Design and Construction of a Bridge in Very High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Publication: Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 8, Issue 5
Abstract
The design, technology, and construction of a small road bridge made of very high performance fiber-reinforced concrete is described in this paper. The bridge consists of precast prestressed concrete beams with a cast-in-place ordinary concrete deck. A preliminary experimental investigation was conducted to define the mix design, to establish the properties of the material and its durability, and to study the flexural behavior of the prestressed concrete beams with and without the concrete deck. The effect of steel fibers at the structural level, where there is an influence of constitutive behavior and size effects, was analyzed by testing a prestressed beam using very high performance fiber-reinforced concrete without fibers. The establishment of the structural properties of the material then allowed the design of the final section of the bridge beams and the definition of a model to justify the design rules adopted. This project represents an attempt to demonstrate the industrial feasibility of very high performance concrete structural elements manufactured with conventional raw materials and usual production techniques and to evaluate the production technology when utilizing steel fibers.
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Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 8 • Issue 5 • September 2003
Pages: 281 - 287
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Copyright © 2003 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Feb 22, 2001
Accepted: Nov 20, 2002
Published online: Aug 15, 2003
Published in print: Sep 2003
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