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Year 4 Project Summaries
Thrust 1: Hazard Mitigation
- PR1 – Microbial Ecology of Stimulated Ureolytic Bio-cementation
- PR4 – Liquefaction Mitigation via Microbial Denitrification
- PR35 – Colloidal Facilitation of Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP)
- PR36 – MICP Physical Modeling to Assess Liquefaction Mitigation
- PR37 – Up-scaling of Stimulated Ureolytic MICP for Field-scale Deployment
- PR38 – Upscaled Numerical Modeling of Bio-cemented Soils
Thrust 2: Environmental Protection and Restoration
- PR6 – Electrokinetic Transport for Mineral Precipitation and Soil Remediation
- PR7 – Microbially-Enhanced Iron-Modified Zeolite Permeable Reactive Barrier
- PR29 – Microbial Metabolic Chain Elongation (MCE)
- PR42 – Removal of Phosphorous and Nitrogen from Impacted Water via Mineral Precipitation and Microbial Transformation
- PR58 – Restoration of soil crust cover for erosion and fugitive dust mitigation in degraded soils and solar farms
Thrust 3: Infrastructure Construction
- PR9 – Tree Root Inspired Foundation and Retaining Systems
- PR10 – Root system evaluation for multi-function foundation bio-inspiration
- PR11 – Bio-inspired Deep Foundation System
- PR12 – Bio-inspired Resilient Earthen Construction
- PR13 – Engineering Applications of EICP–Fugitive Dust Mitigation
- PR30 – Biofilm Enabled Permeability Reduction in Sands
- PR45 – EICP for Erosion Control in Sloping Ground
- PR56 – Engineering Applications of EICP: Bio-cemented Columns
Thrust 4: Subsurface Exploration and Excavation
- PR20 – GUSANO: Utilitarian subterranean annelid inspired geo-probe
- PR21 – Geotechnics of Bio-locomotion and Self-Excavating Systems
- PR47 – Bio-inspired self-propelling sensorial systems
- PR48 – Snakeskin-inspired anisotropic surfaces: prescription of frictional interactions at soil-structure interfaces
- PR49 – Universal Biomechanical Processes for Subsurface Exploration and Underground Construction
- PR59 – Field prototype of Bio-inspired Underground self-ReactiOn System (BUROS) for site investigations