Projects
Sponsored and industry projects.
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Valley Metro Northwest Extension Phase II
A steel fiber reinforced concrete track slab, without reinforcing bar, designed and validated for a 1.6 mile light rail extension in Phoenix.
Phoenix, Arizona, 2019-2024
ADOT and Maricopa County UHPC Bridge Repairs
Ultra-high-performance concrete developed with ADOT that turns a six-month bridge repair into about ten days, applied at the Palo Verde Bridge and MCDOT Centennial Bridge.
Arizona, 2016-present
Precast Tunnel Lining Segments
Large-scale validation and statistical process control of fiber reinforced precast tunnel segments, including verification of synthetic fibers as a replacement for steel per ACI 533.5R.
Tempe, Arizona, 2019-present
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Jet Engine Fan Blade Containment
Characterisation and modelling of Kevlar and Zylon fabrics for engine containment structures, with the FAA and NASA.
Tempe, Arizona, 2004-2016
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High Strain Rate Behaviour of Composites
What cement composites, textiles, and polymer composites do when they are loaded far faster than a standard test.
Tempe, Arizona, 2010-2026
External Sulfate Attack
A mechanics-based damage model for the expansion and cracking that follows sulfate ingress into cement-based materials.
Tempe, Arizona, 1991-2010
Early-Age Drying and Shrinkage Cracking
Moisture loss from fresh cement paste, the shrinkage that follows, and how fibers suppress the cracking it causes.
Tempe, Arizona, 1988-2016