Research Needs Statements

Research Needs Statements will be organized by AKG70 Committee Research Coordinator (CRC)  by year as they are available.

Current AkG70 CRC info and their members are in below.  

-Masoud Nobahar @lsu

Masoud Nobahar, Ph.D., E.I. is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Louisiana State University (LSU) conducting research at Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC). Dr. Nobahar has worked for more than 8 years on different Geotechnical and Structural projects. He authored and co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports on different aspects of geotechnical engineering. Dr. Nobahar co-lead multiple projects funded by Federal and State Agencies such as National Science Foundation, US-DOTs. University Transportation Center (UTC), US Army Corps of Engineering-ERDC, Mississippi DOT, and Louisiana DOTD on Geo-Infrastructure. Dr. Nobahar is a technical member and Committee Research Coordinator (CRC) of AKG-70 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Foundations of Bridges and Other Structures as well as technical member of ASCE-Geotechnical Institute (GI) Standing Committee on Earth, Dams, and Slopes. 

Focus Areas: Site Variability Analysis for Deep Foundations, Geosynthetic-Reinforced Pile-Supported Embankments for Soft Soil Conditions, Development and Implementation of Machine Learning Techniques, and Numerical Modeling.

-Nick Machairas @haleyaldrich

2022-Current

• KG70 Committee Research Coordinator (CRC) Activities, Monthly Meeting Minutes and their update presentations during Mid-Year Meetings and Annual Meetings are available HERE.

• Updated list for Statement Study Topics List such as Research Need Statement (RNS) NCHRP Problem Statemen (PS) Synthesis Study Topic is available HERE.

2016

• RNS #1: National Quality Database for Foundations Load Tests

• RNS #2: State of the Art Procedures for the Seismic Performance-Based Design of Rocking Bridge Foundations

• RNS #3: Seismically Induced Earth Pressures for LRFD Seismic Design of Retaining Structures

• RNS #4: Benchmarking Study of Software for One-dimensional, Nonlinear Seismic Site Response Analysis with Pore Water Pressure Generation

• RNS #5: Bridge Rating as a Result of Changes in Geotechnical Conditions

• RNS #6: Defining Sampling and Performance Data Parameters for Asset Management and Accelerated Design Benefits

2015

• • Load Test Database

  • 2015TRBResearch- Load Test Database.docx

Archive 2004-2008: http://www.ltrc.lsu.edu/trb_committee/research.html