Conceptual design and construction of lightweight R-UHPFRC bridges
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Eugen Brühwiler
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering the Future, Vancouver, Canada, 21-23 September 2017 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Vancouver 2017 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2683-2690 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2017 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/vancouver.2017.2683 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper is addressed to structural engineers motivated to design and build R-UHPFRC structures as cost-effective lightweight structures of original aesthetic expression. Basic principles and essential UHPFRC properties are outlined first. The conceptual design is illustrated by means of two designs in precast segmental construction, one for a railway bridge and one for a footbridge. The footbridge has been built in Switzerland and is in service since 2015. |
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| Keywords: |
footbridge railroad bridge rail bridge conceptual design lightweight structure segmental construction accelerated construction Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite materials (UHPFRC) R-UHPFRC
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