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LTU Engineering College Dean Nabil Grace (with microphone) explains the bridge beam test to officials of the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
SOUTHFIELD–Lawrence Technological University shared its advanced infrastructure research capabilities with the people who run one of the world’s most iconic bridges Thursday.
With the Grace CIMR fire chamber in the background. LTU Engineeirng Dean and Vice President for Research Nabil Grace explains the center’s capabilities to officials of the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
Four of the six members of the Mackinac Bridge Authority board and other Bridge Authority officials toured LTU’s Nabil Grace Center for Innovative Materials Research, informally known on campus as the Grace CIMR.
Among them was Kirk Steudle, former director of the Michigan Department of Transportation who is now a member of the Mackinac Bridge board. Steudle graduated from LTU in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He also serves on the LTU Board of Trustees and last year was inducted into the Michigan Transportation Hall of Honor.
LTU President Tarek M. Sobh and Nabil F. Grace, dean of the LTU College of Engineering and LTU vice president for research, showed off the CIMR’s capabilities. Among them:
A peek inside the fire chamber shows a beam being tested under nearly 2,000 degrees of heat and 50,000 pounds of pressure.
Patrick “Shorty” Gleason, chair of the Mackinac Bridge board, said he was thoroughly impressed by the testing equipment available at LTU–not to mention, as a longtime steelworker, the huge steel beams that support all the testing gear.
After the tour, the board was to hold a meeting Friday at the MDOT Metro Region Office at 18101 W. Nine Mile Road in Southfield.
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