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Updates & Features
ICMP Gets SHRP2 Contract to Research NDE of Bridge Decks
An important research contract to audit NDE technologies and evaluate their capabilities and limitations was awarded to CAIT’s Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program (ICMP) In March. The $750,000 grant is from the National Academies, National Academy of Sciences, Strategic Highway Research Program II (SHRP2).
The biggest problems bridge engineers face are associated with bridge deck deterioration. With the ever-increasing need to stretch funds available to fix our aging infrastructure, it is more important than ever that highway agencies be able to accurately evaluate bridge deck condition.
Senior NDE Researcher Romero Joins ICMP Team
Francisco Romero joined CAIT’s Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program (ICMP) in December 2008 as a senior bridge research engineer. Romero is a civil engineer with over 15 years of extensive ground penetrating radar (GPR) experience in a broad variety of applications.
His primary specialty is using GPR—along with other geophysical and NDT/NDE methods—to help facility owners, engineering service providers, DOTs, and other government agencies assess the quality of pavements, reinforced concrete structures, and bridge decks as well as accurately map subsurface utilities and buried structures during the various stages of planning, design, and construction.