A leading scholar on concrete sustainability and nanotechnology, Maria Konsta-Gdoutos, is the co-founder and Associate Director of UTA’s Center for Advanced Construction Materials (CACM). Three of her patents are on carbon nanotube and nanofiber reinforced concrete for structural applications with novel functionalities, e.g. smart concrete, thermoelectric concrete for anti/de-icing applications, and high modulus concrete for super tail buildings. Konsta-Gdoutos was awarded an NSF PIRE grant (#2230747) to study the development of mineralization pathways for large-scale CO2 sequestration; design of novel technologies for renewable electricity and power by engineering concrete’s nanostructured interfaces; advancement of new technologies to increase the use of waste materials/by-products and concrete’s reuse/recycling to promote circular economy.
In March 2023, Konsta-Gdoutos was awarded by DOT a $10M Tier 1 University Transportation Center "Center for Durable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure (DuRe-Transp)". Under her leadership as UTC Director, the Center will address for the next 5 years (2023-2028) critical areas of national importance for the civil engineering infrastructure in the strategic topics of Durability, Construction, and Finance. Konsta-Gdoutos will continue to advance the state of the art through her serving on ACI 241 – Nanotechnology of Concrete (Chair), 241-TG2 – Nanoscale Fiber Reinforced Concrete (Chair), 236 – Materials Science of Concrete; and RILEM Technical Committee – Carbon-based Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Cementitious Matrices. She also serves as the Associate Editor of the peer-review journals "Cement and Concrete Composites” by Elsevier, and “Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering” by American Society of Civil Engineers, (ASCE). She has been serving as the Executive Editor in Chief of the Springer International Journal “Frontiers in Structural and Civil Engineering” since 2013.
Research Description
1) Sustainable concrete
2) Dynamic, in situ Monitoring of Concrete Manufacturing – Sensing, Real Time Data acquisition and Smart Manufacturing using Data Mining, AI and Machine Learning
3) Performance-Based Design and Quality Control of Advanced Cementitious Composites and Nanocomposites
4) Sustainable Asphalt and Cement Concrete Materials using Agricultural and Industrial Waste Byproducts and Fibers
6) Renewable Electricity Generation for Pavement ElectrificationNext Generation Thermoactive Nanoscale Reinforced Concrete for Anti/De-icing Applications
7) Adaptive Rheology of Advanced Cementitious Materials for Additive Manufacturing
8) Sensing, Imaging and Evaluation of Structural and Non-Structural PropertiesResilient and Durable Coatings and Overlays for Surface Transportation Infrastructure
9) Microstructure and structural performance of advanced nano-engineered cement-based composites
10) Electrochemical, and surface and interface phenomena at all scales, with focus on enhancing the durability of engineered structural materials and infrastructure