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Bright Lights
Program Tour
Fourth through eighth grade students visited the UNL-NaBRO structures
Laboratory on July 29, 1999 and were given a tour of the lab by NaBRO
Director, Dr. Atorod Azizinamini and NaBRO Assistant Director, Dr.
Dimitri Rizos. The students were part of the 1999 Bright
Lights program.
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| Dr. Azizi gives a tour of the UNL-NaBRO Structures laboratory
to 4th and 5th grade Bright Lights students and discusses the
research performed in the lab. |
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| Dr. Azizi shows the test setup for the positive bending of
a composite HPS bridge girder. |
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| Dr. Rizos demonstrates to 6th-8th grade Bright Lights students
basic structural mechanics and the importance of knowing how
a material behaves. |
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| John Hudgens, Instrument Maker for the College of Engineering
and Technology at UNL, monitors the testing of a tensile steel
specimen. |
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| Dr. Rizos shows how the behavior of the steel can be shown
graphically from the tensile test. |
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| John points out the reduction in diameter of the steel specimen. |
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| The actual steel specimen under tension. |
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| Dr. Rizos discusses the important aspects of the research
conducted on one of the full-scale concrete filled tube connection
specimens. |
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