REDECKING WITH PRECAST KEEPS TRAFFIC MOVING

They couldn't close the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge to give it a new deck, so the engineers designed a precast slab system that kept it open all during construction. Use of precast slabs and innovative construction methods not only kept peak volumes of traffic moving throughout the redecking process, but cut costs and trimmed seven months off the schedule. Construction was done at night, when traffic could be channeled into two lanes on one side of the bridge, but during the day all six lanes were kept in use.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Publication Date: 1984-1

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 46-50
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 54
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge decks; Bridges; Concrete construction; Highway bridges; Night; Precast concrete; Reconstruction; Repairing; Traffic flow
• Uncontrolled Terms: Repairs
• Old TRIS Terms: Decks; Post-tensioned slabs
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385823
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM