The National Transit Safety Board has issued a warning for bridges in New York and New Jersey that need to be checked.
The report which lists 68 bridges, does not suggest these are in danger of collapsing but need to be checked for safety measures. Some of the bridges include the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and George Washington Bridge.
The George Washington University has experts available who can provide insight on this warning. If you would like to schedule an interview, please contact Katelyn Deckelbaum, [email protected].
Sameh S. Badie is a professor of civil and environmental engineering. Badie conducts research on reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, with applications on buildings and highway bridges. His research includes theoretical and experimental investigation. Badie has a significant amount of experience developing innovative prestressed, precast, concrete deck panel systems for highway bridges. His experimental experience includes testing full-scale concrete components, such as deck panel systems and prestressed concrete girders.
Kim Roddis is a professor emerita of civil and environmental engineering and a registered professional engineer who has experience in heavy industrial and general commercial building design, as well as in bridge design. As a structural engineer, her expertise and research interests include design, fabrication, and construction processes; structural applications of artificial intelligence and computer-aided design; web-enhanced teaching; fatigue and fracture in bridges; frame stability; and seismic steel connections. She is recognized nationally as an expert in distortion-induced fatigue of steel highway bridges and internationally as an expert on the application of artificial intelligence and advanced computing methods to civil engineering problem solving.
Joseph Barbera is an associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering. Through the GW Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, Barbera conducts research across a wide range of topics in emergency management, risk management, and business continuity. Current and recent research focuses upon large-scale incident (disaster) management, hazard risk assessments, public health hazard risk reduction, collapsed-structure search strategies, and confined space medical interventions.
Sanjay Jain is an associate industry professor in the department of decision sciences. His research interests are in the development and application of decision science techniques to complex systems with current focus on smart manufacturing, supply chains and project management. Jain can discuss the risk assessment and mitigation angle on this story.
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