Final Program

Part 1: Presentations

• Port of Houston Challenges and Issues
  Colonel Len Waterworth
• Framework for Developing a Real-Time Broad-Area Disaster Management System
  Olufemi A. Omitaomu
• Emergency Management Challenges and Planning Collaboration at Texas Medical Center
  Angela N. Smith
• Real-Time Geospatial Infrastructure Modeling for Disaster Response and Rapid Recovery: NSF - Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Research Study
  Craig Glennie, Ioannis Kakadiaris, Shishir Shah, Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan
• Addressing Forecast Uncertainty in Hurricane Response Plans
  Dante Diaz
• Federal and State Disaster Coordination under ESF-10 and ESF 3: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike
  Williams Grimes
• Mobile Apps for Emergency Situation Awareness During Hurricane and Disaster
  Thomas C. Chen
• The Ike Dike: A Coastal Barrier Protecting the Houston/Galveston Region from Hurricane Storm Surge
  William Merrell and Robert W. Whalin
• Modeling of Innovative Shutter Protection against Strom Surge in the Galveston Bay
  C. Vipulanandan, Y. Jeannot Ahossin Guezo and B. Basirat
• Energy Security on a Barrier Island
  Marcel Blanchard
• Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning
  Gavin Smith
• Local Disaster Resilience across the Gulf Coast: Intersecting Capacities for and Perceptions of Resilience
  Ashley Ross

Part 2: Posters

• Effect of Oil Contamination and Temperature on the Resistivity of Drilling Mud
  Ahmed S. Mohammed, C. Vipulanandan, and Dr.Richardson
• Effect of Salt Contamination on the Fluid loss, Early Strength and Piezoresistive Response of Class H Oil Well Cement
  A. Zomorrodian, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Fluid Loss Predication Using a New Filter Cake Model
  Aram M. Raheem, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Effect of Oil Contamination on the Electrical Properties and Compressive Strength of Modified Oil Well Cement
  A. Khodaean, C. Vipulanandan and D.Richardson
• Effect of Salt Contamination on the Filtration Loss in 4% Bentonite Drilling Mud with Xanthan Gum
  B. Basirat, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Effect of Lime on Modified Oil Based Drilling Mud (OBM)
  Dongmei Pan, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Comparing the Year 2013 Hurricane Predictions for Gulf Coast and Texas
  Dongmei Pan and C. Vipulanandan
• Effect of Oil Contamination on the Behavior of a 6% Bentonite Drilling Mud
  K. Ali, C. Vipulanandan and Donald Richardson
• Low-Power Optical Switching for Hurricane Resilient Communication
  Linsen Wu, Wenhao Chen, Dmitriy Chenchykov, Lei Wang andYuhua Chen
• Characterizing the Short-Term Behavior of Modified Cement Contaminated with Oil Based Drilling Mud
  M. Heidari, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Axial and Lateral Sliding of Pipe on Simulated Seabed Soft Soil
  Mohammad Sarraf. J  and C. Vipulanandan
• Modified Ultrafine Cement as Effective Piezoresistive Repair Material for Damaged Oil Well Cement
  P. Ramanathan, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Effect of Temperature on the Resistivity of Modified Oilwell Cement Mixed with Salt Water
  Pooya Kheiri, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Effect of Salt Water Contamination on the Filtration Loss of an Ester Based Drilling Fluid
  R. Prasad, C. Vipulanandan and D. Richardson
• Development of Carbon Nanofiber Aggregate for Concrete Compressive Strain Monitoring
  Rachel N. Howser, Yuping Liu, Y.L. Mo1 and Gangbing Song
• Monitoring Crack Growth in Layered Polymer Composite Beams Using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) System
  Y. J. Ahossin Guezo and C. Vipulanandan
• Phase Behavior of Mixtures of Polymer Functionalized Nanoparticles and a Polymer Matrix
  Katrina Irene Mongcopa and Ramanan Krishnamoorti
• pH-responsive Behavior of Aqueous CTAB/NaSal Solutions
  Chinedu Umeasiegbu, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, and Vemuri Balakotaiah