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| Michael C. Brown, Ph.D., P.E. |
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| Research Scientist – VTRC |
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Michael Brown
Virginia Transportation Research Council
530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 |
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Biographical Information
Michael Brown is a Research Scientist with the Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC), a multi-modal research center sponsored jointly by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the University of Virginia. Dr. Brown also serves as the Smart Road Program Manager, and is responsible for overseeing VDOT's relationships with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, in Blacksburg, Virginia, home of Virginia's Smart Road.
Dr. Brown joined VDOT in 2002 as a Research Scientist in the area of Transportation Structures. He has published articles on bridge testing, bridge management and predicting service life of structures as relates to corrosion. He serves on the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board technical committee on Corrosion and Structures Maintenance. He chairs the ACI International technical committee on Bridge Construction, Maintenance and Repair and serves on the Corrosion and Service Life committees. He also serves on a National Cooperative Highway Research Program project panel aimed at advancing optimization techniques used in Bridge Management Systems.
Dr. Brown serves as a visiting assistant professor in the recently formed graduate pavements program at the University of Virginia's and teaches structural design as an adjunct faculty in School of Engineering & Applied Science. Dr. Brown holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees, as well as a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he specialized in transportation infrastructure and corrosion deterioration of reinforced concrete structures. Dr. Brown is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Awards
• Outstanding Young Alumni Award (Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech) 2007
• Horizon Award for Outstanding Achievement (Virginia Transportation Research Council) 2003
Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
Ramniceanu, A., Weyers R.E., Anderson-Cook, C., and Brown, M.C., "Measuring the Field Corrosion Activity of Bridge Decks Built with Bare and Epoxy Coated Steel", Journal of ASTM International (JAI), Vol. 3, No. 8, Paper ID JAI100427, August 2006.
Brown, M.C., Weyers R.E., and Sprinkel, M.M., "Service Life Extension of Virginia Bridge Decks Afforded by Epoxy-Coated Reinforcement", Journal of ASTM International (JAI), Paper ID: JAI11793, December 2005.
Brown, M. C., R.E. Weyers, M. M. Sprinkel, "Solution Tests Of Corrosion Inhibiting Admixtures For Reinforced Concrete," ACI Materials Journal, Vol. 99 No. 4, July-August, 2002, pp. 371-378.
Brown, M. C., R.E. Weyers, M. M. Sprinkel, "Effect of Corrosion-Inhibiting Admixtures on Material Properties of Concrete," ACI Materials Journal, Vol. 98 No. 3, May-June, 2001, pp. 240-250.
Weyers, R. E., M. Brown, I. L. Al-Qadi, and M. Henry, "A Rapid Method for Measuring the Acid-Soluble Chloride Content of Powdered Concrete Samples," Cement, Concrete, and Aggregates, American Society for Testing and Materials, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 1993, pp. 3-13.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Sansone, J. and Brown, M.C., "The Effect of Linear Cracking on Chloride Penetration in Concrete Bridge Decks," Symposium on Corrosion Health Assessment, Monitoring and Protection of Reinforced Concrete Infrastructures, CORROSION/2007, Nashville, TN, March 11-15, 2007
Brown, M. C., R. E. Weyers, N. S. Berke, R. M. Weyers, and M. M. Sprinkel, "Extended Corrosion Performance of an Impregnation-Treated Concrete Bridge Deck," 9th AASHTO/TRB Maintenance Management Conference, Juneau, Alaska, July 16-20, 2000.
Bryant, Jr., J. W., R. E. Weyers, M. C. Brown, R. M. Weyers, "Evaluation of a Penetrating Corrosion Inhibitor System," 9th AASHTO/TRB Maintenance Management Conference, Juneau, Alaska, July 16-20, 2000.
VTRC Project Reports
Weyers, R.E., Sprinkel, M.M., and Brown, M.C. , Summary report on the performance of epoxy-coated reinforcing steel in Virginia, VTRC 06-R29, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, June 2006.
Lucas, J.L., Cousins, T.E., Brown, M.C., Structural Load Testing and Flexure Analysis of the Route 701 Bridge in Louisa County, Virginia: Supplemental Report, VTRC 06-R14, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, February 2006.
Brown, M. C. and Sharp, S. R., Effectiveness of Sacrificial Anodes in High-Resistivity Shotcrete Repairs, VTRC 05-R25, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, March 2005.
Lucas, J.L., Cousins, T.E., Brown, M.C., Sharp, S.R., and Lane, D.S., Structural Load Testing and Flexure Analysis of the Route 701 Bridge in Louisa County, Virginia, VTRC 04-R12, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, June 2004.
Brown, M.C., Gomez, J.P., Cousins, T.E., and Barton, F.W., Composite Action in a Steel Girder Span with Precast Deck Panels: The I-81 Bridge over the New River in Radford, Virginia, VTRC 04-R4, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, October 2003.
Brown, M.C., Weyers, R.E., and Wheeler, M. C., Corrosion Protection Service Life of Epoxy-Coated Reinforcing Steel in Virginia Bridge Decks, VTRC 04-CR7, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, September 2003.
Kirkpatrick , T. J., Weyers, R. E., Anderson-Cook, C., Sprinkel, M.M., and Brown, M.C., A Model To Predict The Impact Of Specification Changes On The Chloride-Induced Corrosion Service Life Of Virginia Bridge Decks, VTRC 03-CR4, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, October 2002.
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