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Monitoring & Assessment for Enhanced LifeThrust Area 1 Research Project List
New Materials for Longevity and ConstructabilityThrust Area 2 Research Project List
New Systems for Longevity and ConstructabilityThrust Area 3 Research Project List
Connectivity for Enhanced Asset & Performance ManagementThrust Area 4 Research Project List

Researchers

Projects

120

Partners

200+

Student Researchers

From Innovation to Implementation

FULL TIDC PROJECT LIST HERE

The TIDC Project Search houses information about all of TIDC’s completed and ongoing projects. Click above to view all of TIDC’s research. You can also see TIDC projects by Thrust Area using the lefthand menu.

TIDC Final Reports for Completed Projects

Project 1.1: Field Live-Load Testing and Advanced Analysis of Concrete T-Beam Bridges to Extend Service Life

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Project 1.2: Condition/Health Monitoring of Railroad Bridges for Structural Safety, Integrity, and Durability

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Project 1.6: Progressive fault identification and prognosis of railway tracks based on intelligent inference

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Project 1.8: Enhancing Performance of Intelligent Compaction

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Project 2.5: Development and Testing of High / Ultra-High Early Strength Concrete for durable Bridge Components and Connections

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Project 3.4: Testing, Monitoring, and Analysis of FRP Girder Bridge with Concrete Deck

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Project 3.10: Assessment and optimization of double CT bridge girder sections with
longitudinal precast decks

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Project 3.14: FRP-Concrete Hybrid Composite Girder Systems: Web Shear Strength and Design Guide Development

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Project 3.16: CT Bridge Girder Sections with Precast Decks and FRP Girder-Deck Shear Connectors

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Project 3.17: Assessment of CT Girder Load Distribution and Web Buckling through FieldLoad Testing and Finite-Element Analysis

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Project 4.2: Future-Proof Transportation Infrastructure through Proactive, Intelligent, and Public-involved Planning and Management

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Project 4.3: Towards Quantitative Cybersecurity Risk Assessment in Transportation Infrastructure

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Project 4.4: Flood Analysis of Bridge-Stream Interactions Using Two-Dimensional Models

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Project 4.10: Road Salt Impact Assessment: Safety Study of Lane Departure Crashes in Maine

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Project 4.11: Safety Assessment of New England Roadways During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Project C5.2018: Leveraging High Resolution LiDAR and Stream Geomorphic Assessment Datasets to Expand Regional Hydraulic Geometry Curves for Vermont

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Project C9.2019: A new method of determining payment for in-place concrete with double-bounded compressive strength pay factors

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TIDC submits a Semi-Annual Progress Report to the U.S. Department of Transportation each year on April 30th and October 30th. The purpose of the Report is to inform them of the progress toward our research goals and the accomplishments of the research funded under the UTC grant.

Advanced Structures & Composites Center

The Advanced Structures and Composites Center includes fully equipped, integrated laboratories to develop and test durable, lightweight, corrosion-resistant material solutions for a wide variety of industries. We offer expertise in large-scale and coupon-level instrumentation and testing, composites manufacturing, and analysis, and finite element analysis. Click here for more information.

The mission of the Alfond Manufacturing Lab is to increase the market prevalence of structural thermoplastics through the demonstration of automated, advanced manufacturing techniques. This lab was developed to facilitate research in long-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites.

University of Connecticut College of Engineering

Additionally, four of the nodes have been designated GPU nodes. Each of these nodes contains 8 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs. The nodes are configured to use an LSF job scheduler and fiber optic Infiniband networking. 16 TB of RAID 6 protected storage is made available to all nodes via NFS. More information on BECAT can be found at https://becat.uconn.edu/

Connecticut Transportation Institute

CTI is a research center within the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut and is very active in its mission to conduct transportation-related research, outreach, and technology transfer. CTI personnel and affiliated faculty members have continued to serve on national, regional, and state committees that have increased CTI’s prominence at all levels. It’s emerged as a national leader in crash data analysis as CTI houses Connecticut’s vehicle crash data records management. The Connecticut Crash Data Repository project at CTI is providing researchers, town engineers, planners, and the public with unprecedented access to crash data for transportation safety analysis. The success of this project resulted in Conn DOT expanding the funding of the Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center at CTI. More information about CTI can be found at http://www.cti.uconn.edu/.

In 1995, the Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory (CAP Lab) was established by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (Department) and the University of Connecticut (UConn). The CAP Lab is an AMRL-Certified Materials Testing Facility that provides guidance on hot mix asphalt material design for the HMA industry, education and training services on HMA subjects for engineers, technicians and inspectors, and technical assistance on paving mix acceptance and field construction, and research on HMA problems.

The Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center) at the University of Connecticut is Connecticut’s Local Technical Assistance Program, one of the 58 centers in the United States. Our Center provides education and technical assistance to Connecticut’s Transportation and Public Safety Community members on transportation-related issues. The T2 Center serves Connecticut’s Transportation and Public Safety Community members, including municipal public works directors, street and road maintenance superintendents and staff, city and town engineers, Connecticut Department of Transportation employees, transportation planners, and law enforcement professionals serving as legal traffic authorities.

The Connecticut Crash Data Repository (CTCDR) is a web tool designed to provide access to select crash information collected by state and local police. This data repository enables users to query, analyze and print/export the data for research and informational purposes. The CTCDR is comprised of crash data from two separate sources; The Department of Public Safety (DPS) and The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT). The purpose of the CTCDR is to provide members of the traffic-safety community with timely, accurate, complete and uniform crash data. The CTCDR allows for complex queries of both datasets such as, by date, route, route class, collision type, injury severity, etc. For further analysis, this data can be summarized by user-defined categories to help identify trends or patterns in the crash data.

University of Massachusetts Lowell

The facilities and resources to perform research within the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s (CEE) Electromagnetic Sensing Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering’s (ME) Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s (ECE) Laboratory of Optics, and Department of Plastic Engineering’s (PE) Core Research Facilities.

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island has a variety of laboratory, field, and computational facilities that are available to support a wide range of transportation research projects. The laboratory facilities include test equipment that can be used to characterize the physical and mechanical properties of civil engineering materials including concrete, asphalt, and soil. Field equipment includes a trailer mounted Cone Penetration Test (CPT) used for subsurface investigations. Dedicated computers and specialized software are available for numerical modeling and simulation. There are other facilities outside the University that may also be available for use through specific collaborative projects with RIDOT and/or industry. This includes, for example, RIDOTs vehicle-mounted Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system.

University of Vermont

All PIs have laboratory spaces (geotechnical, structural, hydraulics, materials, surveying, spatial analysis, imaging labs), access to machine shops and two technicians, and an Advanced Computing Center.

Fabrication Facilities

An extensive machine shop and electronics shops are available within the College of Engineering & Mathematics at the University of Vermont, which can be used by researchers with proper training. The shops currently have full-time technicians who also help with the fabrication of instructional items. Additionally, the College maintains the UVM FabLab for rapid prototyping of designs using 3-D printing, laser cutting, and laser engraving. These facilities are available to fabricate devices for some of the experiments for the proposed research and educational activities.