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| Royce Floyd |
The Southern Plains Transportation Center Early
Career Development Program awarded up to two projects to teams of tenure-track
faculty from the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University
in Stillwater to solicit and develop new research opportunities to advance the
transportation systems in the state and the nation. The goal of the
program is to provide seed funding to promote collaboration between
tenure-track faculty members at OSU and OU and allow them to obtain additional
funding, publish joint papers, and cross-train students.
CEES assistant professor Royce Floyd in
partnership with Drs. Yongwei Shan (lead and OSU PI), Qiang "Joshua"
Li, and Phil Lewis from OSU received a one year grant for their proposal entitled
"Assessing the Impact of Climate on Bridge Deck Deterioration." The $25,200
grant is split evenly between OU and OSU. The project objective is to assess
the deterioration of bridge decks in Oklahoma by incorporating climate data
into current assessment strategies using integration and statistical analyses
of National Bridge Inventory and Oklahoma Mesonet data.
