Introduction

Welcome to the Jacques Group at the Virginia Tech Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Our research focuses on two broad areas: (i) robustness and resilience of infrastructure against extreme hazards, including blast, impact, and seismic events; (ii) development of new structural forms and innovative materials, validated through large-scale testing and analysis, for cost-effective risk mitigation and hardening.

The Principal Investigator, Eric Jacques, Ph.D., P.Eng., is an Assistant Professor in the Structural Engineering & Materials Group in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is also the Director of the Shock Tube Research Facility, equipped with a large-scale gas-detonation blast simulator, focused on the study of structural and non-structural components subject to extreme blast loads. This unique facility fosters collaborative high strain rate blast research in an on-campus environment tightly integrated with faculty from Virginia Tech and elsewhere in the country.

Meet the Team

Researchers

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Ali Muhammad

Fullbright Scholar

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Jalen Johnson

New Horizons Fellow. N.C. A&T Grad

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Tofail Ahmed

Ph.D. Student

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Lucas Arentsen

Visiting Scholar

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Man Xu

Visiting Scholar

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Bhavin Zaveri

Secure Design Engineer

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Colton Keene

Secure Design Engineer

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Erica Inmacolato

Staff Engineer

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Luis Hernandez

MAOP Scholar

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Zach Boykin

REU Scholar

Recent Publications

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High-Strain-Rate Response of Reinforced Concrete Lap-Spliced Beams

The experimental behavior of lap-spliced reinforced concrete beams subjected to high strain rates on the order of 1.0 $s^{-1}$ was …

Behavior of Structural Insulated Panels Subjected to Short-Term Axial Loads

Structural insulated panels, commonly known as SIPs, constitute a panelized building system composed of external facer panels, such as …

Bond-slip modelling of reinforced concrete lap splices subjected to low and high strain rates

This paper presents an analytical model developed to predict the flexural load-deformation behavior of reinforced concrete members …

High strain rate bond characteristics of reinforced concrete beam-ends

Flexural beam-end tests were conducted to characterize the effect of high strain rates on reinforcement bond in concrete. A total of 14 …

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