Research Progress and Outcomes

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Aghababaei, M., &  Koliou, M. (2022).  Community resilience assessment via agent-based modeling approach. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering,  00,  1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12916

Aghababaei, M., & Koliou, M. (2022). Toward Community Resilience Assessment. In Objective Resilience: Applications (pp. 1-18). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Yu, S., Malecha, M., & Berke, P. (2021). Examining factors influencing plan integration for community resilience in six US coastal cities using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Landscape and Urban Planning, 215, 104224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104224  

Woodruff, S., Meerow, S., Gilbertson, P., Hannibal, B.,…Yu, S., & Berke, P. (2021). Is flood resilience planning improving? A longitudinal analysis of networks of plans in Boston and Fort Lauderdale. Climate Risk Management, 100354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100354 

Berke, P., Kates, J., Malecha, M., Masterson, J., Shea, P., & Yu, S. (2021). Using a resilience scorecard to improve local planning for vulnerability to hazards and climate change: An application in two cities. Cities, 119, 103408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103408  

Newman, G., Sansom, G. T., Yu, S., Kirsch, K. R., Li, D., Kim, Y., … & Musharrat, S. (2022). A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX. Sustainability, 14(7), 4247. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/7/4247 

Li, X., Yu, S., Huang, X., Dadashova, B., Cui, W., & Zhang, Z. (2022). Do underserved and socially vulnerable communities observe more crashes? A spatial examination of social vulnerability and crash risks in Texas. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 173, 106721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106721 

Gharaibeh, Nasir, Isaac Oti, Michelle Meyer, Marccus Hendricks, and Shannon Van Zandt. “Potential of Citizen Science for Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring Data and Decision‐Support Models for Local Communities.” Risk Analysis 41, no. 7 (2021): 1104-1110.

Bahareh Alizadeh, Diya Li, Julia Hillin, Michelle A. Meyer, Courtney M. Thompson, Zhe Zhang, Amir H. Behzadan. 2022. “Human-centered flood mapping and intelligent routing through augmenting flood gauge data with crowdsourced street photos.” Advanced Engineering Informatics. Volume 54, 101730. ISSN 1474-0346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2022.101730.

Hendricks, M. D., Meyer, M. A., & Wilson, S. M. (2022). Moving Up the Ladder in Rising Waters: Community Science in Infrastructure and Hazard Mitigation Planning as a Pathway to Community Control and Flood Disaster Resilience. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1).

Chen, Z., Jang, S., Kaihatu, J.M., Zhou, Y.-H., Wright, F.A., Chiu, W.A., and Rusyn, I. (2021). “Potential human health hazard of post-Hurricane Harvey sediments in Galveston Bay and Houston Ship Channel: a case study of using in vitrobioactivity data to inform risk management decisions.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413378 

Kijewski-Correa, T., Roueche, D., Kennedy, A., Allen, D., Marshall, J., Kaihatu, J., Wood, R.L., Smith, D.J., Lester, H., Lochhead, M., Copp, A., McCarthy, A., Prevatt, D.O., and Robertson, I. (2021). “Impacts of Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas: field observations of hazard intensity and performance of the built environment.” Coastal Engineering Journal, doi: 10.1080/21664250.2021.1958613. 

Chen Chen, Haizhong Wang, Michael K. Lindell, Meen Chel Jung, M.R.K. Siam. Tsunami preparedness and resilience: Evacuation logistics and time estimations, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920922001523#GS1

Haizhong Wang, Michael Lindell, M.R.K. Siam, Chen Chen, Rahmawati Husein, Local residents’ immediate responses to the 2018 Indonesia earthquake and tsunami.  Earthquake Spectra, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/87552930221105104

Chen Chen, Alireza Mostafizi, Haizhong Wang, Dan Cox, Lori Cramer. Evacuation Behaviors in Tsunami Drills, Natural Hazards, 112, 845-871 (2022). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-022-05208-y#Ack1

Surya Sarat Chandra Congress, Ph.D.; Anand J. Puppala, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE; Amit Gajurel, S.M.ASCE; and Navid H. Jafari, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE. 2021. Transforming Aerial Reconnaissance Data of Pavement Infrastructure into Knowledge for Better Response to Natural Disasters. Geo-Extreme 2021 : Case Histories and Best Practices . 2021. 

Boluk, B., Chakraborty, S., Puppala, A.J., Jafari, N.H. (2022). Inverse Analysis of a Failed Highway Embankment Slope in North Texas. In: Tutumluer, E., Nazarian, S., Al-Qadi, I., Qamhia, I.I. (eds) Advances in Transportation Geotechnics IV. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77238-3_44 

Omar Ulloa; Surya Sarat Chandra Congress, Ph.D.; Gang Lei; Xinbao Yu, Ph.D.; Navid H. Jafari, Ph.D.; and Anand J. Puppala, Ph.D. 2020. Comprehensive Slope Stability Analysis of a Failed Roadway Embankment. Tran-SET 2020

Mohammad Salehi, Petros Sideris, Reginald DesRoches. Numerical modeling of repaired reinforced concrete bridge columns. Engineering Structures. Volume 253, 15 February 2022, 113801. Selected as an Editors Featured Article!