Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Habib Dagher, TIDC Director.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, PE, ASCE President Elect
Presentation by Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, PE, ASCE’s President Elect and a Spencer J. Buchanan Chair Professor at Texas A&M University.
Novel, Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis Methods for Load Rating of Concrete Girder Bridges
Presentation by Dr. William Davids, PE, from the University of Maine. For questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Davids at william.davids@maine.edu.
Structural Health Monitoring of a Bridge Using Fiber Optic Sensing Textile
Presentation by Andres M. BiondiVaccariello, a Graduate Student from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. For questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Xingwei Wang at Xingwei_wang@uml.edu.
Bridge-Stream Network Assessments to Identify Structural & Hydraulic Parameters for Flood Mitigation
Presentation by Rachel Seigel, a graduate student from the University of Vermont. For questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Mandar Dewoolkar at mdewoolk@uvm.edu.
Large Scale 3D Printed Thermoplastic Composite Forms for Precast Concrete Structures
Presentation by Sunil Bhandari, a PhD candidate from the University of Maine. For questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Roberto Lopez-Anido at rla@maine.edu.
Study of Prestressed Concrete Crossties Using High-Performance Computing
Presentation by Moochul Shin, an associate professor from Western New England University. For questions about the presentation, please contact Associate Professor Moochul Shin at moolchul.shin@wne.edu
Electromagnetic Detection and Identification of Concrete Cracking in Highway Bridges
Presentation by Tzuyang Yu, an associate professor from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Associate Professor Tzuyang Yu at Tzuyang_Yu@UML.edu
Durability Evaluation of Carbon Fiber Composite Strands in Highway Bridges
Presentation by Braedon Kohler, a master student from the University of Maine. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Roberto Lopez-Anido at rla@maine.edu.
Optical-Based Structural Health Monitoring of Truss Bridges
Presentation by Celso Do Cabo, a PhD student from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Assistant Professor Zhu Mao at Zhu_Mao@uml.edu
Preliminary Material Testing and Analysis of Two Old Railroad Steel Bridges
Presentation by Celso De Oliviera, a PhD student from the University of Connecticut. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Ramesh B. Malla at Ramesh.malla@UCONN.edu
Avalanches during Flexure of Early-age Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams
Presentation by Ting Tan, and associate professor at the University of Vermont. For more question about the presentation, please contact Ting Tan at Ting.Tan@uvm.edu
Lateral Spreading and Stability of Embankments supported on Unreinforced Fractured Columns over Soft Soils
Presentation by Dr. Aaron Gallant, an assistant professor from the University of Maine. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Aaron Gallant at aaron.gallant@maine.edu.
The Effect of Different Conditions at the Two Abutments on the Behavior of Skew Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs) under Thermal Loading
Presentation by Susan Faraji, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Susan Faraji at susan_faraji@uml.edu.
Alternative Cementitious Materials (ACMs) for Durable and Sustainable Transportation Infrastructures
Presentation by Dr. Hosain Haddad Kolour, from the University of Maine. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Professor Eric N. Landis at landis@umaine.edu.
Deterministic Optimization for Damage Identification Using Dividing Rectangles Algorithm
Presentation by Yang Zhang, a Ph.D. student from the University of Connecticut. For more questions about the presentation, please contact Dr. Jiong Tang at joing.tang@uconn.edu.