Benjamin Turner Awarded for Paper on Bridge Foundations
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust has announced Benjamin Turner as the recipient of its 2014 Student Paper Competition.
Turner is a Ph.D. candidate in geotechnical earthquake engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His paper, “Evaluation of Influence on Lateral Spreading Displacement Demand for Adjacent Bridges,” focuses on adjacent bridges that cross the Colorado River in Mexico. During a 2010 earthquake they were subjected to laterally spreading ground.