On Wednesday January, 9, 2013, AAAEA-IL hosted a technical dinner seminar at the University of Illinois Chicago Camous. The focus of the seminar was a presentaion on \u201cUnderwater Bridge Inspecion\u201d by Nick Triandafilou P.E., S.E., and Brian Dilworth P.E., both experienced bridge and marine structure inspectors and designers, from Collins Engineers, Inc. The presentaion emphasized how bridge inspecion is critical to maintaining our naion’s infrastructure and ensuring public safety on our highway systems. The recent collapse of the I35
\nBridge in Minneapolis has brought an increased focus to the importance of bridge inspecion. Inspecing the
\nunderwater porions of bridge piers is an integral part of the bridge inspecion program as many structural and
\nstability related deficiencies can be hidden below water. In fact, the most common cause of bridge failures in
\nthe United States is scour, in which the channel bottom material below a bridge pier washes away and results
\nin the pier becoming unstable. This presentaion discussed the methods currently being used to inspect and
\nmonitor the underwater porions of our naion’s bridges.
\nFor informaion regarding future technical presentaions and conferences offering professional development
\ncredit, or for individuals or companies interested in presening at one of the AAAEA events,
\nplease contact Kevin Mesyef at educaion@aaaea.org.<\/p>\n
Best Regards, \u201cUnderwater Bridge Inspection\u201d by Nick Triandafilou P.E., S.E. and Brian Dilworth P.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[47,78],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminar","tag-chicago","tag-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaaea.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKevin Mesyef<\/em>
\nEducaion Committee Chair<\/em>
\nAAAEA-IL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"