News

TIDC Research Team from UMaine Composites Center, UMaine Civil & Environmental Engineering and MaineDOT receive award for Best Paper by the Society of Plastics Engineers

Researchers from the University of Maine and Maine Department of Transportation received a Best Paper Award for research conducted in 3D printing thermoplastic polymer culvert diffuser for use in highway culvert rehabilitation. The award was presented to the group by the Society of Plastics Engineers Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing Chapter at Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 2 yearsDecember 14, 2021 ago

Education and Outreach

The Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center Recognizes Outstanding Student Achievements at Annual Awards Ceremony

Posted Wednesday, 12/8/2021 Orono, ME – The Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center recognized 28 students during the 2021 Annual TIDC Student Recognition Night on Dec.1. The Annual Student Recognition Night recognizes the Student of the Year and Student Poster Contest winners. Each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation honors outstanding students from Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 2 yearsDecember 8, 2021 ago

News

Senator Collins Announces More Than $2.5 Million for UMaine Transportation Research

Posted Friday, 10/1/2021 on Susan Collins’ Press Releases Page Dr. Jonathan Rubin of UMaine, Dr. Moochul Shin of WNEU, Dr. Susan Faraji of UMass Lowell, Senator Susan Collins, Dr. Changhoon Lee of WNEU, Former MaineDOT Commissioner David Bernhardt, and TIDC Center Director Dr. Habib Dagher of UMaine Washington, D.C. – U.S. Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 3 yearsOctober 4, 2021 ago

News

New Institutional Lead from the University of Rhode Island

TIDC Welcomes Dr. Aaron Bradshaw, P.E., to Their Team TIDC is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Aaron Bradshaw, P.E., as the new Institutional Lead representing the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Bradshaw is an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the department of Civil & Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 3 yearsMarch 5, 2021 ago

Grist Mill Bridge Girders 1 and 2 being placed by crane

Commercialization

The Grist Mill Bridge in Hampden, Maine Now Open

TIDC researchers at the University of Maine and the University of Massachusetts Lowell worked with AIT Bridges during the installation of the first of its kind fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) Composite Tub Girder system developed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The Grist Mill Bridge, built around Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 3 yearsFebruary 24, 2021 ago

Education and Outreach

Seigel Named the 2020 TIDC Outstanding Student of the Year

October 21, 2020 Orono, ME – Virtual The Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) located at the University of Maine announced the 2020 TIDC Outstanding Student of the Year at the TIDC Student Recognition Night held virtually on October 21. For the past 29 years, the U.S. Department of Transportation has Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 3 yearsNovember 19, 2020 ago

Education and Outreach

TIDC Holds Student Recognition Night and Student Poster Contest

October 21, 2020 Orono, ME – Virtual The Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) located at the University of Maine hosted their 1st Annual Student Recognition Night & 2nd Annual Student Poster Contest. During the Ceremony, students from TIDC’s member universities at the University of Maine, University of Connecticut, University of Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 3 yearsNovember 19, 2020 ago

Education and Outreach

Schanck named a University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year

Schanck named a University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year Bangor resident one of 34 nationwide recognized by U.S. DOT ORONO, Maine — Andrew Schanck of Bangor, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering at the University of Maine, was recognized with an Outstanding Student of the Year award by Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 4 yearsJanuary 29, 2020 ago

Commercialization

The Results of the TIDC FRP Girder Research at UMaine are in the Beginning Stages of Commercialization

This Brewer company’s ‘72-hour bridge’ will debut next year in Hampden This article originally appeared in the Bangor Daily News. By Eesha Pendharkar, BDN Staff • August 6, 2019 1:00 am On the manufacturing floor of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in Brewer on Friday afternoon, four workers started laying out sheets of fiber not Read more…

By amanda.collamore, 5 yearsAugust 6, 2019 ago

Education and Outreach

TIDC Partners with MSTI at UMaine

TIDC partnered with MSTI (Maine Summer Transportation Institute) at the University of Maine to conduct a bridge building activity with 18 middle school students. Teams of students built bridges using straws and scotch tape. The bridges were weight tested with rolls of pennies. The winning bridge held $7.00 (14 rolls).

By amanda.collamore, 5 yearsJuly 16, 2019 ago