报告题目：Bioinspired Infrastructure Materials and Composites

　　报告时间：2019年6月14日（星期五）9:00

　　报告地点：北辰校区土木与交通学院216会议室

　　报告嘉宾：Tahar El-Kochi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

　　嘉宾简介：

　　Dr. Tahar El-Korchi is a Professor and Chair of the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department at WPI. He served as Interim Head of the Fire Protection Engineering Department at WPI. Dr. El-Korchi is an expert in the areas of Materials, structures, pavement engineering, and resiliency in the built environment. He is author of over 100 publications, 3 textbooks on Pavement Engineering and 5 book chapters. Dr. El-Korchi is the founder and co-director of the WPI-Morocco Project Center and the WPI-Panama project center which supports students to complete projects at the intersection of technology and society. Dr. El-Korchi was the inaugural Co-director of the newly launched WPI-Tsinghua Center for Global Public Safety Dr. El-Korchi was the faculty project leader for the Solar Decathlon China 2013 and the current Solar Decathlon Africa 2019 in Morocco. Dr. El-Korchi is a visiting faculty scholar at Hebei University of Science and Technology  Tianjin, China. Dr. El-Korchi was the recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

　　报告摘要：

　　Bioinspired Infrastructure Materials and Composites:

　　The US spends billions of dollars annually for infrastructure rehabilitation and retrofit. There is a need for a new generation of materials to enhance urban infrastructure resiliency.Bioinspired materials are being developed to fulfill this need. A new generation of waste based geopolymers, cement based composites and polymeric asphalts are being researched and developed to generate sustainable and resilient infrastructure materials.  An overview of current materials-based research, applications for the solar decathlon project and fire resistance of related projects in the CEE Department at WPI will be presented.