The following is a list of news articles and awards from the Center for Transportation Computational Mechanics.
- TTI Wins Multiple Outstanding Paper Awards at TRB
- TTI Featured on Discovery Canada
- Simulated Crash Testing Saves Time and Money—Texas Transportation Researcher article
- The paper, “Application of a Precast Concrete Barrier Adjacent to a Steep Roadside Slope,” was the 2010 winner of the Practice-Ready Paper Award sponsored by the Transportation Research Board’s Design and Construction Group. This award is given each year to an outstanding published paper that is judged to have the best potential for immediate implementation in the design and construction of transportation facilities. Read the press release and an article that appeared in a 2007 edition of the Texas Transportation Researcher.
- “Low-Deflection Portable Concrete Barrier” earned the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) K. B. Woods Award for its authors Roger P. Bligh, Nauman Mansoor Sheikh, Dean C. Alberson, and Akram Y. Abu-Odeh of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Read the press release.
- TTI researchers Akram Abu-Odeh and Nauman Mansoor Sheikh were recently profiled in the FEA Information Engineering Journal newsletter. Read the profiles on page 10-11 of the December 2009 edition of the FEA newsletter.
- Road and Bridges article on an improved concrete barrier system developed by the Center for Transportation Computational Mechanics. Read the article.
- Profile of the performance of roadside hardware simulation using LS-DYNA® by the Center for Transportation Computational Mechanics.The profile appeared on the Argonne National Laboratory website.
- Post Doctoral Research Associate Chiara Silvetri recently published an article titled “Investigation of LS-DYNA® Modeling for Active Muscle Tissues that appeared in the EA Information Engineering Journal newsletter. The story appeared on page 7 of the April 2011 edition of the FEA newsletter.
- Texas Transportation Researcher story about the collaborative research efforts between a group of agencies dedicated to making our nation safer. Since 2004, Sandia National Laboratories and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have collaborated on projects for several federal agencies including the United States Department of Energy, Technical Support Working Group (a consortium of federal agencies), the United States Department of State, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Read the article.
- Texas Transportation Researcher story project for TxDOT that modified the standards for low-speed guardrail-to-bridge rail transitions. Read the article on page 14.