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.
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.
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.
External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
Tajik, N., Elhami-Khorasani, N. Ranade, R., Tessari, A. (2025). "Experimental study of post-fire bond strength between steel reinforcing bars and concrete using beam-end specimens." Engineering Structures, Vol 336: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2025.120450.
Szasdi-Bardales, F., Shamsaei, K., Juliano, T.W., Kosovic, B., Ebrahimian, H., Elhami-Khorasani, N. (2025). "An offline coupling of fire spread models to simulate the 2021 Marshall Fire." International Journal of Wildland Fire, Vol 34, WF24027.
Qureshi, R.K., Elhami-Khorasani, N., Sivaselvan, M., Weinreber, S. (2024). "Developing real-time hybrid simulation to capture column buckling in a steel frame under fire." Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol 222, pp. 108950.
Szasdi-Bardales, F., Shamsaei, K., Lareau, N., Juliano, T.W., Kosovic, B., Ebrahimian, H., Elhami-Khorasani, N. (2024). "Integrating dynamic wildland fire position input with a community fire spread simulation: a case study of the 2018 Camp Fire." Fire Safety Journal, Vol 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.104076.
Covi, P., Tondini, N., Sarreshtehdari, A., Elhami-Khorasani, N. (2024). "Fire following earthquake fragility functions for protected steel braced frames." Fire Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-023-01526-0
Hua, N., Elhami Khorasani, N., Tessari, A., Ranade, R. (2022). “Experimental study of fire damage to reinforced concrete tunnel slabs,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol 127, pp. 103504.
Sarreshtehdari, A., Elhami-Khorasani, N. (2022). "Post-earthquake emergency response time to locations of fire ignitions," Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol 26(7), pp. 3389-3416. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2020.1802369
Masoudvaziri, N., Szasdi Bardales, F.J., Keskinn, O.K., Sarreshtehdari, A., Sun., K., Elhami-Khorasani, N. (2021). "Streamlined wildland-urban interface fire tracing (SWUIFT): modeling wildfire spread in communities," Environmental Modeling and Software, Vol 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105097
Qureshi, R., Ni, S., Elhami-Khorasani, N., Van Coile, R., Hopkin, D., Gernay, T. (2020). "Probabilistic models for temperature dependent strength of steel and concrete." ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol 146(6).
Elhami-Khorasani, N., Gernay, T., Fang, C. (2019). "Parametric study for performance-based fire design of US prototype composite floor systems." ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol 145(5).
Research in environmental engineering seeks to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence the health of our environment and to pursue innovative solutions for its protection. Researchers in this area also focus on engineering sustainability.
Research in geosystems engineering addresses computational geomechanics, deep foundations, ground improvement, seismic response of soils, liquefaction, and retrofit of foundations, dams, slopes, and retaining walls.
Researchers in the structural engineering, mechanics and materials group enhance community resiliency to earthquakes, develop design guidelines for buildings and other structures, and conduct vital research in various emerging areas such as wind, fire and materials engineering.
Research in transportation systems engineering focuses on improving the efficiency, safety, sustainability, and resiliency of surface transportation systems.