Extending the Service-Life of Bridges using Sustainable and Resilient Abutment Systems: An Experimental Approach to Electrochemical Characterization of Lightweight Mechanically Stabilized Earth

FARIBORZ M TEHRANI, PHD, PE, ENV SP, PMP, SAP, F.ASCE

Dr. Fariborz M. Tehrani is a Professor and Director with more than three decades of academic and industry background in engineering design, management, education, and leadership. His research and practice experiences focus on sustainable and resilient structural engineering, mechanics, and materials (SR-SEMM). Fariborz is a Fellow ASCE, the Director of the ESCSI, a voting member of several ACI, ASTM, and TRB Committees, the EMI’s Liaison in the ASCE Sustainability Task Committee, and the Vice Chair of EMI Objective Resilience Committee. He has also served as the ISI Academic Committee Chair and EWB professional mentor in USC, UCSD, and Cal Poly SLO. He has over 100 published and over 110 presented scholarly works. Dr. Tehrani received the 2015 ASCE Region 9 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, the 2017 CHESC Best Practice Award, and two 2019 ASCE Research Awards from Fresno and San Francisco for two projects. He received his BSc from the Sharif University of Technology, his MSc from Amirkabir University of Technology, and his MS, Degree in Engineering, and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

KENNETH L FISHMAN, PHD, PE, M.ASCE

Dr. Kenneth L. Fishman, PhD, PE is a geotechnical engineer and principal at McMahon and Mann Consulting Engineering and Geology, P.C. where he leads the Earth Reinforcement Testing Division. For the past 25 years, he has been involved in the research and application of corrosion testing and corrosion mitigation for buried steel. He has served on numerous projects related to condition assessment, corrosion monitoring, and expected service life modeling for earth reinforcements. These projects include research, the implementation of research results, training, and applications of state-of-the-art techniques for performance monitoring and the characterization of corrosion potential. They have involved different transportation agencies, suppliers of earth reinforcement systems, dam owners, mine operators, railway operators, contractors, and engineering consultants scattered throughout North America. Dr. Fishman served as PI for NCHRP Project 21-11 “Improved Test Methods and Practices for Characterizing Steel Corrosion Potential of Earthen Materials,” and was appointed to the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) ad hoc Committee on "The Corrosion of Buried Steel at New and In Service Infrastructure.” He has participated in numerous workshops and webinars sponsored by NCHRP, FHWA, AASHTO, TRB, and others including two webinars related to asset management and performance modeling sponsored by the FHWA Office of Asset Management and Resource Center, AASHTO, and TRB. Dr. Fishman has extensive experience reviewing technical documents having served as an editor for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, and current assignments as an editor for Geostrata, and member of the ASCE Geo-Institute (GI) Technical Publications Committee with responsibilities including editing for the ASCE series on Geotechnical Practice Publications (GPP). 

FARMEHR M DEHKORDI, MSC, M.RILEM 

Mr. Farmehr M. Dehkordi is a Rilem member and Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino and a visiting research assistant at California State University, Fresno. His research interests include the application of fiber-reinforced brittle materials, such as fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) and fiber-reinforced ice (FRI). He received his BSc from Isfahan University of Technology and his MSc from Politecnico di Torino.