Research

CASC is a research group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Brigham Young University. Funding for CASC is provided through the Utah Centers of Excellence program. The primary efforts of CASC are focussed on the investigating, developing, and testing of advanced structural composites as well as the licensing of patented technologies, such as the IsoTruss. The IsoTruss is a revolutionary, patented (U.S. Patent #5,921,048), lightweight, three-dimensional structural form that takes advantage of the highly directional properties of advanced composite materials. This extremely efficient structure has the potential to enhance innumerable applications ranging from aerospace structures to mechanical systems to sporting equipment to civil infrastructure.

This page is devoted to showing some of the student research being performed at BYU under contract from Sandia National Laboratories. BYU has historically played a major role in this project since its conception over 10 years ago. CUBIT research has focused on all quadrilateral and all hexahedral meshing, since they yield better analysis/speed results. In addition to the general demand for hexahedral elements, this work was begun to supply advanced hex and quad meshing for Sandia's transient solid dynamics analysis codes that have been optimized to run with only these (hex and quad) element types.

The EMRL consists of three faculty members, ten full-time research associates, an office manager, and 35 graduate and undergraduate students. The EMRL creates state of the art environmental modeling software specializing in ground water, watershed, and surface water modeling. This software is being used by over 9,000 consulting firms, universities and government agencies in over 90 countries.

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