EXTREME: Research Topics and Advisors
GAANN Fellows will focus on the following research topics: strengthening/repair of civil infrastructure for extreme loadings; nondestructive evaluation of civil infrastructure; structural health monitoring; computational modeling of civil infrastructure under multi-hazard loading; and advanced materials for civil infrastructure.
The following UIC civil, materials, and environmental engineering faculty members are dedicated to supporting GAANN EXTREME doctoral students throughout their academic program:
Lesley Sneed Heading link
GAANN Project Director
Professor and Director, High Bay Structures Laboratory
Research interests:
- Reinforced and prestressed concrete structural members and systems
- Structural models and experimental methods
- Innovative methods of repair and strengthening of structures subjected to seismic loading or other extreme hazards
- Evaluation of existing structures
- Design codes for structural concrete
Farhad Ansari Heading link
Distinguished Professor and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering
Research interests:
- Structural health monitoring of bridges and buildings
- Post-collapse analysis of structures
- Seismic monitoring of structures
- Fiber optic sensor instrumentation of large structures including cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges
- Data-centric, machine-learning-based condition assessment of high-rise buildings and bridges
- Nondestructive testing of concrete structures with acoustic and optical methods
- Experimental fracture mechanics by laser speckle metrology
Didem Ozevin Heading link
Professor
Research interests:
- Integrating structural design and damage-detection methods
- Structural health monitoring using acoustic methods, especially for bridges and pipelines
- Materials characterization using linear and nonlinear ultrasonics
- Structural inspection using drones
- Manipulating wave propagation in solids using metamaterials
- MEMS acoustic sensors
Craig Foster Heading link
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Evolving discontinuity methods for capturing fracture, shear banding, and other forms of localized deformation
- Coupled-physics problems, such as couple mechanics and fluid flow in soil biological tissues, and therm-hydro-mechanics of geothermal heat pumps
- Computational plasticity, damage and constitutive modeling for geomaterials and soft tissues
- Finite elements and other computational techniques
- Structural behavior of earthen structural material such as rammed earth and stabilized soil block
- Rail geotechnics
Matt Daly Heading link
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Deformation behavior of advanced materials
- Mechanics of nanostructured and 2D materials
- In situ characterization techniques
- Atomistic modeling of deformation processes
- Physical metallurgy