Challenges of a Bridge Design in Tight Urban Areas
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Elif Ünalan Gurbanli
(PROYAPI Engineering Consultancy Inc., Kuwait-City, KUWAIT)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Challenges for Existing and Oncoming Structures, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-27 May 2022 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Prague 2022 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1087-1091 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 5 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/prague.2022.1087 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Kuwait has one of the most prominent cars per square km ratio. Significant infrastructure upgrades continue. This paper mentions about multiple structural problems faced with a 3.2 km viaduct in one of the crowded main arterials of Kuwait City. The structural design should meet public needs with stability, strength, serviceability, economically and aesthetically. Any design starts with new ideas and hopes. Unfortunately, designs always go through scope creep due to the nature of highway projects. At the time of despair, it is well understood that engineers are created by time, critical thinking, and creativity in addition to education. This paper aims on introducing and discussing every challenge faced, starting from the beginning of design in Kuwait City. |
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| Keywords: |
post-tensioning pre-tensioning challenges stay-in-place panels cast-in-place slabs cast-in-place splices concrete I-girders steel strong-back
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| Copyright: | © 2022 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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