Funded Research Project

• Project Title: Strong wind vulnerability and recovery of telecom towers and control offices

Funding Agency: Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA)

Investigators: Paolo Bocchini (PI), Keivan Rokneddin (co-PI), Wenjuan Sun (co-PI)

Amount Provided:

Start Date: January 1, 2019

End Date: June 30, 2020

• Project Title: Multiscale mechanical modeling of microstructural failures in concrete tunnel lining

Funding Agency: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China | Award: 310821151114

Investigator: Wenjuan Sun (PI)

Amount Provided: $4,500

Start Date: January 1, 2015

End Date: December 31, 2016

Major Contributor to Research Projects

• Paolo Bocchini (PI), Brian D. Davison (Co-PI), Alberto Lamadrid (Co-PI), Richard Sause (Co-PI), and Lawrence Snyder (Co-PI). CRISP Type 2/ Collaborative Research: Probabilistic Resilience Assessment of Interdependent Systems (PRAISys), National Science Foundation (NSF), #1541177, 09/2015-08/2019.
• Cristian Druta (Co-PI), Linbing Wang (Co-PI), Harikrishnan Nair (Co-PI), and D. Stephen Lane (Co-PI). The Influence of Aggregate Grading and Morphology on the Performance of Small-Size Stone-Matrix Asphalt (SMA) Mixtures, Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC), #101905, 01/2013-05/2017.
• Linbing Wang (PI), and William Goddard III (Co-PI). Mechanical and Structural Nanoscale Modeling, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), #DTFH61-09-R-00019, 07/2010-03/2015.
• Linbing Wang (PI), Anbo Wang (Co-PI), Kristy Cooper (Co-PI), and Erol Tutumluer (Co-PI). Application of LADAR in the Analysis of Aggregate Characteristics, National Cooperation Highway Research Program (NCHRP), #4-34, 03/2006-02/2011.