Engineers to develop wireless monitoring of bridges

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 01/15/2009 - 10:19am

The nation's aging highway bridges could become safer structures using state-of-the-art wireless monitoring and inspection systems being developed through a multi-million-dollar grant to an engineering team from The University of Texas at Austin, National Instruments and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, an engineering firm based in Northbrook, Ill.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently awarded [...]


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