132:, as Paul Weidlinger, Consulting Engineer, in Washington, DC, in 1949. The company moved its headquarters to Manhattan in 1951; was renamed Weidlinger Associates Consulting Engineers in 1974; and was incorporated as Weidlinger Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1982. Dr. Jeremy Isenberg succeeded Paul Weidlinger as president and CEO in 1993, and Dr. Raymond Daddazio succeeded Dr. Isenberg on January 1, 2006. In 2011, the firm became a general business corporation under the laws of New York State. The firm currently employs approximately 300 people.
223:' Grand Conceptor Award for its comprehensive study of the World Trade Center tower collapses. More than 150 Weidlinger projects have received awards for engineering excellence, technical innovation, and creative design. The firm has also been awarded numerous U.S. Small Business Innovation Research grants and Small Business Technology Transfer grants by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Technology, including a Tibbetts Award for advancing technological innovation with PZFlex Software.
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loading docks against blast. Weidlinger's software is used by military, public administrative, and corporate clients to simulate structures and devices, enhance design, and assess vulnerability. Some programs combine the effects of several load types. Others use imaging techniques to improve the manufacture of integrated circuits, predict the location of underground petroleum reservoirs, and streamline the design of ultrasonic probes for medical use.
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181:. The company also designed the steel deck sections of the self-anchored suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. In 2004, Ronald Mayrbaurl and Sante Camo, two Weidlinger principals, published the first-ever guidelines for the inspection and evaluation of suspension bridge cables.
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