Rime Group/ibeam

Dr. Kamal H. Khayat, Ph.D. P.E. will hold a seminar about the Fiber-Reinforced Self-Consolidating Concrete on Friday, May 9, 2014.

You can find details in the flyer. (Click here to download the Flyer).

Description: The seminar presents results of a study on the performance of fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete (FR-SCC) as a structural repair material for concrete structures. The effect of fiber type and volume on workability, mechanical properties, and visco-elastic properties is evaluated. The structural response of composite reinforced concrete beams repaired using FR-SCC is evaluated. Test results indicated that the optimized self-consolidating repair mixtures can successfully restore the flexural capacity of the test beams, showing a great potential in repair and infrastructure rehabilitation.

Biography: Kamal H. Khayat joined the Missouri S&T faculty in August of 2011 as the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies. He is the Director of the Research in Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST), University Transportation Center with Rutgers University as one of the Consortium members of the Federally-Supported Tier-1 Center including Missouri S&T, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Miami, and Southern University.

Dr. Hani Nassif and the RIME Group received an award for the 2013 Research Showcase Implementation Award at the AASHTO Research Advisory Committee (RAC) Meeting in Baton Rouge, LA, on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. His project titled: "Elimination of Weight Restriction on Amtrak, NJ Transit, and Conrail Line", funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation was one of the sixteen projects out of more than 100 that were selected for the 2013 High Value Research Award by the AASHTO RAC. Professor Nassif and NJDOT Research Bureau Project Manager, Ed Kondrath, were formally invited to present this "Sweet Sixteen" project at the 2014 Annual TRB meeting, in Washington, D.C.

Date: on 1/28/14

The New Jersey Chapter ACI (NJACI Chapter President Dr. Hani Nassif) invited Jim Starace, P.E. , Director of Portland Cement Association (Deputy Chief Engineer & Director of Engineering, PANYNJ) and John M. Keller, P.E., PMP Supervising Engineer, NJTA to the dinner meeting on 1/28/2014.

NJACI Dinner Meeting Flyer

Jim Starace’s presentation will include the capital plan for new major program initiatives and state of good repair projects at all Port Authority facilities including airports, tunnels, bridges, port terminals and the PATH commuter rail system. In addition, the current status of work and anticipated completion dates for work at the World Trade Center will also be discussed, as well as, the impacts of Super Storm Sandy at Port Authority facilities and the mitigation efforts planned to minimize detrimental effects should a similar storm impact our region in the future.

Date: 1/12/2014 ~ 1/16/2014

Dr. Chaekuk Na and Jonathan Eagelton presented the shrinkage behavior of High Early Strength HPC and its application at the Session 299 Concrete Properties: Research on Concrete Used in Bridge Applications.

For more information, email to Dr. Chaekuk Na (cn164@rci.rutgers.edu)

Peng Lou presented the fatigue life of railway at the Session 680 Emerging Topics in Bridges and Other Structures.

Date: 1/12/2014 ~ 1/16/2014

I-BEAM laboratory researchers had a major presence at the Annual TRB Conference in Washington D.C. with 4 paper presentations overall.

List of papers

- Session 448 Nondestructive Evaluation of Bridge Decks; Field Monitoring of Rebar Debonding in Concrete Bridge Decks Under Traffic-Induced Vibrations

Date: 12/13/13

RIME Group has been selected one of 2013 Tier 1 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) as a consortium of five universities; Missouri S&T (MO), Rutgers University (NJ), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL), University of Miami (FL) and Southern University (LA).
The grant is $1,414,100 per year for two years, and requires a matching grant from non-Federal grant. This new UTC named RE-CAST (Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation) will carry out multi-scale and multi-disciplinary studies to investigate the use of innovative materials and structural systems to enhance the durability and sustainability of the transportation infrastructure.

Date: 12/13/13