MTC Asset Newsletter Winter 2007
Transportation Scholars Conference 2006
Sixteen students presented 10 papers at the Transportation Scholars Conference at Iowa State University (ISU) last November.
Mustafa Birkan Bayrak, graduate student in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at ISU, was named winner of the 2006 research paper competition. He was awarded a $1000 prize for his paper, “Backcalculation of Layer Moduli for Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks.”
Other papers included
- Drained and Undrained Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Sand (Cheng-Wei Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia)
- Understanding Early-Age Shrinkage of High-Performance Concrete for Bridge Deck Applications (T. P. Earney, V. S. Gopalaratnam, and G. C. Luckenbill, University of Missouri-
Columbia) - Safety Effects of Offset Right-Turn Lanes at Rural Expressway Intersections (Joshua L. Hochstein, ISU)
- Comparison of Flexible Pavement Performance Using KENLAYER and HDM-4 (Daba S. Gedafa, Kansas State University)
- Present Pavement Maintenance Practice: A Case Study for Indian Conditions Using HDM-4 (Daba S. Gedafa, Kansas State University)
- Surface Wave Measurements at a Deep Soil Site Using Passive Surface Wave Energy (Jianhua Li, University of Missouri-Columbia)
- The Effectiveness of Low-Cost Traffic Calming Applications Appropriate for Main Streets Through Rural Communities (Eric R. Petersen, ISU)
- Effectiveness of Seat Belts in Reducing Injuries: A Different Approach Based on KABCO Injury Severity Scale (Indike Ratnayake, Kansas State University)
- An Integrated Systems Approach to the Development of Winter Maintenance/ Management Systems (Ya Zhang, Tom Hutsel, James Noble, Wooseung Jang, Cerry Klein, and Charles Nemmers, University of Missouri-Columbia)
All papers presented at the conference are available on the MTC’s website at www.ctre.iastate.edu/mtc/papers/.
