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| Project Leader: | Layal Maddah Lsmaddah@gmail.com Civil Engineering |
| Faculty Mentor: | Jean-Louis Briaud, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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TBA |
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Team Size:
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3 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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This is an opportunity for students from different disciplines who want to apply their knowledge to add value to the engineering industry and get practical experience. The goal is to apply cutting edge technologies to optimize processing and presentation of data. This leads to the production of consistently high-quality results that would require minimum reporting and editing effort. Simply said, what you will be working with is the future of the civil engineering industry. What you will learn is a function of how much you are passionate to learn.
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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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he goal of this project to provide guidelines for the design of barrier-wall systems subject to vehicle crash. This would enhance 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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