Paper published by FIU CEE students and faculty has won the 2023 Best Paper Award by Elsevier Engineering Structures Journal.

The research group led by Dr. Armin Mehrabi has been working since 2021 to develop a framework for inspection of in-service FRP reinforced/strengthened concrete bridge elements sponsored by the US Federal Highway Administration (https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cee_fac/9/ ). The work is a collaboration between FIU and UM and addresses an important knowledge gap in this area.

One of six journal papers published on this research work in 2023 titled, “Identifying NDT methods for damage detection in concrete elements reinforced or strengthened with FRP” has just received the 2023 Best Paper Award by Elsevier Engineering Structures Journal. The paper is coauthored by Seyed Saman Khedmatgozar Dolati, Pranit Malla, Jesus Ortiz, Armin Mehrabi, and Antonio Nanni and has already received 15 citations (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.116155).