Civil Engineering & Mechanics Research
With a long history of funded research, CEAS Civil Engineering & Mechanics faculty members have received support from local and national private industry and from a wide variety of government sources at the city, county, state, and federal levels. Representative government agencies include:
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- National Science Foundation
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
- Federal Highway Administration
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- USDA Forest Services
- Illinois Clean Coal Institute
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- US Department of Defense: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
- Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council
Ongoing research in Civil Engineering & Mechanics is conducted in various CEAS laboratories. Specific laboratories and recent research titles include:
Center for By-Products Utilization
- Economical self-consolidating concrete
- Reducing shrinkage cracking of structural concrete through the use of admixtures
Computational Mechanics Laboratory
- Stress computation and fracture prediction in the Femur’s neck due to side falls: FEA investigation
- Multibody simulation of a hopping machine
- Nonlinear finite element analysis of extended shear tab steel connections
- Nonlinear FEA of precast hybrid beam-column connections subjected to cyclic loads
- Low-weight and low-stiffness cellular metal alloys for biomedical applications
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
- Receptor models for evaluation of fate and transport of organic pollutants in the aquatic environment
- MMSD stormwater monitoring program: data analysis, 2004-2005
- Mercury liberation and capture from coal-fired power plants: fly ash and activated carbon
- The response of biological components in drinking water infrastructure to biological warfare agents
- Developing an on-chip magnetic bead biosensor for real-time and remote detection of biological warfare agents
Water Resources Laboratory
- Predicting Pathogen Fate in the Great Lakes Coastal Environment
- Coherence between atmospheric teleconnections, climate and hydrologic time series
- Predicting water age in water distribution systems
- Two-fluid computational model for bubble plumes
- Empirical Studies of Release Rates of Munition Constituents from Breached Shells
- A management model to link coastal water quality and land use
- Determination of typical resilient modulus values for selected soils representative of the soils distributions of Wisconsin
- Evaluation of bridge approach settlement mitigation methods
- Investigation of vertical members to resist surficial slope instabilities
- Load and resistance factor design of deep foundations
- Finite element analysis of time-dependent increase in capacity of driven piles
- Analysis and design of dies for polymer extrusion
Structural Engineering Laboratory
- Stay cable repair and utilization
- Damage detection in structures
- Vibration control and damping
- The effect of Minnesota aggregates on rapid chloride permeability tests
- Rehabilitation techniques for concrete bridges
- Fatigue resistant and monitoring studies for high-performance steel bridges
- Decision support system for highway bridges
Center for Urban Transportation Studies
- Relationship between land use policy and highway requirements
- Statewide travel demand forecasting
- Long-range deployment strategies for intelligent transportation systems
- Impacts of accessibility, connectivity, and mode captivity on transit choice
- Strategies for improved innovation at public transit agencies