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Lightweight Concrete for Bridge Construction; Experience Acquired in the USA

• ID:

  1448

• ESCSI:

  4700.074

• Author:

  Weigler, Helmut

• Publication Name:

  Beton Stahlbetonbau

• Type of Publication:

  Journal

• Publisher:

• Dated:

  1988

• Issue/Volume:

  May, Vol. 83, No. 5

• Other ID:

• Page(s):

  136-141

• Reference List:

  Y

• Abstract:

  The paper reports on the favorable experience acquired in the construction of some 400 road bridgbes using lightweight concrete. Details center on an overview of the most common bridge types and a report describing the experience gained from execution and the behavior of twelve bridges which, from the point of view of their design, location and the environmental and service conditions to which they are subjected, can be regarded as being representative. In German.