UT Arlington’s new NSF center and its partnership with industry may lower costs and lessen the need for infrastructure maintenance

Building a more sustainable worldA new National Science Foundation center at The University of Texas at Arlington will determine how to best use composite materials to extend the life-cycle of civil infrastructure, resulting in less maintenance and lower costs to taxpayers. The new Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure , an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, will highlight the sustainable benefits of using composites in infrastructure construction because traditional methods of repairing roads,