Every day, state-of-the-art research is done in our impressive laboratories that allow graduate and undergraduate students to shape the future of civil engineering for years to come. Following are just a few of the research projects that are being completed by our students and professors. For a more current description of department research, see each faculty web page.

Structural | Environmental | Geotechnical | Engineering Mechanics

Below is a list of representitive research projects. Click on the title to learn more.

• Influence of Fracture Surface Roughness Characteristics on the Specific Fracture Energy of Concrete as a Function of Specimen and Aggregate Size
• Emery Material Testing Machine
• Development of Optimal Concrete Sealant Techniques

• A Vapor Extraction Teaching Module Based on AIRFLOW/SVE
• Design Analysis of Sequential Ex-Situ Remediation of Contaminated Soil
• The Impact of Brinkman's Extension to Darcy's Law in the Neighborhood of a Circular Preferential Flow Pathway
• Shared Resources Modules to Support Environmental Engineering Education
• The Evolution of Flood Risk and Erosion Damage in the Shaker Lakes / Doan Brook Urban Watershed
• Colloid Transport Through Porous Media: Effects of Flow Rate and Aggregation
• Surfactant-Induced Hydraulic Conductivity Changes in Clay Soils
• Drying and Oxidation Properties of Sediments from an Urban Lake

• THE Case Data Base
• G. P. Tschebotarioff's Selected Slides
• Video Analysis of Pavement
• The Influence Of Grain-Size Characteristics in Determining the Liquefaction Potential of a Soil Deposit by the Energy Method
• Validation of the Energy Method to Determine the Liquefaction Potential of a Soil Deposit by the Centrifuge

• Fuzzy Finite Element Methods
• Measurement and Modeling of Thermomechanical Behavior of Shape Memory Alloys with Emphasis on Thin Films
• Influence of Fracture Surface Roughness Characteristics on the Specific Fracture Energy of Concrete as a Function of Specimen and Aggregate Size
• Fracture and Fatigue of MicroElectroMechanical Systems
• Stress Chromic Polymeric Coatings for Visual Detection of Overstress Condition
• Theoretical Modeling of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems
• Transient Finite Element Analysis of Non-linear Piezoelectric Material
• Biomechanics of the Human Mandible and Mid-Face
• Development of Optimal Concrete Sealant Techniques