Preface to Advanced Composites in Bridge Construction and Repair

Advanced composites similar to fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) are promising supplies for civil infrastructure utility.

Regardless of their comparatively brief historical past in analysis and implementation, signifi cant advances have been made over the past 20 years.

Federal and municipal businesses now settle for these non-conventional development supplies. Practitioners are keen to make use of them for his or her initiatives to enhance the sustainability of constructed structural members.

The target of this ebook, Advanced Composites in Bridge Construction and Repair , is to establish present scientific challenges dealing with the infrastructure group,

and to deal with them for the good thing about most people, technically and socioeconomically.

A complete of ten chapters have rigorously been reviewed and chosen for publication.

The authors of every chapter are thought-about specialists and leaders in the analysis group.

Technical contents embody use of superior composites for bridge development and efficiency monitoring, prestressed FRP composites,

bond habits of the composite–concrete interface, non-conventional composite honeycomb bridge decks and all composite superstructures, and restore of deteriorated bridges.

The emphasis of this ebook is positioned on basic analysis points and sensible utility on web site. Advanced Composites in Bridge Construction and Repair supplies essential info to training engineers, authorities officers, and teachers.

There isn’t a doubt that the compilation of the state-of-the-art applied sciences will advance our knowledge-oriented society, in explicit constructed civil infrastructure.

The editor gratefully acknowledges Ms Emily Cole and Mr Francis Dodds at Woodhead Publishing for his or her tireless skilled service.

Due to their excessive power and low density, fi ber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite supplies have been broadly used in the aerospace and automotive industries because the center of the final century.

FRP composites don’t corrode in concrete in the best way metal does. Goldsworthy (1954) predicted that FRP composites might be used as reinforcements in concrete and as structural members topic to corrosive environments.

Glass fiber strengthened polymer (GFRP) rods had been used first as reinforcements for concrete buildings.

Because the late 1980s, FRP rebars have been used extra extensively in concrete constructions, particularly in freeway bridge decks, due to their resistance to corrosion (Financial institution, 2006).

For a similar cause, FRP composites have been used extra and extra broadly when repairing and retrofitting deteriorated bridge superstructures, to strengthen bridge decks, girders and piles, and when changing structural members (e.g. decks).

FRP supplies are additionally more and more getting used in bridges as a result of new manufacturing methods have diminished their value (Telang et al ., 2006).

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