Sustainable Infrastructure Materials

This Sustainable Infrastructure Materials subdiscipline seeks to provide a platform for future sustainable engineering of civil infrastructure systems, linking the material microstructural tailoring to the full-scale field performance of civil infrastructure. This program covers the development, application, characterization, recycling, remediation, disposal, modeling, and monitoring of engineering materials as part of infrastructure design, development, and management. It will emphasize fundamental understanding of materials and property relationships, knowledge-guided microstructural development and its impact on long-term performance, durability, and sustainability of civil engineering materials, as well as rehabilitation, assessment, and repair of infrastructure. Major research areas include: Multiphysics coupled degradation, multiscale control for improved microstructure, predictive modeling and performance-based design, high-performance infrastructure materials, and materials at high-strain rates and extreme events for hazard resilience.

Sustainable Infrastructure and Materials Engineering MS Curriculum