Q1 Project 2: Electrified Roadways

January ’25 Updates

Project leads: Khurram Afridi, Cornell University, & Marv Halling, Utah State University 

Events & Outreach:

• IEEE ECE in Phoenix
  • Hongjie’s students
• ASC2024 conference
  • 2 posters presented summarizing Year 4 research
• ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)
  • Paper presentation: K. Teuscher, D. Etta, K.K. Afridi and N. Roberts, “Thermal Analysis of Capacitive Charging Pads for Electrified Roadways.”
  • Portland, OR, November 2024

Publications:

• A Comprehensive Study on Long-Term Durability of Protective Epoxy Coatings for Electrified Roadways 
  • Md Tareq Hassan, Samiul Alum, and Juhyeoung Lee
  • https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=mae_facpub 

Works in Progress:

• Comprehensive review of the economic & environmental impacts and potential risks associated with electrified road systems
  • Informing ASPIRE’s new Cost Modeling Tool for electrified roadways
• 3 patent disclosures filed
• Ongoing materials testing for 4 different mixes of ECC using varying levels of crumb rubber and fly ash
• Hipot testing on new material
• Constructed panel forms and developing instrumentation plans for the design, fabrication, and characterization of structural scale monolithic concrete panels with embedded DWPT system
• Successful fabrication of the pavement slab for testing with the MMLS system and installation of strain gauges and fiber optics, developing a numerical model
• Tracking the successful integration of contact modeling methods into the in-house-developed analysis tool to simulate different bonding conditions at the pavement-CU interfaces
• Achieve comparative results between the in-house FE tool under development, traditional commercial FE software, and experimental data
• Continued testing of the 230-kW receiver coil, core, and shielding structure
• Evaluated and demonstrated feasibility and rationale for the successful development of data-driven LPV-MPC and application to EV control
  • Began development of nonlinear and linear parameter-varying (LPV) model describing the dynamics of coil-vehicle misalignments