Browsing Reports and Research Briefs by Title
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Research Brief: A Reaction-Diffusion Model to Determine Mesoscale Patterns in Cement Paste
(2018-08)Strength and toughness, two important aspects of the durability of concrete structures, are dramatically influenced by the material’s nanotexture, but the question of how the building blocks of cement paste organize ... -
Research Brief: Assessing Road Quality Using Crowdsourced Smartphone Measurements
(2020-07)As the demands on the nation’s roads increase, so too have road maintenance costs. To meet these challenges, agencies must vigilantly monitor road surface quality to properly apportion resources. Traditional methods of ... -
Research Brief: Community-Informed Building-Scale Resilience Assessment
(2020-02)It is widely known that natural hazards, like hurricanes, cause tremendous levels of damage and that hazard mitigation can significantly curb natural hazard-induced losses. However, necessary investments are still needed ... -
Research Brief: Concrete building design optimization for reduced life cycle costs and environmental impacts
(2018-04)Decisions made at early stages of the building design process can have a large influence on the environmental performance and financial costs of a building. One of the best ways to discover preferable designs is to analyze ... -
Research Brief: Generating Component-level Building-specific Fragility Curves
(2020-11)One of the most essential tools for representing the vulnerability of a structure is the fragility curve. By capturing the probability of damage at a given load level, fragility curves provide a way to express how a ... -
Research Brief: Implications of energy code evolution on energy performance of multi-family residential buildings in the US
(2018-03)The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which is created by the International Code Council (ICC), standardizes expectations for the design and construction of buildings with regards to energy use and conservation ... -
Research Brief: Investigating the Mechanisms of ASR Using Atomistic Methods
(2020-05)With 20% of highway pavements in the U.S. in poor condition, mitigating pavement failure has become increasingly important. However, the mechanisms of the alkali-silica-reaction (ASR), a leading cause of damage in concrete ... -
Research Brief: Meeting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets in the Building Sector
(2019-07)As the threat of climate change grows, lowering the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of high emitting sectors of the economy has become critical. The buildings sector is particularly significant, consuming up to 40% of total ... -
Research Brief: Simulating the Formation of ASR Gels
(2019-04)Alkali-silica-reaction (ASR) is a significant cause of premature concrete deterioration. Although it has received much research attention, an essential question still remains—how does a soft gel, as is formed by this ... -
Research Brief: The Role of Pavements in Meeting GHG Reduction Targets
(2019-08)To meet the targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions set by cities and states, several solutions have been proposed including renewable energy production, subsidies for electric vehicles, and carbon taxes. ... -
Research Brief: Validation of Molecular Dynamics-Based Structural Damage
(2019-03)Windstorms currently generate $28 billion in average annual damage and this figure is projected to potentially rise to $38 billion by 2075. Traditional engineering approaches that analyze the resilience of structures fail ...
