{"id":6478,"date":"2022-12-20T20:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/2022\/12\/market-growth-highlights-insider-december-22-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:15:39","slug":"market-growth-highlights-insider-december-22-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/market-growth-highlights-insider-december-22-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Growth Highlights – Insider – December 22, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
ACMA Council Draws Great Attendance at its FRP Design Workshop<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Transportation Structures Council hosted the <\/span>Design of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites Bridges<\/span><\/b> at the <\/span>2022 International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference, Miami, FL, <\/span>Wednesday, December 7, 2022, which was attended by 75 engineers.\u202f <\/span>The objectives of this workshop were to familiarize attendees with the background and code provisions related to the design of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites bridges and to provide cutting-edge material and product advancements to design and specify FRP composites products that can assist attendees when building new composites bridges for ABC applications. <\/span>For a review of the program, see below.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Section 1 \u2013 Design of FRP Bridge Tub Girders Using AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaker:\u202f Research & Testing & Development: Bill Davids, PhD, PE, University of Maine; Design: Ken Sweeney, PE, ENV-SP, President, Anthony Diba, Design Engineer, AIT Bridges<\/p>\n Section 2 – Lightweight, Prefabricated Cantilever Sidewalks for Shared Use Paths on Vehicle Bridges<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaker:\u202f Scott Reeve, Creative Composites Group; Gregg Blaszak, PE, Coastline Composites<\/p>\n Section 3 – Design & Engineering Methodology for InfraCore\u00ae FRP Vehicular Bridges<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaker: Teodor Gheorghe, InfraCore Company<\/p>\n Section 4 \u2013 Overview of FRP Bridge Application Case Histories<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaker: John Busel, FACI, ACMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ACMA Council Draws Great Attendance at its FRP Design Workshop\u00a0 The Transportation Structures Council hosted the Design of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer … <\/p>\n