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UTA civil engineering professor to lead city of Arlington project evaluating manholes

Sustaining infrastructureA University of Texas at Arlington team will inspect 350 concrete manhole shafts for corrosion in the city of Arlington and develop a method to prioritize which manholes need protection from corrosion the most. The Arlington City Council approved the three-year $474,723 project that will measure the hydrogen sulfide and multiple other parameters that influence manhole corrosion. Each manhole is four to five feet in diameter and in Arlington can range from four to 45 feet tall. Corrosion of manhole shafts can threaten the structure integrity of sanitary sewer

UTA researcher earns TxDOT contract to use geocells to improve pavement infrastructure

Imporving infrastructureA researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to determine the benefits of using recycled materials and geocells to improve Texas highways. Anand Puppala, a professor in the Civil Engineering Department, is using a two-year, $360,000 Texas Department of Transportation interagency contract to test the performance of recycled materials and geocells in a highway-widening project in Johnson County, Texas. This project will help TxDOT’s Fort Worth District determine if the geocell concept can be used as an additional tool to provide an effective

UTA researchers earn TxDOT contract to use unmanned aerial systems to inspect highways, railroads

Aerial inspectionResearchers at The University of Texas at Arlington will lead a collaborative effort to use unmanned aerial vehicles to inspect highways and railroads remotely and develop guidelines for how to safely complete the task. Civil Engineering Professor Anand Puppala is the primary investigator on the two-year, $770,909 Texas Department of Transportation agreement. Teams from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Texas A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute also will contribute. Puppala and post-doctoral researchers Tejo Bheemasetti and Ujwal Patil, as well as Mike McNair

UT Arlington’s new NSF center and its partnership with industry may lower costs and lessen the need for infrastructure maintenance

Building a more sustainable worldA new National Science Foundation center at The University of Texas at Arlington will determine how to best use composite materials to extend the life-cycle of civil infrastructure, resulting in less maintenance and lower costs to taxpayers. The new Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure , an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, will highlight the sustainable benefits of using composites in infrastructure construction because traditional methods of repairing roads,

Study finds climate change and extreme weather will significantly impact transportation, infrastructure across North Texas by 2100

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington finds a high likelihood that extreme storms and higher precipitation will lead to transportation disruption and widespread damage to roads, railways and airport runways in the Dallas-Fort Worth region by the end of the 21st century. The assessment found the risks to transportation infrastructure from storms are more likely to happen during the spring season. Researchers found a higher likelihood of heat-related risks for infrastructure, particularly during the summer season. Arne Winguth, associate

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