Ray Mumphrey and Kian Yap, Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development The Rigolets Pass Bridge, with a total length of 5489 ft (1673 m), is part of U.S. 90 between eastern New Orleans and the Gulf Coast towns of Mississippi.
Concrete Permeability Testing – Part 1
D. Stephen Lane, Virginia Transportation Research Council For concrete bridges, chloride-induced corrosion of reinforcement has long been the major durability problem and tests developed have attempted to measure, directly or indirectly, the penetrability of chloride ions into concrete. Such tests
Rigolets Pass Bridge—HPC Material Property Studies
John J. Roller, CTLGroup and Robert N. Bruce, Tulane University In conjunction with construction of the Rigolets Pass Bridge, the state initiated a research program with the objective of monitoring the structural behavior of one of the two high performance
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Question & Answer
Question: Issue No. 57 of HPC Bridge Views included an article about ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) in Iowa. How were the beams cured for the Jakway Park Bridge in Buchanan County? Answer: The pi-girders in the Jakway Park Bridge were
Ultra-High Performance Concrete in Iowa
Dean Bierwagen and Ahmad Abu-Hawash, Iowa Department of Transportation; Brian Moore, Wapello County, Iowa; and Brian Keierleber, Buchanan County, Iowa With funding support from the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Innovative Bridge Research and Deployment (IBRD) program and the Iowa Highway