FRP composite bridges provide optimal solutions in urban areas
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
William schutte
(City of Rotterdam Engineering Office, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Mozafar Said (City of Rotterdam Engineering Office, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Kees Blom (City of Rotterdam Engineering Office, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) |
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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): | 1839-1846 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2017 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/vancouver.2017.1839 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The city of Rotterdam has fully embraced Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP), otherwise known as composites, as building material and uses it extensively for city wide bridge replacements. Over ninety bridge have been realised. FRP has reduced the costs of ownership for asset managers and significantly improved on building nuisance. As a front runner with the application of composites Rotterdam has gained valuable experience on how to deal with a new upcoming market and a material which has not yet earned its place among conventional building materials. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges lightweight structures fibre reinforced polymers new materials composites
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