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Research
Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
Research Areas:
- Sustainability
Sustainability research focuses on interdisciplinary education
and research in science, engineering, and sustainability. Research
areas include bioproducts, energy and electricity, green design
and construction.
- Design
Design research focuses on primarily bridges and structures and
ranges from issues of defining buckling capacity of bottom compression
flanges in steel box girders, to identifying best practices in
foundation design to eliminate excessive conservative design in
geotechnical capacity, and developing standards for fiber reinforced
plastic (FRP) in appropriate bridge types.
- Construction and Materials
Construction research will focus on construction issues similar
to a recently funded PennDOT research project that modeled and
evaluated erection sequence and construction methods used in the
Ford City Bridge project; studying construction practices related
to concrete creep and very high strength concrete; and conducting
a longitudinal study to analyze and predict the relationship between
bid price and final prices of construction projects. Materials
research will be broad and relate to many areas including non-destructive
evaluation, structural health monitoring, new product evaluations,
and pavement analysis and modeling.
- Environmental and Multimodal Research
Environmental and multimodal research areas deal with establishing
new limits or standards to ultimately expedite permitting procedures;
developing a dynamic weather and hydrologic prediction system
for intelligent traffic systems; and understanding the relationship
between large shopping centers and transportation need in both
the sustainability and construction contexts.
- Maintenance
Since the CEE Department has significant expertise in the area
of maintenance-related research and testing, this area has great
potential. The CEE faculty has strength in addressing issues associated
with repair and retrofit of bridge structures and pavements, including
improving and understanding the field application of adhesively
bonded repair schemed for concrete and steel structures. In addition,
the faculty has experience in non-destructive testing and pavement
performance.
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