Center for Advanced Construction Materials

Mission

To assist industrial partners in testing their new formulations
To conduct field testing and implementation of new products
To produce new infrasructure repair products
To improve the performance of recycled highway construction materials
To solve problems with construction materials and their applications

Objective

To become a development and testing arm for the private sector
To become an independent new product evaluation center for the public sector
To become a partnering catalyst between the public and private sectors

Facilities

The Center for Advanced Construction Materials (CACM) has specialized research facilities including concrete/asphalt mixing equipment, compression and flexural testing equipment with automatic data acquisition and crosshead position indicator, atomic absorption spectrophotography, and automated pavement crack imaging system. The Center has access to Engineering College facilities including scanning electron microscopy, and cold room for freeze/thaw testing.

Core Technology Areas

Use of Recycled Materials in Construction
- Development of cryogenic tire processing equipment
- Magnesium oxychloride cement mix with recycled tire rubber
- Latex modified tire crumb rubber reinforced cement concrete
New Concrete Repair Materials
- Detailed review of concrete repair practices and performance
- Composites for retrofit and repair of infrastructure
- Column overwrap and column/slab intersection reinforcement
Automated Crack Measuring Device
- Fully automated crack data collection approach without any human involvement
- Image processing algorithm to measure the extent and severity of cracks
- Microtexture information obtained from the image to determine skid resistance
New Construction Product Evaluation
- Corrosion inhibiting deicing material "Ammonium Carbamate"
- Soil stabilization material "Stein-R"
- SHRP SuperPave Level I mix design of asphalt pavements
- Publication of new construction product needs
- National transportation product evaluation workshop

Contact Information

Dr. Hosin Lee, P.E.
3220 Merrill Engineering Building
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Phone: (801) 585-3512
Fax: (801) 585-5477
Email: hlee@civil.utah.edu