Overview Highway transportation is the most common mode of transport in the U.S. for the movement of goods and services,...
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Hani Nassif
Director, Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation (RIME)
Professor Hani Nassif is currently working in the research area of structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges and the use of advanced cementitious materials for infrastructure applications. Dr. Nassif is currently the Director of the “Bridge Resource Program (BRP)”, sponsored by New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), designed to assist NJDOT in finding practical solutions for various challenges related to design, evaluation, load rating, SHM and Non-destructive testing (NDT), innovative materials, as well as on-call emergency responses. He is also serving as the Associate Director for Outreach and Technology Transfer, for the newly established Tier 1 Center (2017-2021), “Connected Cities for Smart Mobility toward Accessible and Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)” led by NYU. He also served as the associate Director for the Center on Research on Concrete Application for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST), another Tier 1 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) led by Missuori University for Science and Technology (MUST) (2013-2018) to address the U.S.DOT’s strategic goal of State of Good Repair.
He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and past member of its Technical Activity Committee (TAC) and served as the President of the New Jersey ACI Chapter. He is active in various committees in ACI and TRB. He received various awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the NJACI Chapter and Concrete Aggregate Association, AASHTO’s Research Activities Committee (2013) “Sweet Sixteen”, Project Implementation Award from NJDOT (2013 and 2017), American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Educator of The Year Award (2006) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Central New Jersey’s Educator of The Year Award (2005) for excellence in education and his dedication to student learning. He also served as the President of the Rutgers’ Chapter of the Scientific Research Society. He is a member of the Engineering Honor Societies Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon. Dr. Nassif has several years of practical experience in the area of structural design and construction.
C2SMART Projects
Finite Element Analyses and Crash Testing of NYSDOT Bridge Railing and Barrier (MASH 2016)
The AASHTO-FHWA Joint Agreement for the Implementation of MASH 2016 requires that any roadside safety hardware (guide rail, bridge rail,...
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Design Finite Element Analyses and Crash Testing
The AASHTO-FHWA Joint Agreement for the Implementation of MASH 2016 requires that any roadside safety hardware (guide rail, bridge rail,...
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Low Carbon Concrete (LCC) Pilot Program
Overview Cement, the primary binding agent in concrete, accounts for up to 7 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, according...
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Calibration/Development of Safety Performance Functions for New Jersey
Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) in the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) were developed using historic crash data collected in different states....
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NJDOT Bridge Resource Program
The primary mission of the Bridge Resource Program (BRP) is to provide ongoing engineering evaluation and research support to the...
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AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and NBI (National Bridge Inventory) Element Deterioration Rates for Bridge Management System
The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an analytical framework to calculate deterioration rates for bridges and...
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Development of Advanced Weigh-In-Motion (A-WIM) System for Effective Enforcement of Overweight Trucks to Reduce their Socioeconomic Impact on Major Highways
The research team will first establish a test bed for the development of the advanced WIM (A-WIM) system by collaborating...
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A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Developing Effective Policies to Reduce the Impact Costs of Overweight Vehicles on Roads and Bridges
This multi-disciplinary project will combine the results of engineering modeling in the area of transportation infrastructure deterioration related to overweight...
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Monitoring and Control of Overweight Trucks for Smart Mobility and Safety of Freight Operations
This project will investigate technologies to screen overweight trucks including a high-speed weigh-in-motion (HS-WIM) system integrated with a license plate...
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Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST)
This project has many parts, and the NYU team is currently working with Rutgers on the RE-CAST 2D subproject. This...
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Development of Autonomous Enforcement Approach using Advanced Weigh-In-Motion (A-WIM) System to Minimize Impact of Overweight Trucks on Infrastructure
In this study, the team investigated the effect of overweight trucks on the pavement and bridge damage from a national...
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Implementation and Effectiveness of Autonomous Enforcement of Overweight Trucks in an Urban Infrastructure Environment
Overview Transportation agencies have been enforcing illegal overweight trucks at the weighing stations and by the Police enforcement units. It...
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Capital Program Resource Model (CPRM)
The objective of this study is to develop a model that links the resource requirements for Capital Program delivery functions...
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Field Application of a High-Power Density Electromagnetic Energy Harvester
This project focuses on the feasibility of the proposed EMEH to power sensors that are used to regularly monitor the...
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Integration and Operation of an Advanced Weigh-in-Motion (A-WIM) System for Autonomous Enforcement of Overweight Trucks
Trucks have been an integral part of the freight movement network in distributing goods and services to various communities; however,...
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