The all-composite road bridge – a proposal for rapid urbanisation
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Tomasz Siwowski
(Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland)
Aleksander Kozlowski (Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland) Leonard Ziemiański (Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland) Mateusz Rajchel (Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland) Damian Kaleta (Promost Consulting, Rzeszow, Poland) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Kuala Lumpur 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 95-102 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0095 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Technology and materials can help cities get smarter and cope with rapid urbanisation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the approaches applied in evaluation of material sustainability. Many significant LCA comparisons of innovative and traditional construction materials indicate that fibre- reinforced polymer (FRP) composites compare very favourably with other materials studied. As a proposal for rapid urbanisation, the FRP all-composite road bridge was developed and demonstrated in Poland. The paper describes the bridge system itself and presents the results of research on its development. The output of the R&D project gives a very promising future for the FRP composite bridge application in Poland, especially for cleaner, resilient and more environmentally efficient infrastructure of fast-growing cities. |
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| Keywords: |
road bridge testing FRP composites monitoring FEM analysis VARTM manufacturing
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