Sustainable Infrastructure and ManUfacturing Lab (SIMU Lab)

Sustainable Infrastructure and ManUfacturing Lab (SIMU Lab) aims to promote sustainable and resilient infrastructure and manufacturing processes by conducting fundamental and applied research with multidisciplinary knowledge. Our research areas include: 

• Sustainable construction materials and manufacturing
• Multi-functional infrastructure materials
• Infrastructure resilience to natural hazards
• Artificial intelligence application in civil infrastructure

Sponsors

Funded Research Projects:

External

1. PI: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) - University Transportation Center (UTC), Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC), “Multi-objective Optimization of Reinforced Precast Concrete for Improved Performance”, 01/2025 - 12/2025.

2. PI: Indiana Department of Transportation - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “”, 07/2024 - 06/2025.

3. Co-PI: Indiana Department of Transportation - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “”, PI: Dr. Yaobin Chen, 08/2024 - 11/2025.

4. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "”, 06/2024 - 06/2025.

5. PI: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Gulf Research Program's , 01/2024 - 12/2025.

6. PI: American Chemical Society (ACS) - Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) - Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants, "", 01/2024 - 08/2026.

7. PI: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) - University Transportation Center (UTC), Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC), "", 01/2024 - 12/2024. 

8. PI: American Concrete Institute (ACI) - Concrete Research Council (CRC), "", 08/2023 - 07/2026.
9. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "", 03/2023 - 04/2024.
10. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "", 03/2023 - 04/2024.
11. PI: National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps, "", 02/2023 - 07/2024.
12. Co-PI: US Department of Transportation - Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) - Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP), "", PI: Dr. Ying Huang, 09/2022 - 09/2025.
13. PI: , "", 06/2022 - 06/2023.
14. Senior Personnel: Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “”, PI: Dr. Yi Jiang, 01/2022 - 12/2023.
15. Co-PI: , "Industrial Capture Research Guidance, Carbon Capture Simulation for Industry Impact (CCSI2), EY20 Field Work Proposal", National Energy Technology Laboratory, 04/2020 - 04/2021.

Internal

1. PI: Purdue Polytechnic Holistic Safety and Security (HSS) Research Impact Area Seed Grant, "Improving Community Hazard Resilience through Data-driven Physics-based Crowdsourcing Approach", Â鶹¾«Æ·, 05/2023 - 06/2024.
2. PI:  - , "", Â鶹¾«Æ·, 05/2023 - 08/2023.
3. PI: , "Life Cycle Assessment for Infrastructure Vulnerable to Flood Hazard in the Great Lake Region", Â鶹¾«Æ·, 08/2022 - 12/2022.
4. Co-PI: Purdue Polytechnic Holistic Safety and Security (HSS) Research Impact Area Seed Grant, "Crowd-Machine Partnership on Road Infrastructure Quality Recognition and Resilience", PI: Dr. Tianyi Li, Â鶹¾«Æ·, 10/2021 - 06/2022.

Ph.D. positions are available at SIMU Lab!

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