research overview
- Prof. Torres-Machi’s research seeks to enhance the condition and resilience of transportation infrastructure by developing data-driven and cost-effective methodologies to optimize the management of civil infrastructure.
- Contact Info
Torres-Machi, Cristina
Positions
- Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering and Applied Science
- Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Infrastructure asset management, sustainability and resilience applied to transportation infrastructure, decision-making and optimization for infrastructure management
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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Biobased Alternative Binders from Agar for Civil Engineering Applications: Thermal, Biodeterioration, and Moisture Sorption Properties.
RILEM Bookseries.
665-675.
2023
- Correcting the Fallacy in Best-Value Competitive Procurements for Design-Build Highway Projects 2022
- How Are Sustainability Criteria Included in the Public Procurement Process?. 253-262. 2021
- Socio-economic evaluation of urban pavement networks 2017
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Biobased Alternative Binders from Agar for Civil Engineering Applications: Thermal, Biodeterioration, and Moisture Sorption Properties.
RILEM Bookseries.
665-675.
2023
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conference proceeding
- ASCE’s Response to the Pandemic: Execution of a Remote ExCEEd Teaching Workshop 2022
- Work in Progress: The Strategic Importance of Data Science in Civil Engineering: Encouraging Interest in the Next Generation 2022
- Exploring the Capabilities of Optical Satellite Imagery in Evaluating Pavement Condition. 108-115. 2022
- A Proposed Framework for the Integrated Management of Municipal Infrastructure. 846-855. 2020
- Local Calibration of Stiffness Modulus for Full-Depth Reclamation Design. 255-262. 2019
- Belief and Basic Evidence Theory for Combining Expert Seismic Risk Assessments 2018
- Design and Feasibility Analysis of an Urban Pavement Management System for the City of Valencia, Spain. 476-485. 2018
- Evaluating Innovative Pavement Sustainability Tools for Pavement Management 2017
- Development of an Urban Pavement Management System 2017
- Field Monitoring and Analysis of the Early Performance of Unbonded Concrete Overlay Using Strain Gauge Readings 2017
- Cross-Asset Management for Transportation Infrastructure Systems 2017
- Procurement and Delivery Methods Applied to Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance: An International Review 2016
- Desarrollo de un Sistema de Gestión de Pavimentos Urbanos 2016
- Análisis de los Procesos de Licitación Pública del Sector de la Construcción en el Perú 2016
- Planificación y Control de Obras de Ingeniería Civil en Perú: Estado Actual y Propuestas de Mejora 2016
- ACQUISITION OF COMPETENCES IN A MASTER DEGREE IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 718-727. 2016
- INTEGRATION OF TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES ACQUISITION IN A MASTER COURSE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 621-627. 2016
- Incorporating Sustainability into Pavement Asset Management: Application to an Urban Network 2016
- COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPLOYABILITY BETWEEN SPANISH AND FRENCH STUDENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. INTED proceedings. 5060-5067. 2015
- TEACHING OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. INTED proceedings. 4971-4976. 2015
- Optimizacion heuristica para la gestion de infraestructuras: Aplicacion a una red de pavimentos urbanos en Chile 2014
- Sustainable pavement management: How to integrate economic, technical and environmental aspects in decision-making 2014
- Application of simple and hybrid local search heuristics for the long-term optimization of pavement maintenance strategies at the network level 2014
- Heuristic Optimization Model for Infrastructure Asset Management. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 300-309. 2013
- Modelo de optimizacion para la gestion del mantenimiento de una infraestructura de edificacion 2013
- A COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS ADAPTED TO ABET'S ACCREDITATION. INTED proceedings. 6554-6561. 2013
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Impact of the economic crisis in construction: a perspective from graduate students.
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences.
640-645.
2013
- Optimization and prioritization methods for pavement network management 2013
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Integración de investigación y docencia de posgrado a través del diseño eficiente de estructuras.
Modelling in Science Education and Learning.
89-89.
2013
- Analyzing the potential application of the earned value management (EVM) in the Spanish construction industry - An initial review of the dataset 2012
- Enabling implementation of earned value management in the Spanish construction industry 2012
- Habilidades demandadas por el mercado laboral para los profesionales de la construccion 2012
- La gestion de proyectos en las empresas constructoras: estado del arte y tendencias actuales 2012
- A proposed methodology for studying the potential application of earned value management in construction projects in Spain 2012
- El estudio de caso como estrategia didactica y de coordinacion de competencias entre asignaturas de un posgrado de gestion en ingenieria civil 2012
- Excelencia e innovacion en el proceso de aprendizaje del proceso proyecto-construccion en la ingenieria civil 2012
- GAPS THAT IMPEDE CONSTRUCTION GRADUATES ENTERING THE SPANISH LABOUR MARKET. INTED proceedings. 5616-5625. 2012
- MOTIVATION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A MASTER DEGREE IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 5626-5633. 2012
- An evaluation of an international academic exchange programme in construction management 2011
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journal article
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Impacts of Increased Prediction Accuracy in Management Decisions: A Study of Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2024
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Green Public Procurement in Civil Infrastructure Construction: Current Performance and Main Project Characteristics.
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
2023
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Quantifying the Value of Satellite-Based Pavement Monitoring in Partially Observable Stochastic Environments.
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
2023
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Machine learning to enhance the management of highway pavements and bridges.
Infrastructure Asset Management.
2023
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Deterioration of Flexible Pavements Induced by Flooding: Case Study Using Stochastic Monte Carlo Simulations in Discrete-Time Markov Chains.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2023
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Deep learning for estimating pavement roughness using synthetic aperture radar data.
Automation in Construction.
2022
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Assessing social performance of construction companies in public-works procurement: Data envelopment analysis based on the benefit of the doubt approach.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review.
2022
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Development of a Protocol for Engineering Applications of Evidence Theory.
ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
2022
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A fuzzy logic expert system for selecting optimal and sustainable life cycle maintenance and rehabilitation strategies for road pavements.
The International Journal of Pavement Engineering.
425-437.
2022
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Combined evidence model to enhance pavement condition prediction from highly uncertain sensor data.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety.
2022
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Input Parameters for the Mechanistic-Empirical Design of Full-Depth Reclamation Projects.
Transportation Research Record.
384-396.
2021
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Challenges in Engineering Estimates for Best Value Design Build Highway Projects.
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
2021
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Importance of Noncost Criteria Weighing in Best-Value Design-Build US Highway Projects.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2021
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Structured Approach for Best-Value Evaluation Criteria: US Design-Build Highway Procurement (vol 36, 04020086, 2020).
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2021
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Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting the Pavement International Roughness Index.
Transportation Research Record.
226-237.
2021
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Human-induced or natural hazard? Factors influencing perceptions of actions to be taken in response to induced seismicity.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
2021
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Structured Approach for Best-Value Evaluation Criteria: US Design-Build Highway Procurement.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2020
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Improving cost performance in design-bid-build road projects by mapping the reasons for cost overruns into the project phases.
Revista de la Construcción.
334-345.
2020
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Social Indicators to Inform Community Evacuation Modeling and Planning.
ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
2020
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Exploring earned value management in the Spanish construction industry as a pathway to competitive advantage.
The International Journal of Construction Management.
1-12.
2020
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Dempster-Shafer Theory applications in post-seismic structural damage and social vulnerability assessment.
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
201-213.
2020
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Sustainability Evaluation of Pavement Technologies through Multicriteria Decision Techniques.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2019
- Representing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 2019
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Representing uncertainty in natural hazard risk assessment with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) theory.
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
137-151.
2019
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Sustainable Management Framework for Transportation Assets: Application to Urban Pavement Networks.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.
4095-4106.
2018
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Impact of environmental assessment and budgetary restrictions in pavement maintenance decisions: Application to an urban network.
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
192-204.
2018
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Application of Markov chains and Monte Carlo simulations for developing pavement performance models for urban network management.
Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance.
1169-1181.
2018
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Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry.
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.
2017
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Implementation of Earned Value Management in Unit-Price Payment Contracts.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2017
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Towards a sustainable optimization of pavement maintenance programs under budgetary restrictions.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
90-102.
2017
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OPTIMAL PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS BASED ON A HYBRID GREEDY RANDOMIZED ADAPTIVE SEARCH PROCEDURE ALGORITHM.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management.
540-550.
2016
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Sustainable Pavement Management Integrating Economic, Technical, and Environmental Aspects in Decision Making.
Transportation Research Record.
56-63.
2015
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Current models and practices of economic and environmental evaluation for sustainable network-level pavement management.
Revista de la Construcción.
49-56.
2014
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An Iterative Approach for the Optimization of Pavement Maintenance Management at the Network Level.
The Scientific World Journal.
2014
- Optimization of high-performance concrete structures by variable neighborhood search. International Journal of Civil Engineering. 90-99. 2013
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Employability of Graduate Students in Construction Management.
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.
163-170.
2013
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Impacts of Increased Prediction Accuracy in Management Decisions: A Study of Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2024
Teaching
courses taught
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AREN 4506 - Pre-construction Estimating and Scheduling
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
Covers project management estimating and scheduling methods with an emphasis on the techniques used to create pre-construction estimates and schedules for architectural and civil engineering projects. -
CVEN 3227 - Probability, Statistics and Decision
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Introduces uncertainty based analysis concepts and applications in the planning and design of civil engineering systems emphasizing probabilistic, statistics, and design concepts and methods. -
CVEN 3602 - Transportation Systems
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Introduces the principles of transportation systems with a focus on highway engineering and traffic analysis. Provides the basic skill set that will allow students to solve transportation problems related with highway design and traffic control and analysis. Provides an introduction to technology, operating characteristics, and relative merits of highway, airway, waterway, railroad, pipeline, and convey or transportation systems. -
CVEN 5446 - Infrastructure Asset Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2023
Introduces a framework that combines engineering principles with economic theory to facilitate a more organized and logical approach to decision-making in the management of infrastructure. Topics covered include asset valuation, modeling infrastructure deterioration, life-cycle cost analysis, and optimization. Although the concepts introduced in this course are applicable to different infrastructure systems, especial emphasis will be given to transportation projects. -
CVEN 5836 - Special Topics for Seniors/Grads
Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. -
CVEN 6956 - Master's Thesis
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Pontificia Univ Catolica De Chile (Chile) 2015
- Ph.D., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2015
- M.S., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2012
- B.S., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2008
International Activities
geographic focus
- Canada Country
- Chile Country
- Netherlands Country
- Spain Country