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Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
MANHATTAN Two faculty members from the Kansas State University Department of Civil Engineering have been awarded a three-year, $418,161 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in support of its licensing activities and mission of providing reasonable assurance of safety from the commercial nuclear fleet: the 96 operating U.S.-based power reactors.
The project, Addressing Technical Knowledge Gaps for Concrete Creep, Creep Recovery and Creep Fracture, will be led by Christopher Jones, associate professor and Wallis-Lage Family Cornerstone teaching scholar, with co-investigator, Robert Peterman, professor and Mark H. and Margaret H. Hulings chair in engineering.
The research will develop experimental and computer modeling approaches, and experimental data to enhance understanding of the response of concrete to long-term loading. Long-term loading, for this problem, is primarily the prestressing force applied to the concrete to limit cracking an