Construction Engineering and Management
Research Topics
Graduate students and faculty perform experimental and analytical
research related to a broad range of construction engineering and
management problems. This research has been supported by a variety of
agencies and companies such as the National Science Foundation, USDOT
Federal Highway Administration, North Carolina Department of
Transportation, US Department of Energy, National Highway Institute,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Institute for
Transportation Research and Education, Construction Industry
Institute, Burke Company, Saudi Binladin Group, NC OSHA, NC Board of
Science and Technology, Carolinas AGC, NC Licensing Board for General
Contractors, Transportation Materials Research Center, and numerous
individual contractors. A sample of research projects includes:
- Feature-Based Automated Process Planning
- Safe Crane Operation Through Intelligent Control
- Analysis of Bridge Inspection Data
- Bridge Maintenance Management
- Construction Management Training
- Construction Cracking in Concrete Bridge Decks
- Highway Construction Contract Procedures
- Engineers Estimating Procedures
- Equity Transfer in Family-Owned Construction Firms
- Strategic Construction Market Analysis
- Trenching Excavation Safety
- Trenching Excavation Training
- Robotic Excavation System
- Recycling of Lead-Contaminated Blasting Sand
- Productivity of a Paint Removal System
- Robotic Bridge Paint Removal
- Robotic Masonry Construction System
- Telerobotic Installation of Pavement Markers
- Automated Positioning and Bending of Rebar
- Formwork Pressures for Special Concretes
- Relational Database for Industrialized Building Construction
- Linear Scheduling Method for Construction
- Incremental Benefit-Cost Analysis of Bridge Improvement
- Alternatives
- Concrete Pressures in Tall Wallforms
- Maturity Optimized Reshoring Analysis
- Optimizing System-Level Bridge Management Decisions
- Mechanical Properties of High Performance Concrete
- Risk Assessment in Ready-Mixed Concrete Construction
- Permeability of Lightweight Bridge Deck Concrete
- Alkali-Silica Reactivity in Bridge Structures
- High-Strength Lightweight Concrete Pavements
- Ultra High Early Strength Cement
- Simulation Based CPM Scheduling
- Network Based Computer Model for Estimating Progress
- Billings Based on Milestones
- Wind Forces on Temporary Structures
- Temporary Lateral Support Systems for Masonry Walls
- Building Maintenance Management System
- Wall Formwork Optimization
- Emerging Technologies for Steel and Concrete Construction
- Durability of Precast Concrete
- Durability of Concrete with Manufactured Sand
- Choride Penetration of High Performance Concrete
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