Research Activities
- Structural health monitoring and identification with novel sensing, analysis, and predictive analysis approaches
- Non-destructive evaluation technologies
- Advanced modeling and analysis, multiple hazard assessment
- Reliability and probabilistic assessment
- Novel and nanotech-based materials for civil infrastructure
- Material-, component-, and large-scale testing
- Life-cycle assessment, life-cycle cost, decision making criteria
- Sustainable and green structures
- Statistical signal processing. Signal and information processing, wireless communications
- Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analysis and Data Processing
- Disaster resiliency including vulnerabilities of civil infrastructure systems, the importance of asset mapping, and the differences between rural and urban locations.
- Employing a variety of statistical techniques and applying these to disasters in the United States and worldwide
- Public management and policy, community planning and development, and, on the individual level, the ways in which culture, socio-economic status, and social networks contribute to resiliency.
Application Areas
CITRS group is interested in all civil infrastructure systems and components such as:
- bridges, buildings, highways
- geo structures, pavements, roads
- stadiums, convention centers
- ports, dams, tunnels, lifelines
