Civil engineering faculty members Justin Marshall and Brian Anderson led undergraduate student Patrick Kimmons, below, and graduate students Luke Meadows, behind ladder, and Jared Jensen, above, in testing a bridge’s endurance for real-world use in the Harbert Structures Lab this summer. A full-scale, 20-foot span precast concrete specimen was donated by Foley Arch, a company based in Winder, Ga., for the team to test how much load the bridge could carry. When applying pressure to the bridge, the team examined cracks and looked for damage. The bridge was tested to failure after the team applied more than 190,000 pounds of pressure using three actuators and four high-strength rods.
