Environmental Engineering and Hydrology

TechMRT researchers have conducted a wide variety of studies in environmental engineering and hydrology involving a variety of issues, including hazardous material incident procedures, environmental impact studies, as well as storm water characteristics and performance evaluations of various stormwater flow controls.

 

 

 

Environmental Engineering and Hydrology Research

2016-Present

• SPTC Project 15.5-04 - Infrastructure-Relevant Climate Projections for the Southern Great Plains
• SPTC Project 15.1-17 - Tangential Heave Stress Acting on Deep Foundations in Cold Regions
• Project 0-6843 - Evaluating Use of Sub-Grade Drains with PFC for Stormwater Drainage

2011-2015

• Project 0-6841 - Modeling a Change in Flowrate through Detention or Additional Pavement on the Receiving Stream

• Project 0-6824 - New Rainfall Coefficients
• Project 0-6793 - Snow and Ice Chemicals for Texas Roads
• Project 0-6735 - Best Practices for TxDOT on Handling Wildfires
• Project 0-6654 - Empirical Flow Parameters - A Tool for Hydraulic Model Validity Assessment
• Project 0-6549 - Hydraulic Performance of Staggered-Barrel Culverts for Stream Crossing
• Project 0-5200 - Analysis of the Occurrence and Statistics of Hazardous Materials Spill Incidents along Texas Highways and Suggestions for Mitigation of Transport-Related Spills to Receiving Waters

2006-2010

• Project 0-6382 - Establish Effective Lower Bounds of Watershed Slope for Traditional Hydrologic Methods
• Project 0-6070 - Use of the Rational and Modified Rational Method for Hydraulic Design
• Project 0-5884 - Handling Issues for Lead and Asbestos in Bridge Construction
• Project 0-5823 - Hydraulic Performance of Type-H Inlets
• Project 0-5822 - Subdivision of Texas Watersheds for Hydrologic Modeling
• Project 0-4695 - Design Guidance for Low-Water Crossings in Areas of Extreme Bed Mobility, Edwards Plateau, Texas
• Project 0-4194 - Dimensionless Hyetographs and Distribution of Storm Depth: Findings and Recommendations
• Project 0-4193 - Regional Characteristics of Unit Hydrographs

2001-2005

• Project 7-4974 - Environmental Characteristics of Traditional Construction and Maintenance Materials
• Project 0-4571 - Utilizing Compost as an Alternative Method to Standard Seedlings
• Project 0-4405 - The Rational Method, Regional Regression Equations, and Site-Specific Flood Frequency Relations

1995-2000

• Project 7-4903 - Right of Way Mowing Height Research