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ATLSS Engineering Research Center at Lehigh University |
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Lehigh University’s Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Engineering Research Center, under the direction of Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Structural Engineering Richard Sause, Ph.D., P.E, is a national center for research and education on structures and materials of the infrastructure. We welcome you to learn more about the Center, including its people, projects, programs, and educational opportunities, and how the Center can be of benefit to you or your organization.
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We are pleased to announce the recent awarding of a new collaborative university-industry economic development program by the Pennsylvania (PA) Department of Community and Economic Development under the Discovered and Developed in PA (D2PA) Program. The program, entitled Research for Advanced Manufacturing in Pennsylvania (RAMP), will be administered jointly by Lehigh University’s Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Engineering Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Complex Engineering Systems (ICES).
Following a one year period of without program funding, we are pleased to announce that Lehigh University, through the ATLSS Engineering Research Center, has again received PITA funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for FY13. The RFP for the program is now open and we invite the submittal of proposals by October 1, 2012.
This project is investigating a family of innovative self-centering (SC) steel frame systems with the potential to withstand the currently accepted design basis earthquake (DBE) for buildings without damage.
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The technical focus areas for PITA proposals include the following areas:
This project aims to develop integrated maintenance-monitoring-management systems for highway bridge infrastructure at both project-level and network-level, based on simulated and monitored time-dependent bridge health as well as reliability and life-cycle cost analyses.
Full scale fatigue testing of cantilevered highway sign/traffic signal and high level luminaire (high mast lighting) structures is being conducted at Lehigh University’s ATLSS Center and Fritz Laboratory as part of an ongoing research under NCHRP Project 10-70.