Engineering Sustainable Infrastructure Materials
- experimental characterization of material behavior
- examination of biorenewable construction materials
- assessment of alternative cementitious materials
- mechanics-based modeling of time-dependent material properties
Assessment of Life Cycle Environmental Impacts
- quantification of environmental impacts associated with:
- production of infrastructure materials
- use of infrastructure materials
- disposal, recovery, and degradation of materials
- assessment of regional and global environmental impacts associated with infrastructure material production
Developing Methods for Improved Sustainability of Structural Systems
- Use of structural system requirements to develop metrics for comparison of material alternatives and composite constituent selection
