NIST

Duration: 2009-2012

Role: Co-I

Research Objectives: 

United States is at a critical point in renewing its infrastructure.  The civil infrastructure of our nation is rapidly aging.  Many of our highways, bridges, and pipelines are over fifty years old.  The U.S. has about Approximately 600,000 bridges, 4 million miles of roads and highways, over 107 nuclear power plant units, 1,595 dams in the national inventory list designated as significant hazardous, 1.8 million miles of pipelines for delivering petroleum, natural gas, etc.,6 billion gallons of drinking water disappears due to leakages in pipelines, approximately 500,000 government owned buildings including building for food services, health services and education. In any nation the reliable infrastructure is essential for the health and safety of the population and for improving the quality of life. Regular maintenance becomes mandatory for rehabilitation of the infrastructures and the regular maintenance of our roadways, bridges and pipelines costs over $150 billion annually. Even after such great expense, there are more than 40 fatalities per year causing massive human and property losses.

Thus the objective of this project is to implement a closed loop Civil infrastructure health management tools and plans, presented Graphically. 

This project was performed when Prof. Banerjee was the Director of Product Development at Acellent Technologies and NIST TIP-2008 program funded this project to Acellent. 

With new infrastructure bill this type of projects should be resurrected.