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Guice, Leslie K., Ph.D., P. E.

Vice-President of Research & Development, Director of Information Technology, and Professor of Civil Engineering

Degrees

Contact Info

Office: 1629 Wyly Tower
Email: guice@latech.edu
Phone: (318) 257-3056
Home Page: http://www.latech.edu/~guice

Areas of Specialization

• Reinforced concrete
• Plastic materials
• Structural Dynamics
• Underground infrastructure
• Trenchless pipeline rehabilitation

Research Areas/Interests

•  LEQSF, "Development of a Preliminary Sanitary Sewer Management System"; with Dr. N.D. Pumphrey; June 1995-June 1997.
• City of Baton Rouge, "Tests for Evaluating Fluid Migration in the Annular Space of Lined Piping Systems," with Dr. R. Bakeer; December 1995-July 1997.
• Inliner USA, Inc., "Experimental Program for Evaluating InLiner USA Pipe Installed in Host Pipes," with Dr. W. T. Straughan; Aug 1995-March 1996.
• Evaluation of a Fail-Safe Retrievable Microtunneling System; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; October 1994-May 1995.
• Evaluation of Different Epoxy Resin Systems in CIPP Applications; Shell Development Co; March 1993-June 1994.
• Evaluation of Methods and Materials to Install and Rehabilitate Underground Utilities. Sponsored by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program, WES, Vicksburg, Mississippi; January 1992.
• Contract through the Louisiana Transportation Research Center and Federal Highway Administration entitled "Traffic Accident Simulation Using Interactive Computer Graphics"; with D.O. Anderson; August 1987-July 1990.
• Contract through an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement with U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station investigating reinforced concrete slabs under static and dynamic loadings; principal investigator; May 1983-May 1987.
• Contract with U.S. Army Engineers for modifying and developing computer codes for investigating the effects of weapons on various structures; principal investigator; assisted by graduate students; March-August 1986.
• Contract with U.S. Army Engineers entitled "Three-Dimensional Finite Element Mesh Generator"; principal investigator; July 1981-January 1982.
• Contract through an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement with U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station entitled "Computer-Aided Graphics for Engineers"; July-August 1979.
• Grant through Federal Highway Administration's Research Fellowship Program entitled "Analysis of Vehicle Dynamic Forces," for Chris Cobb to work with FHWA's truck shaker platform at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center; July 1988-June 1989.

Publications

•  Omara, A.A., Guice, L.K., Straughan, W.T., Akl, F.A., "Buckling Models of Thin Circular Pipes Encased in Rigid Cavity," ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, December 1997.
• Guice, L.K., Straughan, W.T., Norris, C.R., Bennett, R. D., and Iseley, D.T., "TTC Report on Long-Term Structural Behavior of Pipeline Rehabilitation Systems - Closure," No-Dig Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1996.
• Malik, O., Akl, F.A., and Guice, L.K., "Analysis of a Steel Pipe Joint for Trenchless Construction," Developments in Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, Vol. 18, SECTAM XVIII, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, pp. 575-586, April 1996.
• Staughan, W. T., Guice, L. K., and Mal-Duraipandian, C., "Long-Term Structural Behavior of Pipeline Rehabilitation Systems," ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, December 1995.
• Li, J.Y., and Guice, L.K., "Buckling of an Encased Elliptic Thin Ring," ASCE Engineering Mechanics Journal, December, 1995.
• Bennet, R. D., Guice, L. K., and Stahlie, K., "Guidelines for Trenchless Technology: Cured-In-Place (CIPP), Fold-and-Formed Pipe (FFP), Mini-Horizontal Directional Drilling (Mini-HDD), and Microtunnelling," Technical Report CPAR-GL-95-2, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, September, 1995.
• Guice, L.K., Straughan, W.T., Norris, C.R., and Bennett, R.D., "Long-Term Structural Behavior of Pipeline Rehabilitation Systems," Task Report for the Construction Productivity Advancement Research Project, U.S. Army Engineers and Trenchless Technology Center, August 1994.
• Guice, L.K., and Norris, C., "Evaluation of Long-Term Behavior of CIPP and F&F Pipe," Proceedings of the 67th Water Environment Federation Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, October 1994.
• Guice, L.K., and Li, J.Y., "Buckling Models and Influencing Factors for Pipe Rehabilitation Design," Proceedings of the North American NO-DIG '94, Dallas, Texas, April 1994 (invited).
• Guice, L.K., Norris, C., Iseley, D.T., and Najafi, M., "Description of Long-Term Hydrostatic Pressure Testing of Pipeline Rehabilitation Materials," Proceedings of The Water Environment Federation Conference on Collection Systems: Operation and Maintenance, June 1993.
• Guice, L.K., and Norris, C., "Long-Term Hydrostatic Pressure Testing of Pipe Relining Systems," Proceedings of Trenchless Technology: An Advanced Technical Seminar, Trenchless Technology Center, Ruston, Louisiana, January 1993.
• Anderson, D.O., Guice, L.K., and Rocke, P.L., "Traffic Accident Simulation Using Interactive Computer Graphics Final Report," Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, 1992.

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