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Meeting/Event Information
SEI Technical Session
November 07, 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:
"The 1983 Rehabilitation of the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge - Truss Bridges in the Modern Era"
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland recently collapsed after a brief collision with the MV Dali, highlighting infrastructure fragility and public funding disconnect.
In a one-hour session, Richard will discuss his early-career project: the 1983 rehabilitation of the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge, Texas's second-longest truss span. After 25 years, plans were made to replace its 7-inch lightweight concrete deck with an 8-inch hardrock deck, raising the dead load by 71% and raising stability concerns.
Richard and Dean Van Landuyt developed an economic strategy to strengthen the bridge, seeking FHWA variances for overstressed elements. He’ll cover TxDOT's modifications and the bridge's performance since.
Richard will engage all audiences, sharing insights from 1980s engineering and showcasing tools of the time. A few slides will also cover significant modern truss bridge failures.
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Speaker: Richard Fields, P.E. Where: The Ballroom @ Tanglewood, 5430 Westheimer Rd., Houston TX 77056 When: Thursday, November 7, 2024, 11:30 AM to 1 PM Tickets: Member: $45; Non-Member: $55; Government Employees: $35; Students: $20 |
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Speaker Bio: Throughout his 36-year career in civil engineering, Richard's roles ranged from a beginning EIT to a founder of a successful mid-size civil engineering firm. His experience includes project management, highway, roadway, drainage design, bridge and retaining wall design, and construction management. He organized a major advocacy organization, the Highway 36A Coalition. He is known for his leadership skills and creating a productive employee culture.
Richard's experience includes three years with the former TxDOT Bridge Division. While with the department, he gained experience in prestressed concrete design (pre- and post-tensioned), concrete design, steel design, steel fatigue analysis, shop plan review, specification writing, load ratings of bridges, truss analysis, and strengthening, bridge inspection, field measurement of fatigue stress ranges and computer programming. Richard is fluent in the sophisticated use of design software and technologies, having written custom software applications to interface with many mainline software packages.
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: Cristian Aparicio, P.E. | Chairman, SEI Houston
Tickets
$45.00 Member
$35.00 Government Employee
$20.00 Student
