Timber Bridge Decks
The portion of the nation's 500,000 bridge decks that are made of timber has been declining for years, as the old timber ones on secondary road bridges are rebuilt, in most...
A Road to Recovery
Inspections of the Golden Gate Bridge revealed that the bridge had localized corrosion near its expansion joints, corrosion of its reinforcing steel, and was severely contaminated with...
Nine Years' Service with Deep Polymer Impregnation
A test installation of deep polymer impregnation was applied to a heavily traveled bridge deck in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1975. The deep polymer impregnation process involved drying...
Clearing the Decks
Cathodic protection, an electrical-chemical process that prevents corrosion of steel rebars on bridge decks, is rapidly gaining acceptance by highway engineers and state highway departments....
Specifications for the Design and Construction of Composite Slabs and Commentary on Specifications for the Design and Construction of Composite Slabs
Composite slab construction is defined as a system comprising normal weight or lightweight structural concrete placed permanently over cold-formed steel decking in which the steel deck...
Jointless Bridge Decks
Deck joints in a bridge are the source of many problems over its lifetime. In time, chances are good the joint will leak, permitting water and salt to leak through. Often this leads to...
Bomb Crater Repair Holds Promise for Bridge Decks
Deep Polymer Impregnation Works on Concrete Deck
Redecking with Precast Keeps Traffic Moving
The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. could not be closed to traffic while a new deck was constructed. The engineers designed a precast prestressed and post-tensioned...
Viaduct
This concrete box girder viaduct, an Award of Merit in the 1984 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement competition, helps complete a seven mile gap in the Blue Ridge Parkway in North...
Retaining Wall
The foundation of this off-ramp in Manchester, New Hampshire is made up of end-bearing piles and sloping rock anchors�an innovation that is unique to the United States. End bearing piles...
New Tools Help Find Flaws
Certain electromagnetic tools for nondestructive evaluation of existing infrastructure, though not widely used, can cut cost and time of identifying flaws in existing infrastructure. Five...
Composite Slab with Stud Restraint
Aerodynamic Studies of the Thousand Islands Bridge
Reliability of Timber Bridge Decks
Lightweight Concrete Cuts Bridge Deck Load
New Type of Fiber Concrete Tested on Bridge Decks
Throgs Neck Bridge: Why Did Its Deck Deteriorate?
Rapid deterioration of the concrete roadway decks of the Throgs Neck Bridge approach viaducts was found to be due to secondary tensile and fatigue stresses brought on by deflection of...
Bridge Deck Overlay Combines Steel Fiber and Latex
Computer Aided Optimization of Bridge Girders
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