External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
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: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
Sarreshtehdari, A., Elhami Khorasani, N. (2020). “Emergency response time for post-earthquake fires,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, in press.
Hua, N, Tessari, A., Elhami Khorasani, N. (2020). “Quantifying uncertainties in the temperature-time evolution of railway tunnel fires,” Fire Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01007-8.
Ross, B., Yang, C, Kleiss, C., Okumus, P., Elhami Khorasani, N. (2020). “Tessellated structural-architectural systems: a concept for efficient construction, repair, and disassembly,” ASCEJournal of Architectural Engineering, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000418.
Jovanovic, B., Van Coile, R., Hopkin, D., Elhami Khorasani, N., Lange, D., Gernay, T. (2020). “Review of current practice in probabilistic structural fire engineering – permanent and live load modelling.” Fire Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01005-w.
Elhami Khorasani, N., Salado Castillo, J.G., Gernay, T. (2020). “A digitized fuel load surveying methodology using machine vision,” Fire Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-00989-9.
Elhami Khorasani, N., Salado Castillo, J.G., Saula, E., Josephs, T., Nurlybekova, G., Gernay, T. (2020). “Application of a digitized fuel load surveying methodology to office buildings,” Fire Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-00990-2.
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.” ASCEJournal of Structural Engineering, 146(6).
Sarreshtehdari, A., Elhami Khorasani, N., Coar, M. (2020). “A stream-lined approach for evaluating post-earthquake performance of electric networks.” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 5(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2018.1542211.
Qureshi, R., Elhami Khorasani, N., Gernay, T. (2019). “Examining the need for active boundary conditions in structural fire testing.” Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, DOI: 10.1108/JSFE-12-2018-0042.
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, 145(5).
Gernay, T., Elhami Khorasani, N., Garlock, M.E.M. (2018). “Fire fragility functions for steel frame buildings: Sensitivity analysis and reliability framework.” Fire Technology, 55:1175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-018-0764-5
Elhami Khorasani, N., Gernay, T., Garlock, M.E.M. (2017). “Data-driven probabilistic post-earthquake fire ignition model for a community.” Fire Safety Journal, 94:33-44.
Gernay, T., Elhami Khorasani, N., Garlock, M.E.M. (2016). “Fire fragility curves for steel buildings in a community context: a methodology.” Engineering Structures. 113: 259-276.
Elhami Khorasani, N., Garlock, M.E.M., Quiel, S.E. (2015). “Modeling steel structures in OpenSees: enhancements for fire and multi-hazard probabilistic analysis.” Journal of Computers and Structures, 157: 218-231.
Elhami Khorasani N., Garlock M.E.M., Gardoni P. (2014). “Fire load: survey data, recent standards, and probabilistic models for office buildings.” Engineering Structures, Elsevier, 58: 152-165.
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.