Quantifying time and user cost savings for rapid bridge construction technique

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2151, 2010, Pages 11-20

  Abudayyeh, Osama ^a   Cai, Hubo ^a   Mellema, Brock ^b   Yehia, Sherif ^a  

^a Western Michigan University   (United States)

^b HBE Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; PRECAST CONCRETE;

ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; CASE-STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; COST SAVING; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INITIAL COSTS; PRECAST CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY; RAPID BRIDGE CONSTRUCTIONS; TIME COST; USER COST;

COSTS;

EID: 78651277932     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2151-02     Document Type: Article

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