Mohammed Rayhani is among six Carleton researchers to receive funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund. The fund is designed to help universities attract and retain the very best of today’s and tomorrow’s researchers at a time of intense international competition.
The total amount of money to be received by Carleton researchers is nearly $2 million. The Leaders Opportunity Fund will help Carleton acquire infrastructure for research faculty to undertake cutting-edge research. It will also help Carleton create competitive packages of research support in the form of infrastructure and a portion of the operating and maintenance costs from the CFI, coupled with direct research costs from partner organizations.
Rayhani will receive support for a proposed earthquake simulator facility with network interface capabilities for collaborative earthquake and vibration research. By creating a device that can reproduce the earthquake ground-shaking loading, seismic tests of large-sized soil-structure models, such as high-rise building, bridges and other critical infrastructure, can be performed.
