WFAA8abc – Sahadat Hossain Ph.d., a UT Arlington civil engineering researcher, explains that hundreds of 10-foot “pins” made from recycled plastic have been jammed into the hillside to stop a problem called “slope failure.” Hossain said it’s a problem “almost everywhere in Texas. The plastic-rod stabilization solution originated elsewhere, but…
UT Arlington in the News – A UT Arlington civil engineering researcher has won a $1 million state transportation department grant to install pins made from reclaimed and recycled plastic along some of the region’s busiest highways to shore up clay soils that support the roads. Sahadat Hossain, an associate…
UT Arlington News Center – A UT Arlington civil engineering researcher has won a $1 million state transportation department grant to install pins made from reclaimed and recycled plastic along some of the region’s busiest highways to shore up clay soils that support the roads. Sahadat Hossain, an associate professor…
UT Arlington in the News – Denton captures enough methane from the city landfill to power about 1,600 homes. All the city has to do is add water, which it has been doing in a process used since 2008, and researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are helping…
UT Arlington in the News – Denton powers about 1,600 homes with methane captured from the city landfill — gas created after the city started adding water to the pile in 2008, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are helping to double that power-generating…
UT Arlington in the News – Green Optimistic.com reported on efforts by UT Arlington engineers to recover methane to double the electricity output of a Denton landfill. Sahadat Hossain and Melanie Sattler, associate professors of civil engineering, funded by a $344,414 city grant, were able to make improvements to the…
UT Arlington News Center – Two UT Arlington civil engineering professors are working with a new imaging system that has doubled the amount of methane gas produced by the city of Denton landfill. The landfill is the first in Texas to implement the Enhanced Leachate Recirculation system. The gas now…