Rationally designed staged posttensioning to abate reflective cracking on side-by-side box-beam bridge decks

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2172, 2010, Pages 87-95

  Ulku, Evren ^a   Attanayake, Upul ^b   Aktan, Haluk M ^b  

^a Paul C Rizzo Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Western Michigan University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE DECKS; CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANALYSIS MODELS; BEAMS (BRIDGE); BOX BEAM; DECK CRACKING; DESIGN PROCEDURE; MICHIGAN; POSTTENSIONING; RATIONAL DESIGN; SIDE BOX; SIDE BY SIDES;

DESIGN;

EID: 78651289814     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2172-10     Document Type: Article

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