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A -- THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RETICULATED MICROPILE NETWORKS" SOL DTFH61-98-Q-00042 DUE 032098 POC Stephanie D. Parker, Contract Specialist, HAM40-G, (202)366-6014 The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to negotiate with Cornell University to perform a research study entitled, "The Effectiveness of Reticulated Micropile Networks." The purpose of this research is to investigate the performance of reticulated micropile networks to define optimum behavior for seismic retrofit techniques. The investigation will involve test equipment design and soil property characterization. The University of Cornell is uniquely qualified to perform this work because they have developed a unique concept for designing a micropile retrofit system and they are also very knowledgeable on how the reticulated feature of the micropile network system works. This is a Simplified Acquisition and the anticipated award date is on or about 03/20/98. (0048)

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