Low-cost Sensing of Railroad Bridges - Developed an Arduino-based sensing platform that can monitor railroad bridges inexpensively
- Developed a battery charging system that can power the sensing platform for long-term monitoring
Measuring total bridge displacements of railroad bridges - Developed a method to fuse accelerometer data with inclinometer data to estimate railroad transverse displacements with pseudo-static components due to asymmetric loading
- Validated the method experimental by simulatng the bridge dispalcements using shake table
Distributed Real-time Hybrid Simulation: Modeling, Development and Experimental Validation (Dissertation Topic) - Developed a platform to conduct Distributed RTHS over IP/UDP using MATLAB/xPC Target
- Estimated and compensated the internet tome delay on-the-fly
- Validated distributed RTHS with RTHS and shake table responses of a large-scale steel structure
Verification of Real-time Hybrid Simulation with Shake Table Tests - Adapted LQG based control system for magneto-rheological damper
- Compared RTHS results to seismic shake table responses of a large-scale steel structure
Integration of Structural Health Monitoring Applications to HIL - System ID of the target structure in damaged and undamaged case
- Health monitoring of the test structure in a HIL framework
Empowering the Scientific Community with Streaming Data Middleware: Software Integration into Complex Science Environments - Integrated HIL with Open Source Data Turbine (OSDT), a data streaming software, and lead OSDT developers
- Used OSDT APIs to integrate MATLAB/xPC into OSDT for data generation and streaming
- Developed a software that monitors TCP ports, reports OSDT’s uptime/health in Python language
Large Scale Distributed Substructure Testing for Collapse-Resistance Evaluation of Buildings and Bridges at Harbin Institute of Technology, China - Developed a HIL framework running on dSpace
- Conducted shake table tests on a large-scale 3D structure, and implemented semi-active control strategies for damper
Performance-Based Design and Real-time, Large-scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems - Conducted System Identification tests on a large-scale frame
- Developed a MATLAB based program to detect impacts, parse data, and convert to transfer function
- Developed a new control-oriented model updating algorithm based on identified structural parameters
Analytical Modeling of Diagonally Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams under Lateral Loads (Thesis Topic) - Developed a recipe for modeling diagonally reinforced coupling beams using DRAIN-2DX and OpenSees
- Validated experimental coupling beam and coupled wall results with the developed model
Strengthening of Brick Infilled RC Frames with Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Overlays (Undergrad. Research) - Surface preparation of damaged brick infilled wall specimens for FRP retrofit
- Provided suggestions for attaching FRP for easy yet reliable retrofitting
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