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MS Plan B Defense: Feasibility of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Piles for Marine Fender Systems at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska
POST 723 1680 East-West Road, HonoluluBethany Stafford Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa **This defense will be held both in person (POST 723) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 940 4010 1446 Passcode: BethMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/94040101446 Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Juneau contracts a project approximately biennially to replace damaged fender piles at Base Kodiak’s waterfront. Traditionally, this has been a replace-in-kind project that replaces damaged fender piles with the same type of marine-grade Douglas fir as originally installed. This project evaluates the feasibility of using Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) piles, which have a higher material cost, but more favorable