Research Centers

Study the interactions between wind and bridges and highway structures using wind tunnel experiments, long term monitoring and CFD. Includes facilities, projects, and publications.

Develop, produce, and support a range of bridge design software. Also provide bridge-related courses and software training courses.

Develop an online information facility for the bridge engineering community from around the world. Offers a range of technical publications and related links.

Conduct basic and applied research. Projects include the monitoring of global and local structural properties of a large span prestressed concrete bridge.

Investigate a range of problems related to bridge engineering, with particular emphasis on yield-line analysis and reliability analysis of concrete bridges.

Provide bridge research news, staff in formation, publications of the group and post bridge ambient vibration testing data.

Research to develop and implement a bridge deck heating system that will eliminate preferential icing. Provides details of research, publications and events.

Initiative by the Federal Highway Administration to provide direction and funding to help State, county and local bridge owners incorporate innovative materials and materials technologies in their bridge projects.

Undertake a range of research in design, analysis, construction, maintenance and administration. Provides information on research, events, and publications.

Cooperation between academia, industry and government agencies to develop and implement new technologies related to bridge design and construction. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Develop technology that will allow the use of timber bridge components and systems to be used in portable or temporary bridge applications. Includes fact sheets and reports in pdf format.

Research program to provide the ideas for the use of wood as a structural material for highway bridges. Provides details of current research and publications. USDA Forest Service.