CTR Researchers
This page presents information about the professional researchers on staff at CTR as well as the faculty researchers at UT Austin.
Professional Researchers
| Researcher | Specialty |
|---|---|
Terry Dossey |
Prediction models for concrete properties based on aggregate chemical composition; design and maintenance of the rigid pavement database, Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement Database; development of thermochrons and hydrochrons to monitor long-term concrete strain. |
Robert Harrison |
Economic impact studies, trade issues, cost/benefit analysis, transport sector planning; NAFTA trade corridors, inland ports, Texas-Mexico border trade issues. More biographical information. |
Nathan Hutson | Rail, ports, international trade, energy efficiency of transportation |
Nabeel Khwaja | Innovative construction; solutions to workzone mobility issues; challenges on mega-reconstruction projects and solutions; public-private partnerships (PPP); enterprise project scheduling systems;lessons-learned systems for knowledge management. |
Lisa Loftus-Otway | Transportation law and policy; energy, environment, and sustainable development law and policy; freight planning and policy; public-private partnerships (PPP); transportation planning and finance |
Mike Murphy | Network-level pavement management, highway design and evaluation, non-destructive testing, highway safety, super heavy and load zone analysis and policies regarding truck size and weight impacts on pavement performance. |
Khali Persad | Transportation planning and construction. See also Austin IAC Project |
Jolanda Prozzi | Freight planning and policy, energy and environmental policy analysis, transport finance and economics. |
Manuel Trevino | Pavement performance; forensic study on Full-Scale Bonded Concrete Overlay, continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), analysis of applicability of asphalt concrete overlays. |
Yetkin Yildirim | Pavements; flexible pavement, Superpave, asphalt. See also the Superpave and Asphalt Research Program and the Pavement Preservation Center |
Faculty Researchers
| Researcher | Specialty |
|---|---|
David Allen |
Atmospheric chemistry, urban air quality and pollution prevention, environmental and industrial reaction engineering, air quality management in Texas. |
Michael Barrett |
The quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff; statistical analysis of water quality data, structural and nonstructural best management practices, watershed-based stormwater management plans. |
Oguzhan Bayrak |
Behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, earthquake engineering, evaluation of structures in distress, use of fiber reinforced polymers for corrosion repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete. |
Chandra Bhat |
Transportation systems analysis, travel demand modeling, policy evaluation of the effect of transportation control measures on mobility and mobile source emissions, marketing research of competitive positioning strategies for transportation services, air travel behavior modeling, individual activity pattern analysis, driver behavior in response to real-time traffic information dissemination, spatial analysis techniques, freight logistics, facility location modeling. |
Jack Breen |
Aesthetics of short and medium span bridges, developing durability design criteria for post-tensioned concrete, and developing structural concrete detailing procedures. |
Carlos Caldas |
3D sensing and modeling for construction automation, infrastructure systems, and information systems integration; construction engineering and management; computational science and engineering. |
Randall Charbeneau |
Groundwater hydrology, subsurface fate and transport of hazardous and radioactive wastes, groundwater pollution, dose and risk assessment, multiphase flow, and mathematical modeling. Recently funded research includes fate and transport of hazardous organic chemicals in the vadose zone, risk and performance assessment for a low level radioactive waste disposal facility, and evaluation of water quality impacts from highway construction and runoff through monitoring and laboratory investigations of performance of temporary and permanent pollution control structures and sediment traps. |
Richard Corsi |
Characterization and control of sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in both indoor and outdoor environments; emissions from liquid systems to indoor and outdoor air. |
Michael Engelhardt | Bridges; civil engineering; composite materials; disaster studies; earthquake engineering; mechanical engineering; structural analysis; structural design; offshore structures; composite materials. |
Kevin Folliard |
Portland cement concrete, concrete durability, high-performance concrete, controlled low-strength materials, construction materials, structural engineering. |
David Fowler |
Polymer concrete, corrosion protection of concrete, bonded concrete overlays, repair of concrete, concrete sealers, FRP wraps for concrete protection, materials data base for highway materials, monomers for sealing cracks in concrete, use of micro fines for producing concrete, test methods and mitigation methods for alkali-silica reaction in concrete, effect of aggregate characteristics on concrete properties, frictional resistance of seal coat pavements, protective coatings for reinforcing steel in concrete, and use of recycled materials in concrete. |
Karl Frank |
Bridges; civil engineering; fracture analysis or mechanics; structural steel; materials fatigue; Welding; non-destructive inspection; bolted connections; composite plate girders. |
Richard Furlong |
Civil engineering; composite materials; concrete structure; structural engineering; composite steel and concrete columns; design aids and inelastic behavior analysis; reinforced concrete columns. |
G. Edward Gibson, Jr. |
Electronic data interchange, computer integrated construction, and pre-project planning. |
Robert Hebner |
Electricity generation and storage; space power; electric energy; standards; technology policy; university-industry-government collaboration in technology; technology and economic development; electric guns; hybrid electric vehicles; electric locomotives; flywheel batteries; electric generators and motors; high voltage; environment & earth science. |
Todd Helwig |
Bridges; civil engineering; fracture analysis or mechanics. |
James Jirsa |
Behavior and design of reinforced concrete structures subjected to severe loading and exposure conditions; civil engineering; concrete structure; performance of reinforced concrete systems; repair and strengthening of structures; seismic response of reinforced concrete structures. |
Maria Juenger |
Hydration chemistry of portland cement and its constituent phases, the development of microstructure in portland cement, concrete durability, blended cements, and chemical deterioration processes in concrete. |
Richard Klingner |
Civil engineering, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, reinforced concrete, masonry, fastening to concrete. |
Kara Kockelman |
Modeling of travel behavior, location choice decisions, and the connection between urban form and travel; Planning and policy-making in the context of intra-urban personal travel needs and land development; Roadway safety and geometric design. More biographical information. |
Randy Machemehl |
Transportation engineering; civil engineering; traffic engineering; transportation engineering; application of microcomputers in transportation engineering; traffic engineering; transportation planning. |
David Maidment | Surface water hydrology; environmental sciences; geographic information systems (GIS); hydrology; environmental assessment; hydrologic modeling; use of geographic information systems in hydrology |
Joseph Malina |
Bacteriology; civil engineering; environmental engineering; solid waste disposal; waste water treatment; environmental engineer; fate of bacteria and virus indi; in-situ bioremediation highway runoff; municipal and industrial wastewater treatment; treatment and management of sludges and solid wastes. |
Lance Manuel |
Wind engineering, structural reliability, dynamics and random vibration, earthquake engineering, probabilistic seismic hazard analyses. |
Ronald Matthews |
Alternative fuels, emissions, engine modeling. |
Tracy McMillan |
Urban planning; children’s travel behavior and health; non-motorized transportation planning and safety; relationship between urban planning and public health. |
James O'Connor |
Construction engineering,project management, facility forensics, contract claims analysis, constructability, value engineering, decision analysis and risk management, project work process integration & automation, innovative IT applications for project execution, industrial plant startup, schedule optimization. |
Jorge Prozzi |
Design, testing and analysis of pavement structures and materials, performance modeling, and statistical traffic loading characterization; accelerated pavement testing; pavement performance modeling; the use of applied probability and statistics in transportation-related problems. |
Kenneth H. Stokoe |
Deflection testing of pavements, performance assessment, spectral analysis, soils, flexible pavements and subgrades, non-destructive testing, resonant column/torsional shear (RCTS) equipment, dynamic soil properties, Rolling Dynamic Deflectometer (RDD) |
Travis Waller |
Modeling and large-scale optimization of transportation systems including network design, stochastic shortest path algorithms, and dynamic traffic assignment. Planning under uncertainty, transportation applications of information technology, and traffic simulation. |
C. Michael Walton |
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS); freight logistics; transportation engineering, planning, economics, and policy analysis; civil engineering; transportation engineering economics: freight logistics; transport policy and engineering analysis. |
Eric Williamson |
The dynamic response of structures to blast and earthquake loads, with particular focus on the potential for progressive collapse; models and analyses of trapezoidal box girder bridges during construction; the behavior of synthetic-fiber rope in mooring applications. |
Sharon Wood |
Noncomposite steel girder bridges, bridge monitoring systems, truck permitting procedures through finite analysis, reinforced concrete bridges. |
Bugao Xu |
New imaging technology for automated pavement surface distress inspection |
Zhanmin Zhang |
Rigid and flexible pavement performance, database design and analysis, traffic characteristics, environmental conditions, and truck configurations affecting pavement, traffic data analysis for pavement management. |
Jorge Zornberg |
Soil mechanics; soil reinforcement and improvement; environmental geotechnics; geosynthetics; numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems |