The viscoelastic properties of microbial biofilms have attracted great interests in recent years due to the ubiquity of biofilms and their wide range of industrial and municipal applications causing tremendous societal impacts. Biofilms are predominantly architected by extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) matrices composed of bacterial cells and biopolymers secreted by...
This final report provides information about TEA-21 [Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century] funded projects designated A433, and A495 "Evaluation of Capacity of Micropiles Embedded in Dolomite". The report was submitted to the Infrastructure Technology Institute at Northwestern University by Richard J. Finno on September 20, 2002.