Minimum impact construction for bridge building is a growing demand in modern urban environments. Pre-cast segmental construction is one solution that offers low-impact, economical, and aesthetically pleasing bridges. The standardization of pre-cast concrete sections and segments has facilitated an improved level of economy in pre-cast construction. Through the development of high performance materials such as high strength fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC), further economy in pre-cast segmental construction may be realized. The design of pre-cast bridges using high-strength FRC and external unbonded tendons for cantilever construction may provide an economical, low-impact alternative to overpass bridge design.
This thesis investigates the feasibility and possible savings that can be realized for a single cell box girder bridge with thin concrete sections post-tensioned exclusively with external unbonded tendons in the longitudinal direction. A cantilever-constructed single cell box girder with a curtailed arrangement of external unbonded tendons is examined.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/11170 |
| Date | 30 July 2008 |
| Creators | Visscher, Brent Tyler |
| Contributors | Gauvreau, Douglas Paul |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 9583580 bytes, application/pdf |
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