Recent Bridge Applications of FRPS in Canada

It is estimated that the rehabilitation of Canada's deteriorating infrastructure will cost at least CAND 49 billion. This simple fact illustrates the urgent need to take advantage of emerging technologies showing potential for increasing the life of civil engineering structures and reducing their maintenance costs. The ISIS Canada Network of Centres of Excellence is planning to expend its resources over the next eight years to advance the widespread use of new technologies in infrastructure projects mainly by judicious and innovative use of fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) and fibre optic sensing (FOS) devices. It will build upon the expertise gained over the previous six years in a number of practical applications of these technologies, such as the ones reported in this paper.