Recent Developments in Composite Bridge Building in Germany

by Johannes Falke, DSTV, Koeln, Germany,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete II

Abstract:

In the 1980s a movement started to build composite bridges with reinforced concrete slabs and to renounce to prestress them in one or both directions. This type of bridge is advantageous from the technical point of view and is very competitive. In parallel, research work was carried out to solve questions on crack width limitation and the bearing capacity of stud connectors. A survey on this development in Germany is given, some executed bridges are described as examples.

Subject Headings: Reinforced concrete | Concrete bridges | Composite bridges | Concrete slabs | Infrastructure construction | Cracking | Slabs | Germany | Europe

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