Details for Hot-Mixed Warm-Compacted Asphalt Demonstration
Innovative Levee Strengthening and Testing under Full-Scale Overtopping Conditions (Jackson State University - Dr. Farshad Amini)
Technical Paper Titles
Numerical Simulation of Surge Overflow at a Levee Using Shallow Water SPH Method
Modeling of Surge Overtopping and Hydraulic Erosion of an Earthen Levee Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (Paper Presented at the Sixth International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, India, 2010)
Slope Stability Modeling of New Orleans Hurricane Protection Levees with Geotextile Reinforcement (Paper Presented at the Sixth International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, India, 2010)
Numerical Simulation of Wave Overtopping and Erosion of Levee (Paper Presented at the 2nd Specialty Conference on Disaster Mitigation - Winnepeg, Canada - 2010)
Three Innovative Levee Strengthening Systems under Overtopping Conditions (Masters Thesis by Clifton Hulitt)
Innovative Vegetated High Performance Turf Reinforcement Mat for Levee Protection (Undergraduate Research Paper for Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experiences, by Justin M. Roberts and William J. McCleave)
Investigation of a Surge and Wave Reduction by Vegetation (University of Mississippi - Dr. Weiming Wu)
Technical Paper Titles
A One-Dimensional Shock-Captureing Model for Long Wave Run-Up on Vegetated and Non-Vegetated Beaches (Paper submitted to the Journal of Advances in Water Resources)
Laboratory Measurements of Wave Attenuation Thorugh Model and Live Vegetation
A Vertical 2-D Model for Wave Propagation in Vegetated and Non-Vegetated Waters
A Hybrid Finite-Volume/Finite-Difference Scheme for One-Dimensional Boussinesq Equations to Simulate Wave Attenuation due to Vegetation (Submitted to the 2011 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress on May 22-26, 2011 organized by ASCE)
Development and Validation of a Wave-Action Model for Simulating Wave Attenuation due to Vegetation (Submitted to the 2011 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress on May 22-26, 2011 organized by ASCE)
Wave Climate in a Shallow Estuary of a Rapidly Eroding Coast (Submitted to the Geophysical Research Letters)
Levee Assessment via Remote Sensing (Mississippi State University - Dr. James Aanstoos)
Technical Paper Titles
Use of Remote Sensing to Screen Earthen Levees (to appear in the AIPR Proceedings)
Minimal Trustworthy Computing Base (TCB) for SCADA Security (Mississippi State University - Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar)
Technical Paper Titles
An Efficient Trusted Computing Base (TCB) for a SCADA System Monitor (Paper Submitted to the IEEE Smartgrid Conference at NIST, October 2010)
Modeling Micro-Economic Resilience and Restoration After a Large Scale Catastrophe: An Analysis of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina (University of Southern Mississippi - Dr. David Butler & Dr. Edward Sayre)
Technical Paper Titles
Hurricane Katrina Bibliography
Economic Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on South Mississippi: Initial Findings on Revenue
Economic Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on South Mississippi: Initial Findings on Tax Revenue
Employment Impact of Hurricane Katrina on South Mississippi: The 5-Year Anniversary
The Geography of Recovery: An Analysis of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina (Manuscript submitted to the Journal of Economic Geography - 18 July 2011)
Multi-Purpose, Multi-Scale Storm Surge and Flood Forecasting for Planning and Preparedness (Jackson State University - Dr. Shahrouz Aliabadi)
Technical Paper Titles
A Simple Binary Search Algorithm for Short Notice Evacuation Scheduling and Routing
Finite Element Methods in Overland Flow Modeling for an Integrated Multi-Scale Forecasting Scheme (Figures)
Finite Element Methods in Overland Flow Modeling for an Integrated Multi-Scale Forecasting Scheme (Text)
Parallel Platform for Multi-Scale CFD Storm Flood Forecast Using Geographical Information System Applications
A Short Report on WRF and ADCIRC
A Network Flow Based Optimization Approach for Hurricane Evacuation Planning
Integrated Hurricane and Overland Flow Modelling in Parallel Platform
Hybrid Finite Element Method / Volume for Shallow Water Equations
Integrated Simulation Technology for Flooding Prediction of Critical Infrastructures in Mississippi Gulf Coast (Paper Presented at the Fourth Annual IFIP Working Group 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection)
Nano-Enhanced and Bio-Inspired Composite Materials for Mitigation and Protection of TIH Railcars and Stationary Tanks against High Power Impact (University of Mississippi - Dr. Ahmed Al-Ostaz)
Technical Paper Titles
Predicting the Response of Polyurea Coated High Hard Steel Plates to Ballistic Impact by Fragment Simulating Projectiles (Submitted to the Journal of Computational Mechanics)
Nano-Particle Reinforced Composites for Critical Infrastructure Protection (University of Mississippi - Dr. Alexander H.D. Cheng)
Technical Paper Titles
Design Parameters Governing Post-Damage Stability of Low Rise Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures Subjected to External Blast Loading
Particle Modeling of Dynamic Fracture Simulations of a 2D Polymeric Material (nylon-6,6) Subject to the Impact of a Rigid Indenter
Use of Nano-Particle Enhanced Composites to Reduce Blast Vulnerability of Low Rise RC Frame Buildings
Effect of Strain Rates on Energy Absorption of Exfoliated Graphite Platelet and Cloisite Nanclay Reinforced Vinyl Ester Nancomposites
Particle Modeling for Blasting Simulations
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Graphite Platelets and Nanoclay Reinforced Vinyl Ester and MWCNT Reinforced Nylon 6,6 Nancomposites
Particle Modeling of Dynamic Fracture Simulations of a 2D Polymeric Material (nylon-6,6) Subject to the Impact of a Rigid Indenter
Hybrid Lattice Particle Modeling of Dynamic Fracture Simulations of 2D Elastic Spring Networks: Theoretical Considerations
Blast and Impact Resistant Composite Structures for Navy Ships
A macroscopic-level Hybrid Lattice Particle Modeling of Mode-I Crack Propagation in Ductile and Brittle Materials
Properties of Portland Cement Major Constituents Using Molecular Dynamic Simulations
A Molecular Dynamics and Microporomechanics Study on the Mechanical Properties of Major Constituents of Hydrated Cement
Concrete as a Hierarchical Structural Composite Material
Dynamic Mechanical and Impact Property Correlation of Nanoclay and Graphite Platelet Reinforced Vinyl Ester Nanocomposites
Energy Absorption Characteristics of MWCNT/Nylon 6,6; and Nanoclay and Graphite Platelet/Vinyl Ester Nanocomposites
Creep and Stress Relaxation Modeling of Nanoclay and Graphite Platelet Reinforced Vinyl ester Nanocomposites
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Graphite –Vinyl Ester Nanocomposite and Its Constituents
Effects of Bromination on the Viscoelastic Response of Vinyl ester Nanocomposites
Aging Infrastructure: Evaluation, Repair, Improvement and Protection
Structures Subjected to Blast Loading: Protection, Stabilization and Repair
Punch-shear characteristics of nanoclay and graphite platelet reinforced vinyl ester plates, laminated face sheets and sandwich composites under low-velocity impact
Shock response and finite element modeling of nanoclay and graphite platelet reinforced vinyl ester nanocomposites
Mechanical Properties Measurement of Hydrated Cement Paste Using Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy
Hybrid Lattice Particle Modeling of Wave Propagation Induced Fracture of Solids
Blast and Impact Resistant Composite Structures for Navy Ships
Nano-Particle Reinforced Polymer for Blast Protection of Unreinforced Masonry Wall: Laboratory Blast Load Simulation and Design Models
Shock, Ballistic and Low Velocity Punch-Shear Response of Nanoparticle Reinforced Panels, Laminated Face Sheets and Sandwich Composites
Column Capacity Analysis for Determing Blast Resistance of Steel Structures in Multi-Hazard Design and Evaluation
Punch-shear and Ballistic Energy Absorption Characteristics of Nanoreinforced Panels, Laminated Face Sheets and Sandwich Composites
Physics-Based Simulation and Experiment on Blast Protection of Infill Walls and Sandwich Composites Using New Generation of Nano Particle Reinforced Materials
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Graphite - Vinylester Nanocomposites and their Constituents
Performance Evaluation of Low-Rise Concrete Frame Building Structures in Moderate Seismic Zones Subject to External Blast Loading
Agent-Based Evacuation Simulation of Nanocomposite Reinforced Building Subject to IED Attack
Viscoelastic and Shock Response of Nanoclay and Graphite Platelet Reinforced Vinyl Ester Nanocomposites
Correlating Micro/Nano Structure Morphology to High-Strain Rate Performance of Nano-Particle Reinforced Polymeric Materials
Blast Vulnerability Evaluation of Concrete Masonry Unit Infill Walls Retrofitted with Nano Particle Reinforced Polyurea: Modelling and Parametric Evaluation
Paper Submitted to the Journal of Fire and Structures
Rapid Detection of Agriterrorism via Remote Sensing (Mississippi State University - Dr. Lori Bruce)
Technical Paper Titles
Rapid Detection of Agricultural Food Crop Contamination Via Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Utilization of Local and Global Hyperspectral Features via Wavelet Packets and Multiclassifiers for Robust Target Recognition
Sensitivity of Hyperspectral Classification Algorithms to Training Sample Size
Fusion of Spectral Reflectance and Derivative Information for Robust Hyperspectral Land Cover Classification
Real-Time Detection of Chemicals and Biological Pathogens in Fluids (University of Southern Mississippi - Dr. Gordon Cannon)
Technical Paper Titles
Generation of a Recombinant Antibody Library for Implementation in a QCM-Based Biosensor
Residential Roof Covering Investigation of Wind Resistance of Asphalt Shingles (University of Florida - Dr. Forrest Masters)
Technical Paper Titles
Wind Resistance of Asphat Roof Shingles
Residential Roof Covering Investigation of Wind Resistance of Asphalt Shingles (Paper submitted to the ASTM D08 Seventh Symposium on Roofing Research and Standards Development to be held in Tampa, FL in December 2011)
Ongoing Research at the University of Florida Directed Toward the Wind Resistance of Asphalt Shingles (Paper submitted to the 2011 International Conference on Wind Engineering - 6 May 2011)
Resilient Home Program (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes - Timothy Smail)
Technical Paper Titles
Perceptions on the Natural Disaster Resilience of Homes in the Southeastern United States
A Performance-based Rating System for Home Resilience: The ReScU Concept
Wind Uplift Brochure
Effectiveness of Educational Tools for Hurricane Resilience in Homes
Screening of Levees by Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mississippi State University - Dr. James V. Aanstoos)
Technical Paper Titles
Classification of Levees using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery
Semantics-Driven Knowledge Discovery System for Wide Area Monitoring of Electric Power Grid (Mississippi State University - Dr. Nicholas Younan)
Technical Paper Titles
Common Information Model for Sensors
Development of Corrective Actions for Higher Order Contingencies (M.S. Thesis - December 2008)
Comparison of State Estimation Algorithms Considering Phasor Measurement Units and Major and Minor Data Loss (M.S. Thesis - December 2008)
Information Services for Smart Grid
Comparison of State Estimation Algorithms for Extreme Contingencies
Developing Corrective and Preventive Action for Extreme Contingency
Wide Area Monitoring Using Common Information Model and Sensor Web
Cognitive Task Analysis of Power Grid Monitors
Sensor Web for Interoperability in Power Systems
Standards-Based Sensor Web for Wide Area Monitoring of Power Systems (M. S. Thesis - August 2009)
Advancements in Power System Monitoring and Interoperability (M. S. Thesis - December 2009)
Sensorpedia (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Bryan Gorman)
Technical Paper Titles
Unifying Isolated Sensor Systems using Web 2.0 and Open Standards (David Resseguie and Scott Fairgrieve - Sensors Magazine Article - 1 May 2010)
Sensorpedia App Exploits Big Data Trend
Simulation-Based Decision Support System for Water Infrastructural Security (DSS-WISE) (University of Mississippi - Dr. Mustafa Altinakar)
Technical Paper Titles
Modeling and Risk Analysis for Floods Due to Failure of Water Control Infrastructures
Risk and Vulnerability Studies for Water Infrastructures Using a GIS-Based Decision Support System with 2D Numerical Flood Modeling
Representation of Linear Terrain Features in a 2D Flood Model with Regular Cartesian Mesh
New Generation Modeling and Decision Support Tools for Studying Impacts of Dam Failures
Two-Sided Cut-Cell Boundary Method for Simulating Linear Terrain Features and 1D Stream Flows on a 2D Rectangular Mesh
2D Modeling of Big Bay Dam Failure in Mississippi: Comparison with Field Data and 1D Model Results (Presentation for the 2010 River Flow Conference)
Representation of Dam-Breach Geometry on a Regular 2-D Mesh Using Quadtree Local Mesh Refinement (Presentation for the 2010 River Flow Conference)
Web-Based Implementation of Fast Dam Break Flood Modeling Capabilities (ASDSO Dam Safety 2011 Conference - 25-29 September 2011, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Washington, DC)
Two-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Dam-Break Flows Over Natural Terrain Using a Central Explicit Scheme (Manuscript for Advances in Water Resources Journal which is published by Elsevier)
Socio-Economic Resilience and Dynamic Micro-Economic Analysis of Large Scale Catastrophe (University of Mississippi - Dr. Richard Forgette)
Technical Paper Titles
Measuring and Modeling Community Resilience: SERP and DyME
Southeast Region Critical Infrastructure Protection Center Initiative (CIPC) (Mississippi State University - Dr. Rayford Vaughn)
Technical Paper Titles
Engineering Future Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Challenges, Research Needs, and Roadmap
A Retrofit Network Intrusion Detection System for MODBUS RTU and ASCII Industrial Control Systems (45th IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences)
A Control System Testbed to Validate Critical Infrastructure Protection Concepts (Submitted to the International Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection)
Specification, Validation and Verification of Imagery Products for Disaster Management and Response (University of Mississippi - Dr. Greg Easson)
Technical Paper Titles
Improved Feature Extraction from High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Object Geometry (Paper Presented at the SPIE 2010 Conference)
Structural, Material, and Geotechnical Solutions to Levee and Floodwall Construction and Retrofitting (University of Mississippi - Dr. Alexander H.D. Cheng)
Technical Paper Titles
Geometric and Simulation Parameter Effects on Elastic Moduli of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Using Molecular Dynamics Approach
Erosion Study of New Orleans Levee Materials Subjected to Plunging Water
Reducing Erodibility of Earthen Levee Using Engineered Flood Wall Sections
Evaluation of Structural Cap for the Integrated Flood Wall System of New Orleans
Evaluation of I-wall in New Orleans with Calibrated Soil Parameters
Evaluation of a T-Wall Section in New Orleans Considering 3D Soil-Structure Interaction
Erosion Control Using Modified Soils
Erosion Study of New Orleans Levee Soils Subjected to Plunging Water
Numerical Evaluation of Different Retrofitting Techniques of New Orleans Flood Walls and Implementation of Advanced Constitutive Model in FLAC3D (Doctoral Disseration by Sudarshan Adhikari - March 2011)
Tools for Enhanced Mapping and Managing Post-Disaster Debris (Mississippi State University - Dr. Charles A. Waggoner)
Technical Paper Titles
Determining South Mississippi Forest Susceptibility to Windthrow and Shear Damage in a Hurricane Environment through Data Mining of Meterological, Physiographical, Pedological, and Tree Level Data
Tornado Safe Rooms (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes - Mr. Eric Vaughn)
Technical Paper Titles
A Safe Room? Or a New Home Entertainment Center?
War Games for Flood Emergency Managers (University of Mississippi - Dr. Mustafa Altinakar)
Technical Paper Titles
Efficient Shallow Water Simulations on GPUs: Implementation, Visualization, Verification, and Validation (Scientific Article Submitted to Journal Published by Elsevier)
Efficient Shallow Water Simulations on GPUs: Implementation, Visualization, Verification, and Validation (Scientific Article Submitted to Journal Published by Elsevier)
Overland Flow Modeling Using Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Equations (Paper Submitted to the ASCE Journal of Hydrology)
Overland Flow Modeling Using Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Equations (Paper Submitted to the ASCE Journal of Hydrology) - FIGURES