LSU Faculty Experts Available to Discuss Baltimore Bridge Collapse
March 27, 2024
BATON ROUGE - Two LSU engineering professors and one LSU law professor are available to give insight on the tragic bridge collapse in Baltimore.
- Ayman Okeil, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU College of Engineering
- Areas of Expertise: Bridge engineering; structural reliability; nondestructive testing and evaluation of structures; structural rehabilitation and strengthening; nonlinear behavior of concrete structures.
- Sabarethinam Kameshwar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU College
of Engineering
- Areas of Expertise: Infrastructure and community resilience; multi-hazard and extreme event performance of structures (bridges, buildings, oil storage tanks) and infrastructure systems (roads, water, power); surrogate modeling and machine learning for natural hazards research; decision support for resilience considering deep uncertainties; lifecycle analysis and sustainability of infrastructure.
- Tom Galligan, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- Areas of Expertise: admiralty, or cases concerning ships or the sea, navigable waters, maritime law.