Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 or hd@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been issued a patent (US Patent #7,862,675) for a method of prestressing glued-laminated timber beams that significantly increases the strength of the wood for use in bridges and other structures. Associate Professor of civil engineering Mac Gray
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