ACI announces winners of student FRP composites competition

Farmington Hills, Mich. — The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced the winners of its 2017 Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Polymer Composites Competition. The competition took place at The Concrete Convention and Exposition in Detroit.

During the competition, students designed, constructed, and tested a concrete structure reinforced with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars to achieve the optimal load-to-cost ratio, predicted the ultimate load, and predicted the load that would result in a piston deflection of 3.5 mm (0.14 in.).

Structure Type 1 Category

1st Place: Universidad San Francisco de Quito: Santiago Bolaños, Danilo Garcia, Alejandra Leon; Faculty Advisor – Francisco Játiva

2nd Place: Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón Team: Hernández de la Cruz José Eduardo, Olea Silva Juan Jesús, Ruiz Garduño Eduardo Andrés; Faculty Advisor – Jose Paulo Mejorada Mota

3rd Place: Universidad De Cuenca Team: Alvaro Román Bacuilima Muñoz, Darwin Miguel Apolo Bustamante, Rubén Sebastián Guambaña Chérrez, Wilson Paúl Guillén Chima, Jasson Rubén Sánchez Calle; Faculty Advisor – Dr. Juan Fernando Zalamea León

Structure Type 2 Category

1st Place: Universidad San Francisco de Quito: Andres Rodriguez, Jose Eduardo Paredes, Milagros Jimenez, Juan José Tamayo; Faculty Advisor – Francisco Jativa

2nd Place: Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón Team: González Cruz José Antonio, González Ramírez Juan Manuel; Faculty Advisor – Jose Paulo Mejorada Mota

3rd Place: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Team: Isabelle Martínez Rivera, Kaliam Y. Ortiz, Jaime Fuentes Ortiz, Manuel González Soto; Faculty Advisor – Arsenio Cáceres

The following universities participated in the competition:

• Arizona State University
• Auburn University
• British Columbia Institute of Technology
• City College of New York
• Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragon UNAM
• Instituto Maua de Tecnologia
• Lawrence Technological University
• Missouri University of Science and Technology
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• New York City College of Technology-CUNY
• North Carolina State University
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
• San Jose State University
• Southern Illinois State University
• Texas State University
• Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
• Universidad Católica de Cuenca
• Universidad Central Del Ecuador
• Universidad de Cuenca
• Universidad San Francisco de Quito
• University of Arkansas Fayetteville
• University of Houston
• University of Houston-Downtown
• University of Illinois
• University of Manitoba
• University of Minnesota Duluth
• University of Nevada Las Vegas
• University of Ottawa
• University of Puerto Rico at Mayaquez
• University of Sherbrooke
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Waterloo
• University of Windsor
• University of Wisconsin – Platteville
• Valparaiso University

For more information on ACI’s Student Competitions, visit www.concrete.org.