{"id":21038,"date":"2015-05-20T20:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21038"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:06:17","slug":"in-the-news-department-of-homeland-security-features-uconns-concrete-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/05\/in-the-news-department-of-homeland-security-features-uconns-concrete-research\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Department of Homeland Security Features UConn&#8217;s Concrete Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Engineering researchers Arash Zaghi, Kay Wille and Kevin Zmetra have been working on the potential of ultra-high strength concrete for structure repair. The Department of Homeland Security, which awarded Zmetra a Security Science and Technology (S&amp;T) Directorate Career Development Grant,\u00a0features their work on its news website.\u00a0From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The method uses UHSC to repair corroded steel girders, which are the beams that support the bridge. The damage is caused by years of exposure to water and de-icing road salt commonly used during winter. Thus far, test results show this novel repair method has some real advantages:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>Girders repaired with UHSC are 25 percent stronger than they were before they were damaged.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>Minimal surface preparation (e.g., sanding, lead abatement) is required, which saves time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>Jacking the entire bridge structure, which typically accounts for 70 percent of project costs, is not required.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>The need for road or lane closures is significantly reduced because the bridge can be repaired while it\u2019s in service.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/science-and-technology\/innovating-bridge-repair\">full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some concrete results from UConn researchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":23932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 10:21:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/23932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}