Structural engineering alum Xu Han ’23 PhD and his doctoral advisor Professor Dan M. Frangopol have been awarded the ASCE 2024 Alfred Noble Prize, an esteemed interdisciplinary award from a consortium of professional societies, administered by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Han and Frangopol were honored for their paper “Life-cycle Risk-based Optimal Maintenance Strategy for Bridge Networks Subjected to Corrosion and Seismic Hazards,” which was published in the Journal of Bridge Engineering in January 2023. The paper describes a study on creating an optimal maintenance strategy for bridge networks facing corrosion and earthquake risks.