Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Current research projects seek solutions to both safety and cost-related problems and have been the basis for setting industry standards and design criteria.

Specifically, their research focuses on the following areas, with the appropriate faculty member listed in parentheses:

• Bridges (Abendroth, Fanous, Greimann, Klaiber, Sritharan, Wipf)
• Composite Structures (Porter, Klaiber, Wipf)
• Condition Assessment (Greimann, Wipf)
• Buildings (Porter, Sritharan)
• Seismic Design (Sritharan)
• Masonry (Porter)
• Timber (Wipf)
• Transmission Towers (Fanous, Wipf)

• Abendroth, Robert, Associate Professor
• Bolluyt, James, Assistant Professor
• Fanous, F.S., Professor
• Greimann, Lowell, Emeritus Professor
• Klaiber, Wayne, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
• Phares, Brent, Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Porter, Max, Professor
• Rouse, Matt, Assistant Professor
• Sritharan, Sivalingam, Associate Professor
• Wipf, Terry, Division Leader and Professor
• Wood, Doug, Manager, Structures Lab

• Development of LRFD Design Procedures for Bridge Piles in Iowa, TR-573
• Evaluation of the 24th Street Bridge Interstate 80/29, Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Modified Sheet Pile Abutments for Low Volume Bridges (TR-568)
• Bridge Construction Practices Using Incremental Launching, NCHRP Project 20-07/Task 229
• Development of a Device for Analysis of Portland Cement Concrete and Composite Pavements