CIVIL, CONSTRUCTION & ENVIRONMENTAL
Students and faculty of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering collaborate on research projects spanning a wide range of topics. Many of these research activities are performed within the department's three research centers/institutes: the Transportation Research Center, Water Quality Center, and Institute for Urban Environmental Risk Management. Research projects often utilize the department's many laboratory facilities, including labs dedicated to structural testing; concrete, asphalt, and soils testing; environmental processes; hydraulics; and computational modeling.
Faculty and research specializations
The faculty, their areas of expertise and samples of their project/publication titles are listed below. Students are strongly encouraged to make direct contact with individual faculty to discuss possible collaboration in a field of mutual interest.
Dr. Clifford J. Crandall, P.E. — Water and wastewater treatment; wastewater collection systems; water distribution systems; hydraulics; hydrology.
- Waste Lead Oxide Treatment of Lead Acid Battery Manufacturing Wastewater
- Sodium in Wisconsin Water Supplies
Dr. James A. Crovetti — Analysis of material properties using nondestructive test data; mechanistic pavement design incorporating nonlinear material properties and seasonal effects; laboratory modeling of pavement systems; measurement of lad induced deformation behavior.
- Analysis of Load Pulse Durations for the Marquette Interchange Instrumentation Project
- Portland Cement Concrete Pavements Over Rubblized PCC — Final Report
Dr. Alex Drakopoulos — Geometric design of highways; traffic operations; accident analysis; human factors.
- Heavy Vehicle Influence Under the Microscope
- Analysis of Run-Off-Road Crashes in Relation to Roadway Features and Driver Behavior
Dr. Mark Federle, P.E. — Organizational behavior in construction engineering and management; strategic planning, information technology and its impact on construction productivity; individual behavior and leadership; virtual design and construction or building information modeling; design-build project delivery; implementing best practices on the Web.
- Design-Build Methods for the Electrical Contracting Industry
- Determining Shop Burden
Dr. Christopher M. Foley, P.E. — Linear and nonlinear structural and finite element analysis; evolutionary algorithm applications in optimized structural design; structural steel building analysis and design; performance-based design of building and bridge structures; seismic analysis and design.
- Quantifying and Enhancing Robustness in Steel Structures — Part 1 — Moment-Resisting Frames
- Performance-Based Optimization Considering Both Structural and Nonstructural Components
Dr. Stephen M. Heinrich — Microcantilever-based sensors; elasticity; solid/structural mechanics; mechanics of electronic packaging; mechanics of MEMS devices.
- An Analytical Model for Transient Deformation of Viscoelastically Coated Beams: Applications to Static-Mode Microcantilever Chemical Sensors
- Deflection of a Viscoelastic Cantilever under a Uniform Surface Stress: Applications to Static-Mode Microcantilever Sensors Undergoing Adsorption
Dr. Saeed Karshenas, P.E. — System reliability analysis; construction safety; computer applications in construction.
- An Interactive Visual Approach to Construction Scheduling Education
- Visualization and Multimedia Applications in Construction Cost Estimating Education
Dr. Michael S. Switzenbaum — Environmental engineering; microbiology and biological treatment processes; wastewater engineering; solid waste management.
- Best Management Practices for Airport Deicing Stormwater
- Developing Protocols for Measuring Biosolids Stability
Dr. Sriramulu Vinnakota, P.E. — Analysis and design of steel structures; inelastic stability of metal structures; composite construction; use of supercomputers for stability of steel frames.
- Inelastic Behavior of Multi-Story Partially Restrained Steel Frame
- Second-Order Elastic-Plastic Analysis of Steel Frames — Review and Comments
Dr. Baolin Wan — Repair and retrofit structures, FRP materials, high performance concrete, prestressed concrete, numerical and experimental modeling.
- Transfer Length of Strands in Prestressed Concrete Piles
- Two-Dimensional Computer Vision to Investigate FRP-Concrete Bond Toughness
Dr. Thomas H. Wenzel, P.E. — Concrete materials; concrete analysis and design; fiber-reinforced concrete; computer-aided design.
- The Effects of Temperature on the Performance of High Strength Concrete with Fly Ash
- Effects of Spot Diamond Grinding on the Performance of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements
Dr. Daniel H. Zitomer, P.E. — Biological treatment of wastewater, contaminated soil; groundwater; hazardous waste.
- Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Aircraft Deicing Runoff and Municipal Wastewater Sludge
- High Sulfate, High COD Wastewater Treatment Using Aerated Methanogenic Fluidized Beds
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