Prince-Lund Engineering, PLC

06/28/2022

At the AASHTO NTPEP annual meeting promoting the FRP Institute for Civil Infrastructure in Nashville, Tennessee this week.

01/01/2021

Happy New Year! We are happy to be continuing with Clearcalcs.com to produce design software for the FRP reinforcement industry. Simple but thorough calculators provide manufacturers like Basaniteindustries.com more designs in a fraction of the time.

11/15/2020

Moving forward collaborating with Clearcalcs.com to create some great FRP reinforced concrete calculators designed specifically for FRP bar manufacturers and end users. They are great people.

Online structural design software. Calculation tools for shear force, bending moment, cantilever deflection, steel beam calculations, wood, concrete and more.

11/17/2017

Wonder why the piles for this floating dock, and many others, on the Willamette River near Portland, Oregon are so tall? Zoom in to the top of the first pole. About 30 feet or 9 meters.

It says, "Feb 1996 Flood Crest."

11/04/2017

Steel superstructure of the atrium roof constructed in 1891 for the railroad baron James J. Hill. The steel is stamped "Carnegie." St. Paul, Minnesota.

09/03/2017

Slope stability and terracing project almost finished. Landscapers come in next. Nice for a civil engineer to design something that does not get totally buried!

05/01/2017

Using chopped carbon fiber in the concrete mix to conduct electricity to evenly heat pavement

Engineers are testing heated pavement technologies at the Des Moines International Airport. They've installed two test slabs of electrically conductive concrete. And the pavement has effectively cleared ice and snow.

04/17/2017

Geotechnical Engineering is the art of molding materials we do not wholly understand -
Into shapes we cannot precisely analyze -
So as to withstand forces we cannot really assess -
In such a way that the community-at-large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.

Author unknown.

09/23/2015

Quite a tall Dam; 463 feet tall, 100 megawatt generation capacity

02/26/2015

Cool site-built wood arch trusses from 1953 at Burnette Foods in Elk Rapids, MI

09/21/2014

Which house used hurricane straps?

04/12/2014

Prince Engineering, PLC has been selected as the specialist to design the reinforcing for a 260,000 gallon concrete tank solely using Basalt FRP reinforcing bars. It will be the first FRP reinforced concrete tank in the United States.

The Lowell, Michigan waste-to-energy project is planning to use rebar made from basalt FRP for the reinforced concrete in its cast-in-place concrete wastewater treatment tanks.

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcing bars have become an accepted, non-corrosive alternative to steel reinforcement in limited concrete structures such as bridge decks and marine structures; however, no use of FRP bars have yet been used solely to reinforce concrete tanks in the U.S.