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Description
2.1 Project Abstract
The United States transportation infrastructure is critical to our nation's economy and way of life.
Transportation structures such as bridges and tunnels are essential parts of this infrastructure and they
are vulnerable to closure due to damage from high intensity fires. The objective of this project is to
provide new technologies, new uses for existing technologies, and validate usage of existing
technologies toward making our transportation structures less vulnerable to high intensity fires. The
project will have three phases.
Phase 1 is the focus of this proposal and its goal is to lay the ground work for Phases 2 and 3 by studying
and reporting the impact of high intensity fires on transportation structures, surveying existing fire
protection capabilities, identifying deficiencies or gaps in current protection methods, and identifying
research that needs to be completed in Phase 2.
During Phase 2, experimental tests will be conducted to evaluate existing and new materials and
candidate solutions may be field deployed. Ground work for Phase 3 will also be accomplished during
Phase 2.
Phase 3 will be culmination of the project and will lead to the development of design guidelines and
design software forming the foundation of a start-up firm or center for fire hazard mitigation of
transportation structures.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 2/22/10 → 9/21/11 |
Funding
- National Institute for Hometown Security: $130,000.00
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