CURRENT AND ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

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1.                  Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Four Geotechnical Tasks.” $428,060, Interagency Contract, January 2006 to August 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PIs: Syed Qasim, Laureano R. Hoyos, Sahadat Hossain (Just Funded).

2.                  Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Realistic Guidelines for Low Classification Roads on High PI Clays.” $312,386 (UTA Share - $145,174), January 2006 to December 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PI: Laureano R. Hoyos (On-going).

3.                  City of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. “Comprehensive Studies to Address Combined Lime-Cement Stabilization for Better Support of Arlington Roads.” $114,830, January 15, 2006 to December 2007, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).

4.                  City of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. “Evaluation of Treatment Methods to Stabilize Soft Subgrade Soils of Southeast Arlington: Field Investigations.” $104,000, October 2005 to September 2007, PI: Anand Puppala, Co-PI: Ali Abolmaali (On-going).

5.                   Texas Industries Inc. (TXI), “Experimental Investigations on Aggregate Bases.” $102,500, June 2005 to August 2006, PI: Laureano R. Hoyos and Co-PIs: Anand Puppala and Sahadat Hossain (On-going).

6.                   Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Deep Mixing Technology for Mitigation of Pavement Roughness.” $266,433, September 2004 to August 2006, PI: Anand Puppala, and Co-PI: Laureano R. Hoyos (On-going).

7.                   Texas Department of Transportation and Development (TxDOT), “Correlation of Texas Cone Penetrometer Test Values and Shear Strength of Texas Soils.” $175,000 (UTA Share $45,000; UH, UTA and Lamar Consortium), September 2004 to August 2006, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).

8.                United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth, Texas. “Investigations to Develop Field Stabilization Methods to Mitigate Desiccation Cracks in order to Reduce Slope and Embankment Failures.” $128,192, Feb 2004 - Jan 2007, PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).

9.                National Science Foundation, “MRI: Development of a Strain/Temperature/Suction-Controlled True Triaxial Testing Device for Modeling Unsaturated Soil Behavior Under Multi-axial Stress States,” $272,178, Aug 1, 2002 - July 31, 2006, PI: Laureano R. Hoyos, Co-PI: Anand Puppala (On-going).