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Meeting/Event Information
SEI Technical Session
July 25, 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Ballroom at Tanglewood
5430 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77056
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Join your peers for the next SEI Houston Chapter Luncheon Technical Session:
"Long Span Three I-Girder Integral Steel Straddle Bent Application for I10/US69 Beaumont Eastex"
To enhance redundancy and eliminate frequent and costly inspections of fracture-critical steel structures, Volkert worked with TxDOT Bridge Division to develop a triple I-beam, system-redundant integral steel bent cap solution. Design utilized a two-step approach: (1) Overall section design in accordance with AASHTO “LRFD BDS” using a 3-D FEM beam model; and (2) 3-D nonlinear FEM shell analyses to design girder/cap connections and verify system redundancy requirements using AASHTO/NSBA “Guide Specification GSFCM-1-UL”. Based on the linear and nonlinear modeling and analyses performed and special detail development, it is confirmed that the three-girder system with internal diaphragms accommodated the necessary load redistribution to ensure safety and limit component stresses and strains after tensile/fatigue fracture of a main load carrying member in the cap.
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Speaker: Feifei Bai P.E., S.E Where: The Ballroom @ Tanglewood When: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 Online Tickets*: Members: $45.00; Government Employees: $35.00; Student: $20.00; Non-Members: $55.00
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Speaker Bio: Feifei Bai P.E. is a senior structural engineer with seventeen years of design experience and skilled in all phases of structural design of various types of structures including bridges, retaining walls and deep foundations. Engineering design experience includes prestressed concrete and steel bridges. She joined Volkert, Inc since 2018. Has served as Structural Task Lead for the $605 million TxDOT IH35 Mobility CapEx-North project. Also served as the Structural Task Lead for the $750 million I10/US69 Interchange Eastex section of I10/US69. Currently serving as the Structural Task Lead for $4.5 billion IH35 Mobility CapEx-Central project.
Currently registered Professional Engineer in Alaska, Texas, California and Washington. Registered Structural Engineer in Alaska, California, Illinois and Utah.
The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) is dedicated to serving and promoting the worldwide structural engineering profession and related industries by providing a forum for research, education, design, testing, manufacturing, construction, and operations in the structural engineering profession.
Event Contact: Youssaira Belmokadem, P.E. | Chair, SEI Houston
Tickets
$45.00 Member
$35.00 Government Employee
$20.00 Student
$55.00 Non-Member
