The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announces the winners of its 2017 Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Polymer Composites Competition. The competition took place at The Concrete Convention and Exposition in Detroit, Mich.
During this exciting 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, please visit www.concrete.org.
