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    UB part of $2.3 million project to make solar energy production more resilient
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    External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
  • Sharing the potential of game engines to enhance transportation
    10/16/23
    At the 2023 Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) World 2023 Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, ISTL Director Kevin Hulme, PhD, and his team of transportation engineering researchers presented their findings in the application of different video game engine simulations to enhance transportation research.
  • A student distributes wastewater from a needle into a test tube while a student observes behind the first student. Both students are dressed in lab coats, safety goggles, gloves and masks.
    COVID-19 wastewater surveillance
    1/2/24
    External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
  • A concrete bridge column being tested in a large-scale laboratory.
    UB joins Tier 1 University Transportation Center to enhance nation’s transportation infrastructure
    10/16/23
    External Collaborators: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, Louisiana State University, University of Texas San Antonio
  • Road under construction.
    Accelerating the use of integrated incident management system (IIMS) for traffic incident data collection and management
    7/18/22
    Traffic incidents have significant negative impacts on the safety and efficiency of overall transportation system performance. The transportation community has consistently strive to improve the transportation incident management process. This project demonstrates the ability of the NYSDOT, GDIT and IIMS to improve traffic incident management.
  • Nuclear reactor in a science institute indoors.
    Integrating seismic protection systems into nuclear power plants
    10/16/23
    All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
  • Three researchers.
    What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by coastal flooding?
    10/16/23
    External Collaborators: National Science Foundation, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Western Washington University
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Bridge Engineering

Peace Bridge.

Research in bridge engineering drives the use of new construction methods, components and materials. Current areas of investigation are Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) in seismic regions using prefabricated segmental construction, multiple-hazard mitigation, and response modification devices. MS students work with a mentor to tackle real engineering assignments such as computing the live load capacity of a unique bridge or designing a repair of a bridge flagged for structural deficiency.

Faculty

  • Michel Bruneau
  • Michael C. Constantinou
  • Negar Elhami Khorasani
  • Xiao Liang
  • Pinar Okumus
  • Ravi Ranade
  • Kallol Sett
  • M.V. Sivaselvan
  • Andreas Stavridis
  • Anthony Tessari
  • Sabanayagam Thevanayagam
  • Andrew S. Whittaker
  • Teng Wu

Emeritus Faculty

  • George C. Lee

Centers and Labs

  • Institute of Bridge Engineering
  • MCEER

Featured Research Projects

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Research Highlights

previous next
  • Three researchers.
    What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by coastal flooding?
    10/16/23
    External Collaborators: National Science Foundation, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Western Washington University
  • Road under construction.
    Accelerating the use of integrated incident management system (IIMS) for traffic incident data collection and management
    7/18/22
    Traffic incidents have significant negative impacts on the safety and efficiency of overall transportation system performance. The transportation community has consistently strive to improve the transportation incident management process. This project demonstrates the ability of the NYSDOT, GDIT and IIMS to improve traffic incident management.
  • Nuclear reactor in a science institute indoors.
    Integrating seismic protection systems into nuclear power plants
    10/16/23
    All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
  • A man in a hardhat posing inside a narrow chamber.
    UB part of $2.3 million project to make solar energy production more resilient
    10/16/23
    External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
  • A concrete bridge column being tested in a large-scale laboratory.
    UB joins Tier 1 University Transportation Center to enhance nation’s transportation infrastructure
    10/16/23
    External Collaborators: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, Louisiana State University, University of Texas San Antonio
  • Sharing the potential of game engines to enhance transportation
    10/16/23
    At the 2023 Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) World 2023 Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, ISTL Director Kevin Hulme, PhD, and his team of transportation engineering researchers presented their findings in the application of different video game engine simulations to enhance transportation research.
  • A student distributes wastewater from a needle into a test tube while a student observes behind the first student. Both students are dressed in lab coats, safety goggles, gloves and masks.
    COVID-19 wastewater surveillance
    1/2/24
    External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences

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