… University researchers will develop innovative techniques to repair and construct bridges and roadways through a new U.S. Department of Transportation-funded research center, according to Mostafa Tazarv, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. SDSU is part of a consortium of 11 universities working to improve the durability and extend the life … will be on developing techniques to repair and replace bridges, roads and even pipelines,” said Tazarv. His research examines ways to enhance the performance of bridges and bridge components by using innovative materials that reduce damage due to severe events, such as earthquakes and flooding. A 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure assessment reported that more than 9% of the nation’s bridges are …
… is responsible for inspecting roughly 1,000 bridges throughout the state. Considering the size and relative remoteness of Alaska—it is larger than Texas, California and Montana combined—manually inspecting each of these bridges is both time consuming and costly. Mostafa Tazarv, an associate professor in South Dakota State University’s Jerome J. Lohr College … and the National Center for Transportation Infrastructure Durability and Life Extension, which is a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center. Post-event damage assessment tools Over the past couple years, Tazarv and Won have been working to develop BrDATs, a set of bridge damage assessment tools in the form of an internet application. … they can also incredibly time consuming. For example, if Seattle, Washington, were to have an earthquake, all of its bridges in the area would need to be inspected before they are reopened. Prior to Tazarv’s and Won’s project, the only real way to inspect them was to send a certified inspector to each bridge. “You need hundreds of engineers in the area following …
… to: Establishment of the concrete industry management program. Awards of excellence to faculty members by their peers. Growth in scholarships. Endowing the dean’s position. Student competition success at the national level. Advancing all three NASA student projects to the finals in 2023. Growth in academic programs. Growth in external research expenditures. … award in 2014 as well as one from the International Conference on Chemical, Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences in 2019. Other • Larry Leigh , current head of the Image Processing Lab, in fall 2015 became the first SDSU researcher to receive a Google Earth Engine Research Award. Through the one-year, $46,000 grant he was able to use Google Earth … that count is up to seven. The positions and the current holders of the titles: • Jerome J. Lohr Endowed Dean for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, Sanjeev Kumar (see separate milestone entry. • Klingbeil Endowed Department Head for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Kasiviswanathan “Muthu” Muthukumarappan. • Harold C. Hohbach Endowed …
… Guanghui Hua Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering guanghui.hua@sdstate.edu Telephone number: 605-688-6957 314Crothers Engineering Hall 314 Civil & Environ Engineering-Box … of disinfection byproduct precursors based on hydrophobicity and molecular size.” Environmental Science and Technology 41 (9), 3309-3315. 16. Hua, G., Reckhow, D.A. (2007) “Comparison of disinfection byproduct formation from chlorine and alternative disinfectants.” Water Research 41, 1667-1678. 17. Hua, G., Reckhow, D.A. (2006) “Determination of TOCl, … and Technology 40, 3050-3056.American Society of Civil Engineers American Water Works Association AWWA Organic Contaminant Research Committee SD Water and Wastewater Association Registered Professional Engineer – FL1. PI, Evaluation of Nitrate Removal Rates of Denitrification Bioreactors Using Agricultural Residue Media. $136,274, USGS 104b, East Dakota Water …
… and I have systematically measured and studied the breaking-wave-generated flow fields in solitary, regular and irregular waves using the laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) techniques. In a current research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we are employing a volumetric three-component velocimetry (V3V) system to conduct three-component, three-dimensional (3C3D) velocity measurements of sediment-laden flows under plunging waves to answer fundamental … Water Modeling (SMS) system to model two-dimensional (2D) flows around highway structures in different bridge settings (e.g., crossing at a sharp bend, severely contracted bridge opening) and compared the numerical results with field measurements. The objective of this research was to find a cost-effective way to calculate the flow parameters needed for scour …
… Michael Pawlovich Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering michael.pawlovich@sdstate.edu Telephone number: 605-688-5427 324Crothers Engineering Hall 324 Civil & Environ Engineering-Box 2219 University Station Brookings, SD 57007 … Safety Analysis, Systems & Services, Inc. (TSASS) as part of the STRAP program for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)), Nevada, IA (consulting) January 2014 – May 2017: Adjunct Faculty, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. March 2000 – August 2017: Traffic Safety/Crash Data … (DOT) in the Office of Traffic and Safety for 17 years, working as the traffic safety/crash data engineer. During this time, he developed methods and software to analyze crash data in combination primarily with road and traffic attribute data, helped develop an intersection database, and collaborated with university and national researchers on a variety of traffic …
… SDSU named nation’s top civil engineering student chapter for third straight year For the third year in a row, the award for the best student chapter of civil engineering students went to South Dakota State … learned that the SDSU chapter was tops among 416 student chapters nationwide and 26 foreign countries. Before its 2022-2024 streak, SDSU also won the award in 1999 and 2004. SDSU becomes the first chapter to three-peat since Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo won the award in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In the 58-year history of the award, only three schools have won three … Hegg, sophomore representative, Webster; and Claire Mooney, freshman representative, Yankton. Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering May. 9, 12:47 PM Officers for the SDSU chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers gather at the April 23 Engineering Banquet with department head Nadim Wehbe. Pictured, back …
… in Structural Engineering, with a primary focus on developing smart, cost-effective, and sustainable rehabilitation techniques for the aging infrastructure. He also specializes on computational mechanics and finite element techniques that can be used as cost-effective and efficient alternatives to otherwise costly and time consuming physical experiments.• … Corner Beam-Column Joints under Bi-Directional Bending”, Structures vol 60, 105857. 4. Mohammed, M., Ali, A. Y., Kadhim, M. A., and Jawdhari, A. (2024). “RC Deep Beams with Vertical Openings: Behavior and Proposed Mitigation Techniques” ASCE. Journal of Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, vol 29 (No. 1). 5. Jeong, S. H, Ghamari, A., and … vol 26 (9), https://10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001764. 30. Jawdhari, A., Fam, A., and Noël, M. (2021). “Design equation for concrete-filled FRP tubes in flexure including damage effects” Engineering Structures, vol 239, 15 July, 112267. 31. Kadhim, M. A., Jawdhari, A., and Peiris, A. (2021). “Evaluation of Lap-Splices in NSM FRP Rods for Retrofitting RC …