GOLDEN GATE IS REDECKED AT NIGHT

The $52.5-million project to replace the deteriorated concrete deck and steel stringers of the Golden Gate Bridge--while traffic keeps moving--is a nightly exercise in precision, with severe penalties for any misstep. Between 8:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. every week night, the contractor typically removes three 10 X 50-ft roadway sections--half of the 60-ft-wide deck--along with the adjacent sidewalk. In their place it installs two prefabricated, steel orthotropic plate panels and a precast lightweight-concrete sidewalk section. The original 7-in. concrete deck and 24-in.-deep stringers and diaphragms on the 47-year-old bridge are being replaced because of extensive corrosion caused by salt-laden fog that envelops it almost daily.

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    McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

    330 West 42nd Street
    New York, NY  United States  10036
  • Publication Date: 1984-5

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  • Pagination: p. 141-145
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  • Accession Number: 00390000
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Engineering Index
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM