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Dr. David Byers, P.E.

Dr. David Byers, P.E.

Dr. Byers' Resume as an Adobe Acrobat file.
(3 pages - 18K)

Project Manager
HNTB Corporation

Education

  • Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of Kansas, 1999
  • M.S. Civil Engineering, The University of Kansas, 1997
  • B.S. Architectural Engineering, The University of Kansas, 1987

Research Interests
Long Span Bridges, Cable-Stayed bridge systems, Conventional Steel and Concrete Bridge Systems, Finite Element Analysis, Effective Slab Width Development.


Professional Registration

P.E.: Missouri, Kansas and Mississippi.


Professional Memberships
  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineers.

Awards and Honors
  • Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
  • Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society

Representative Publications
  • D.D. Byers and S.L. McCabe, "Modified Effective Slab Width for Composite Cable-Stayed Bridges", Proceedings International Bridge Conference, Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, June, 1999
  • D.D. Byers, S.T. Hague, D.M. Rogowski and S.L. McCabe, "Comparison of Slab Participation: Assumed for Design vs. FEA", Proceedings of the IABSE Conference on Cable-Stayed Bridges - Past, Present and Future, June, 1999
  • D.D. Byers, "Evaluation of Effective Slab Width for Composite Cable-Stayed Bridge Design", Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Kansas, 1999
  • D.D. Byers and S.L. McCabe, "Effective Slab Width for Composite Cable-Stayed Bridges Using Finite Elements", Proceedings of the Structures Congress XV, American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1997
  • D.D. Byers, "Consideration of Time-Dependent Forces in Composite Cable-Stayed Bridges", Master of Science Thesis, The University of Kansas, January, 1997
  • D.D. Byers and S.L. McCabe, "Slab Participation for Axial Forces in Composite Cable-Stayed Bridges", Proceedings of the Fourth National Workshop on Bridge Research in Progress, National Science Foundation, June, 1996