Wilfrid Nixon
Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
wilfrid-nixon@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-5166
4121 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
Education:
- Ph.D., Engineering, Cambridge University, 1985
- B.A., Engineering, Cambridge University, 1981
Teaching Interests:
- Winter highway maintenance
- Ice engineering
- Mechanical properties of ice
Research:
- The optimal use of ice control chemicals in winter maintenance
- Determining methods to minimize risks due to weather forecasts in winter maintenance
- Information management in winter highway maintenance
- The impact of weather on surface transportation
- Mechanical behavior of ice, especially compression, fracture and fatigue of ice
- Processes involved in ice/structure interactions