Feasibility and Life Cycle considerations of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) deck solutions for renovation of steel highway bridges
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Liesbeth Tromp
Koen Schipper |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8 May 2013 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference, Rotterdam, May 2013 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 318-319 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2013 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137813806501470 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper describes the feasibility of FRP deck solutions for refurbishment and reinforcement of steel orthotropic bridges. Several Dutch steel bridges suffer from fatigue damage, because of the increased traffic intensity. The currently solution in the Netherlands is reinforcing the steel deck with a High Performance Concrete (HPC) layer. The main disadvantage is the relatively high dead weight it adds to the bridge structure. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) deck structures are strong, lightweight and fatigue resistant. FRP does not corrode and requires hardly any maintenance. Different solutions for both deck materials and configurations are evaluated for various types of steel bridges, over a realistic extended life time period of 30 years. Life Cycle considerations are included to show the value and opportunities for the FRP alternatives. |
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| Keywords: |
composite constructions Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) light weight constructions renovation of steel bridges reuse existing substructure
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