Jointless Concrete Bridges – Development of a Flexible Abutment
|
|
|||||||||||
Détails bibliographiques
| Auteur(s): |
Michael Pötzl
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Médium: | papier de conférence | ||||
| Langue(s): | anglais | ||||
| Conférence: | IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007 | ||||
| Publié dans: | IABSE Symposium Weimar 2007 | ||||
|
|||||
| Page(s): | 310-313 | ||||
| Nombre total de pages (du PDF): | 7 | ||||
| Année: | 2007 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137807796158057 | ||||
| Abstrait: |
For bigger concrete bridges the jointless construction hasn’t been established up to now. Concerns regarding the durability still exist since constraint stresses as a result of temperature alterations and shrinkage lead to crack initiation. With the use of the new flexible abutment these restraint stresses and occurring cracks can be reduced significantly. An efficient decoupling of abutment and subsoil is reached by introducing a buffer layer of polystyrene and a geogrid reinforced backfill. Full size tests and non linear calculations show that only little deformations arise at the backfill material. |
||||
| Mots-clé: |
culée
|
||||