Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil Engineering faculty has expertise in a range of technical areas that includes roadway infrastructure design, materials and management, hydraulic structures, structural composites, environmental remediation, geo-environmental modeling and structural composites analysis. Funding sources include the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Recent project examples include Enhanced Short-term Hydrometeorological Forecasting, Evaluation of a System to Measure Seal Coat Technology, Enhancement of the Full Cost Transportation Model (MODECOST) and Infrastructure for a Statewide Scour and Road-Submergence Warning System.
CEE faculty works closely with the Center for Water Research http://www.utsa.edu/water/ and other faculty from the UTSA College of Sciences to carry our research under the new Doctoral program in Environmental Science and Engineering. Examples of the studies carried out under this program can be found under http://engineering.utsa.edu/CE/theses.html. Examples of reserach publications can be found below.
- Development of an Elastoviscoplastic Microstructural-Based Continuum Model to Predict Permanent Deformation in Hot Mix Asphalt
- Finite-Element Analysis of Hot Mix Asphalt Microstructure Using Effective Local Material Properties and Strain Gradient Elasticity
- Leachate Concentrations from Water Leach and Column Leach Tests on Fly Ash-Stabilized Soils
- A Wavelet Interpretation of Vehicle-Pavement Interaction
- Impact and Damage Prediction of Sandwich Beams with Flexible Core Considering Arbitrary Boundary Effects
- The Use of an Automated Nowcasting System to Forecast Flash Floods in an Urban Watershed
- Traffic Data Collection Requirements for Reliability in Pavement Design
- Design Optimation of Composite Steel Box Girder in Flexure
- Four-Day Workweek and the Construction Industry