Expansion joint renewal with "zero" traffic disruption? A solution using modern sliding finger joints
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Thomas Spuler
Gianni Moor René Reimann |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Weimar 2007 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 564-565 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2007 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/weimar.2007.0665 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In order to minimise traffic disruption during expansion joint replacement works, it is beneficial to recognise at the time of initial joint selection and installation that the joint will almost certainly require to be replaced several times during the lifetime of the main structure. An expansion joint design which has resulted from this recognition is presented. The main parts of this joint, a sliding finger joint, can be easily replaced in a single night shift. Even where the original expansion joint is of a different type, a solution which enables replacement of the old joint with a new sliding finger joint, with minimal disruption to traffic, is presented. |
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| Keywords: |
renewal replacement expansion joint traffic management low noise
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