Andrew Loken

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)
WHIT 330H
(402) 417-4694
aloken2@unl.edu

Research Assistant Professor

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023
  • M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021
  • B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

  • Road safety structures
  • Bridge railings
  • Vehicle crash testing
  • Nonlinear finite element modeling with LS-DYNA
  • Concrete damage models

Research Profiles:

Courses Taught

  • CIVE 441: Steel Design 1

Honors and Awards

  • Transportation Research Board 2024 AKD20 Best Paper Award: Vehicle Collision Load Design Demands for Deck Overhangs with Parapet Railings
  • 2021 and 2023 Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow
  • International Road Federation Fellow

Selected Publications

  • Loken et al., Vehicle Collision Load Design Demands for Deck Overhangs with Parapet Railings, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2024.
  • Loken et al., Performance Case Study of Concrete Bridge Rail Post on Deck Overhang, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2023.
  • Steelman et al., NCHRP Research Report 1078: MASH Railing Load Requirements for Bridge Deck Overhang, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, D.C., 2023. 
  • Loken et al., Comparison of Modified Yield-Line and Punching Shear Capacities for Concrete Traffic Barriers and Bridge Rails, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2021

Recent Presentations

  • Vehicle Collision Load Design Demands for Deck Overhangs with Parapet Railings - TRB 2024 lectern session (AKD20)
  • Performance Case Study of Concrete Bridge Rail Post on Deck Overhang - TRB 2023 lectern session (AKD20)
  • Concrete Modeling Lessons with the Karagozian & Case and Continuous Surface Cap Models - TRB 2023 workshop (AKD20 computational mechanics subcommittee)
  • Recent Experiences in Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Structures - TRB 2021 summer meeting (AKD20 computational mechanics subcommittee)