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| Project Leader: | Layal Maddah Lsmaddah@tamu.edu Civil Engineering |
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Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, Ph.D.
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Meeting Times:
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TBD
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Team Size:
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7 (Team Full)
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Special Opportunities:
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This is an opportunity for students interested in finite element modeling. The goal is to create a practical understanding of finite-element modeling through documenting your learning experience. This would contribute in activation of knowledge-sharing endeavor that is essential to boost productivity in projects that involve finite element modeling. This also equips the students with scarce skills that are essential to solve complex engineering problems. Just like any other experience, it is what you make of it. If you decide to excel, you will have all the support that you need throughout and beyond this program.
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Team Needs:
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Preferred hard skills (at least one): Matlab Skills (programming, automation, compiling)/ Graphic and PowerPoint (Prezi) Skills/ Video Edition/ (Advanced) Excel/ Web Design Soft skills (as much as possible! ):creativity, reliability, good communication skills, being fun to work with, an interest in changing the world!
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Description:
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The goal of this project is to provide guidelines for the design of barrier-wall systems subject to vehicle crash. This improves road-side safety and redirect errant vehicles back into the highway. The walls studied are mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls, made of inter-layers of compacted soil and reinforcement strips. Look around while you are driving (BE CAREFUL!!), and you will see that these systems are heavily adopted in our transportation systems at bridge approaches (Yes, with the cute-looking paneled walls). The project includes full-scale crash tests and “fancy” simulations of these crash tests using a finite element software (LS-DYNA).
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