The Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center at the University of Maine (TIDC) held its annual conference at the Wells Conference Center on the UMaine campus August 8th through 10th. This event brought together presenters from Academia, Industry, and State & Municipal Government to discuss deploying innovative transportation research findings from the lab to the field including […]
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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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Posted 2/24/2021 MaineDOT partnered with UMaine and UMass Lowell researchers to live-load test the innovative bridge system to obtain base-line measurements in the field. These measurements will help the researchers obtain data from the beginning of the bridges life, something that technology has not allowed for past bridge maintenance practices. TIDC researchers at the University […]
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