Research

Current Research Grants & Contracts
•	Steel Bridge System
•	Development of a Design Guideline for Phase Construction of Steel Bridges
•	Design, Construction, Testing and Development of Design Specifications for High Performance Steel Bridges
•	Short Span Steel Bridge System/Inverted Steel Box
•	Monitoring of Dodge Street Over I-480 Bridge
•	Innovative Bridge Construction Program - 2002 Project/Sprague Street
•	Development of Systematic Field Testing, Monitoring & Security
•	Steel Box System (Monitoring of N-2 over I-480 Bridge/Grand Island)
•	Valcraft Testing
•	Development of Design Tools for Steel Bridges
•	Restricted Zone Requirements for Superpave Mixes
•	Material Selection & Design Consideration for Moisture Damage

Completed Research Grants & Contracts
•	Full Scale Testing of High Performance Steel Bridge Girders
•	Steel Bridge System with Delayed Composite Action: Concept Identification
•	Economic Substructures for Steel Bridges
•	High Performance Steel Bridge Research and Construction in Nebraska; Phase I
•	High Performance Steel Bridge Research and Construction in Nebraska; Phase II
•	U.S.-Japan Cooperative Work on Earthquake Engineering: Development of Detail and Design Criteria for Steel Beam to Concrete Filled Tube Column Connections in Seismic Regions
•	Developing Design Criteria for Required Tension Development and Tension Splice Length for Reinforcing Bars Embedded in High Strength Concrete
•	Acquisition of Dynamic Testing Equipment
•	The Use of Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) in the Prestressed Concrete Technology
•	Course on Design of Steel Bridges; Part 1 and 2
•	Coupling of an Advanced Boundary Element Method with the Finite Element Method for 3-D Wave Propagation and Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis in the Direct Time Domain

NaBRO Sponsored Match
•	Quantitative Damage Assessment of Concrete by Diffuse Ultrasonic Methods