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PERFORMANCE OF A GFRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK

Eitel, Amy Katherine
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1102014072

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2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Civil Engineering.
The corrosion resistance of fiber-reinforced polymers in addition to their high-strength and lightweight makes them a promising alternative to traditional steel reinforcement in bridge decks. In cooperation with the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Engineering Department, a health monitoring system was implemented on a 3500 square foot replacement concrete bridge deck reinforced completely with glass FRP reinforcing bars. This project represents the first worldwide utilization of entirely GFRP non-tensioned reinforcement in a deck on a multi-span vehicular bridge. The goal of the monitoring system was to collect strain, temperature, and deflection data from the bridge through seasonal environmental slow data sampling and fast data sampling during live load tests for a minimum of 2 years. Six live load tests and two seasonal environmental sampling periods were performed on the bridge between May 2002 and August 2004. The rehabilitated deck was found to have enhanced stiffness and greater continuity resulting in conservative levels of curvature, impact effects, relative slab deflections, and slab, bar, and girder stresses, as anticipated due to the conservative design and predicted by finite element models. This investigation serves as a valuable comprehensive record of all-GFRP reinforced concrete behavior and may foster broader use in the infrastructure.
Arthur Huckelbridge (Advisor)
154 p.
Engineering, Civil
FRP composites; GFRP; FRP reinforcement; bridge performance; bridge monitoring

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  • Eitel, A. K. (2005). PERFORMANCE OF A GFRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1102014072

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Eitel, Amy. PERFORMANCE OF A GFRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK. 2005. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1102014072.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Eitel, Amy. "PERFORMANCE OF A GFRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1102014072

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