Research project titled “Evaluating and Refining Support Representation for Steel I-Girder Bridge Deck Placement Analysis” has received 2023-2024 UTRGV Faculty Seed Grant. This study aims to evaluate and refine support representation strategies for steel I-girder bridge deck placement analysis, to substantially improve numerical simulation approaches for more reliable and efficient structural design. This project is on-going with Zhou as the PI and Sedhain as the leading graduate student.