ISE graduate student Nicholas Anthony Farace has won an ASNT Graduate Student Fellowship
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Nicholas Anthony Farace
ISE graduate student Nicholas Anthony Farace has won an ASNT Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Society for Nondestructive Testing for ”Quantitative Evaluation of Rejuvenators Using Acoustic Emission towards Effective Pavement Maintenance/Preservation.” The award will provide $20,000 to support the project for one year.
Farace describes the project as follows. “Rejuvenators have the potential to restore asphalt concrete pavement surfaces to their original condition in the same manner as various creams restore youth to human skin. However, a simple evaluation tool to assess the effectiveness of rejuvenators does not yet exist. Currently, the evaluation of rejuvenators is qualitative, cumbersome, and unreliable, which makes their effectiveness to be viewed with a great degree of skepticism. The main goal of this project is to develop a method for quantitative evaluation of rejuvenators.”