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Teaching

CE 204: Surveying Fundamentals

CE 314 : Civil Engineering Materials

CE 352 : Transportation Engineering

 

Research

Research Interests

  • Early-age cracking of cementitious materials
  • Plastic and drying shrinkage of concrete
  • Fiber reinforced concrete
  • Non-destructive evaluation of concrete
  • Trafific Engineering
  • Highway safety
  • Hurricane Evacuation

Research Projects

  • 2005: A Study on the Influence of Ultrafine Fly ash on the Stress Development, Stress Relaxation and Cracking in Restrained Concrete Ring Specimens, Funded by Boral Materials Technologies, Inc, San Antonio, TX.
  • 2005: A Study on the Influence of Several Commercially Available Pozzolanic Materials on Portland Cement Concrete Properties, Funded by the University Committee on Undergraduate Research
  • 2004: An Experimental Study of Stress Development in Restrained Concrete Due to Expansion, Funded by the University of South Alabama Research Council.

 

Publications

Refereed Journal Publications:

  • Hossain, A. B., and Weiss, W. J., “The Role of Specimen Geometry and Boundary Conditions on Stress development and Cracking in the Restrained Ring Test”, Cement and Concrete Research (Accepted).
  • Hossain, A. B., and Weiss, W. J., “Assessing Residual Stress Development and Stress Relaxation in Restrained Concrete Ring Specimens”, Cement and Concrete Composites,26, 2004, 531-540 .
  • Hossain, A. B., Pease. B., and Weiss, W. J.,  "Quantifying Early-Age Stress Development and Cracking in Low W/C Concrete Using the Restrained Ring Test with Acoustic Emission” Transportation Research Record,1834, 2003, 24-32 . 
  • Pant P.D., Park Y., Neti, S.V., and Hossain, A.B. "A Comparative Study of Rural Stop-Controlled and Beacon-Controlled Intersections," Transportation Research Record, 1692, 1999, 164-172.

 

Conference Publications:

  • Pease B. J., Shah, H., Hossain, A. B., and Weiss, W. J., “Restrained Shrinkage Behavior of Mixtures Containing Shrinkage Reducing Admixtures and Fibers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Concrete Composites and Structures (ICACS-2005), Chennai, India, 2005. 
  • Pease B. J., Hossain, A. B., and Weiss, W. J.,  “ Quantifying Volume Change, Stress Development, and Cracking Due to Self-Desiccation,” ACI SP-220  (Special Publication on Self-Desiccation in Concrete), 23-39, March 2004.
  • Shah, H.R., Hossain, A.B. and Weiss, J., Using the Restrained Ring Test in Conjunction with Passive Acoustic Emission to Quantify the Role of Steel Fiber Reinforcement in Shrinkage Cracking Mitigation, Proceedings of the Conference on Fiber Composites, High-Performance Concretes, and Smart Materials, International Center for Fiber Reinforced Concrete (ICFRC), Chennai, India, January 2004. 
  • Shah,H.R., Hossain, A.B., Mazzotta, G., and Weiss, J.,  Time-Dependent Fracture in Restrained Concrete: The Influence of Notches and Fibers, Proceedings of the Conference on Advances in Cement and Concrete:  Volume Change, Cracking and Durability, Copper Mountain, Colorado, August 2003.
  • Pant, P.D., Polycarpou, M.P., Sankaranayanan, P., Li, B., and Hossain, A.B., "Travel Time Prediction System (TIPS) for Freeway Work Zones," Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies held in China, American Society Of Civil Engineers, July 27-29, 1998.
  • Hoque, M, Ahmed, S. N., and Hossain, A.B.,  " Non-Motorized Transport : The Most Dominant Mode in Bangladesh", Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transportation Research, Sydney, 1995.

 

 

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