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Design and Construction: Segmental Concrete Bridges
Design and Construction: Segmental Concrete Bridges
Steen Rostam,
COWI A/S, Denmark
Deterioration mechanisms
The two-phase diagram illustrated in Figure 6 may
model the development in time of nearly all types of
deterioration mechanisms of concrete structures.
The service life requirement shall be quantified say 100 years! - or why not 150 or 200 years?
Design strategy
A.
B.
3.
4.
This bridge has now served more than half the 100
year service life so many other concrete bridges have
failed to reach - and this without structural
maintenance.
SERVICE LIFE DESIGN, STRATEGY B
Example: The Great Belt Link, Denmark
The approach of the service life design following
strategy B is to select intelligently an appropriate
number and types of co-operating measures to
ensure the required service life.
2.
Forecast
the
possible
movement
accumulation of the aggressive substance.
3.
4.
and
2.
b.
c.
d.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
c.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
= 0.40
a.
Bridges
The input to the service life design:
1.
Identification
and
quantification
environmental exposure.
of
the
b.
c.
a.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
= 0.40
b.
c = 59mm, ( = 1.30)
c = 63mm, ( = 1.50)
c = 68mm, ( = 1.80)
i.
4.
ii.
iii.
DCl- = 2x10
-12
m /s (= 63 mm /year)
iv.
v.
= 0.30
c = 20mm, ( = 1.30)
c = 22mm, ( = 1.50)
c = 25mm, ( = 1.80)
c = 38mm, ( = 1.30)
c = 40mm, ( = 1.50)
c = 44mm, ( = 1.80)
2.
m /s (= 94 mm /year)
-12
d.
DCl- (a)
DCl- (b)
DCl- (c)
DCl- (d)
= 1.3
20mm
24mm
27mm
30mm
= 1.5
22mm
26mm
30mm
33mm
= 1.8
25mm
30mm
34mm
37mm
c.
DCl- (b)
DCll- (c)
DCl- (d)
= 1.3
45mm
55mm
63 mm
70mm
= 1.5
47mm
57mm
66mm
75mm
= 1.8
51mm
63mm
73mm
81mm
terms of definitions
1. Introduction/General
2. Basis of Design
other administrative
provisions
principles of
service life
design criteria
2.
3.
4.
probabilistic models
-resistances
-loads/exposure
-geometry
design values
-characteristic values
-partial safety factors
-combination factors
limit states
design equations
avoidance of deterioration
exposure classes
exposure classes
design provisions
design provisions
design / verifications
project specification for material selection and execution
maintenance plan
inspection / monitoring plan
inspection of execution
maintenance
condition control
during service life
2.
3.
4.
of
hardening
has
been
2.
3.
minimum degree
achieved.
2.
2.
3.
4.
5.
DuraCrete,1999.
General
Guidelines
for
Durability Design and Redesign. The European
Union - Brite-EuRam III, Project No. BE 95-1347,
"Probabilistic Performance based Durability
Design of Concrete Structures", Report No. T 701-1.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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