Completed and active grants

Please find below a complete list of active and past internal and external grants. For a detail of each grant please either contact me via e-mail or look at my full CV (link from the Home Page)

Role Title Amount Sponsor
PI Continued Investigation of Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves for Rail Buckling Prevention $68,415 Federal Railroad Administration
PI COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Highly nonlinear transducer arrays for structural health monitoring $239,971 National Science Foundation
Co-PI Corrosion Assessment of Tubular Steel Poles $18,093 CEATI
PI Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves for Rail Buckling Prevention $72,586 Federal Railroad Administration
Co-PI Indirect Bridge Health Monitoring Using Moving Vehicles $57,080 National Science Foundation
PI Can a Sound Bullet Be a Formidable Energy Harvester? $54,275 University of Pittsburgh's Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
PI Inspection of Well-Pipes Used in Unconventional Gas Sites $40,000 University of Pittsburgh's Center for Energy seed grant
PI A novel noninvasive methodology for the assessment of dental implants stability $25,000 University of Pittsburgh - Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Engineering to Clinical Collaborative Research Pilot Program
PI Hazard Mitigation of Water Mains by Means of Immersed Active/Passive Inspection Systems $300,000 National Science Foundation
Co-PI New Structural Materials for Transmission Lines $10,010 CEATI
Co-PI CCLI Type 1: Integrating Sustainability into the Civil Engineering Curriculum Through Three Courses $199,982 National Science Foundation
PI Travel Grant $1,000 University of Pittsburgh - Hewlett International Faculty Committee
PI A Novel Approach for Acoustic Source Location $14,700 University of Pittsburgh - Small Grant Program
PI COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Novel NDE/SHM approach based on highly nonlinear dynamics $45,250 National Science Foundation - Supplement
PI Newton's cradle: a toy or an acoustic filter? $6,000 NSF REU supplement
PI Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves for NDT of Civil Structures $15,000 American Society for Nondestructive Testing 2009 Fellowship Award
Co-PI Enhancing Crosscutting Sustainability Education in Civil Engineering $24,569 University of Pittsburgh Innovation in Education Awards
PI COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Novel NDE/SHM approach based on highly nonlinear dynamics $220,000 National Science Foundation
PI Travel Grant $500 University of Pittsburgh UCIS Small Grant
PI Sensing Technology for Damage Assessment of Sign Supports and Cantilever Poles Structures $346,143 Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation
PI Development of Undergraduate Course CEE1370 "Nondestructive Evaluation" $8,000 American Society for Nondestructive Testing - Faculty Grant Award
PI Advanced Soil Moisture Characterization by Stress Wave Propagation $12,888 University of Pittsburgh - Small Grant Program