This report is a follow up and final report to the report on the “ Evaluation of Stainless Steel Reinforcement, Construction Report. RDT 03 – 003”. The results of interim testing during the bridges first five years are reported for Missouri’s first cast-in-place bridge deck using solid stainless steel reinforcing bars. This deck was compared to a conventionally constructed deck using precast p/s stay-in-place panels and a top mat of epoxy coated reinforcing steel. The deck construction was completed in 2001. Fiber-optic chloride sensors were embedded in both decks but no data was obtained from them. From the physical testing done, both destructive and non-destructive, conclusions of the assessments made of the corrosion conditions of the bars and decks were made. Recommendations for maintenance of the decks and on future testing were made.
Early-age cracking, typically caused by drying shrinkage (and often coupled with autogenous and thermalshrinkage), can have several detrimental effect...
Early-age bridge deck cracking has been found to be a prevalent problem worldwide. While early-agecracking will not cause failure of a bridge deck sys...
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving a Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS)/National Transportation Library (NTL)
Web-based service.
Thank you for visiting.
You are about to access a non-government link outside of
the U.S. Department of Transportation's National
Transportation Library.
Please note: While links to Web sites outside of DOT are
offered for your convenience, when you exit DOT Web sites,
Federal privacy policy and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act (accessibility requirements) no longer apply. In
addition, DOT does not attest to the accuracy, relevance,
timeliness or completeness of information provided by linked
sites. Linking to a Web site does not constitute an
endorsement by DOT of the sponsors of the site or the
products presented on the site. For more information, please
view DOT's Web site linking policy.
To get back to the page you were previously viewing, click
your Cancel button.
United States Department of Transportation
[PDF-580.65 KB]
