Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

ISU Professors Discuss Safety of Bridges in Des Moines Register, USA Today

 

Three Iowa State University structural engineering professors have been asked to weigh in on the safety of bridges and infrastructure in the United States following the collapse Wednesday of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis.

Terry Wipf, professor of structural engineering and director of the Iowa State University Bridge Engineering Center, discusses the economic issues affecting the maintenance of America's bridges in a USA Today article. Read Wipf's comments in the article at the USA Today's Web site (see the "A Call for Spending" section).

Brent Phares, adjunct assistant professor of structural engineering and associate director of the Iowa State Unviersity Bridge Engineering Center, talks about the safety of Iowa's bridges in two Des Moines Register articles. See Phares' comments in these articles:

• Q&A: 'Deficient' Bridges Can Still be Safe
• 10 Iowa I-80 Bridges May Need Replacing
  

Phares also discusses the Bridge Engineering Center's research efforts for making bridges safer in a Discovery Channel article. Read more online at the Discovery News Web site.

The Bridge Engineering Center is affiliated with the Center for Transportation Research and Education.

Lowell Greimann, professor emeritus, was interviewed on National Public Radio's Science Friday. Read more about this in an Ames Tribune article.

 

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