San Antonio professor wins award for cracking the concrete code
Camille Sauers for MySA
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There’s a new king in town the king of concrete.
Or at least that’s what some might want to call Wassim Ghannoum, associate UTSA professor and winner of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Wasom Medal, or most meritorious research paper award.
According to UTSA Today, the associate professor in the University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has spent the last 10 years perfecting a unique method to strengthen and repair faulty bridges and other flimsy concrete structures. Documenting his work with carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) and concrete in a research paper for peer review to the ACI, Ghannoum’s decade long developments were lauded with the prestigious accolade.
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