“When a geothermally heated bridge system developed by Texas researchers was put to the test during a winter freeze in Fort Worth, the bridge showed no evidence of snow or ice accumulation.
This research initiative is a cross-university collaboration between Dr. Anand Puppala, professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, A.P. & Florence Wiley Chair, and director of the Center for Infrastructure Renewal at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Puneet Bhaskar, postdoctoral associate, and Aditya Deshmukh, EIT, doctoral student, from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Dr. Xinbao Yu, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) leads the project as the principal investigator. He is accompanied by Dr. Gang Lei, a postdoctoral research associate, and Alireza Fakhrabadi, a doctoral student, from UTA.”
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