The Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering
at the University of Delaware

Papers and Presentations

• 2006 International Bridge Conference Posters

• Experimental Influence Lines for Bridge Evaluation, by Michael Chajes and Jasmeen Hirachan, 2005 New York City Bridge Conference.
  

• Steel Girder Fracture on Delaware's I-95 Bridge over the Brandywine River, Chajes, M.J., Mertz, D.R, Quiel, S., Roecker, H., and Milius, J., 2005 ASCE Structures Congress (April 20-24, 2005, New York, NY).
  • Paper
  • Presentation

• The UD Bridge Center: Meeting National Needs, by Prof. Dennis R. Mertz (March 4, 2005)

• LRFD short course presentations by Prof. Dennis R. Mertz (November 18-19, 2004, through UD Engineering Outreach)
  • Strut and Tie Model
  • Strut and Tie Model Design Example

• 2004 SSFNE Steel Bridge Forum (Boxborough, MA, November 2004):
  Hot Topics in Steel Bridge Design: Fracture-critical Members & Live-load Deflection Criteria (Presentation by Prof. Dennis R. Mertz)

• IABMAS-04 Conference (Kyoto, Japan, October 2004)
  • Chacon-Chajes Presentation
  • Quinn Presentation
  • Video 1
  • Video 2
  • Video 3