June 9th-11th, University of Maine, Orono – Earlier this month, the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) hosted its first-ever Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites Repair Course for representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center. The participants represented various organizational positions and came from […]
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April 6th, 2026 – The University of Maine & US DOT ARPA-I (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Infrastructure) have embarked on a collaborative research project: X-BRIDGE (eXceptional Bridges through Innovative Design and Groundbreaking Engineering) This project – focused on designing bridges that can be deployed in half the time, at half the cost, and lasts […]
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Miami, FL – On December 7th-9th, 2022, TIDC traveled to the ABC International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference to participate in a half-day FRP Composite Girder workshop and support the AIT Composites booth on the expo floor. They traveled with a 5’x8’ bridge girder cross-section full-scale display which drew large crowds of State DOT Engineers. “There […]
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