THE PROTOTYPE TESTING OF INNOVATIVE BRIDGE DETAILS: THREE RECENT CASE HISTORIES

While the Road Construction Authority prepared the design and tender documents for the South Melbourne section of the West Gate Freeway which included nearly 80,000 square metres of elevated roadway and used match cast segmental box girders erected by balanced cantilever construction from launching girders, several of the design details were investigated. The case studies selected for this paper are: (a) concrete piles cast under (i) water, (ii) bentonite slurry; (b) concrete cast to full scale prototype box girder segment dimensions; and (c) transmission length in grout-bonded post tensioning cables, i.e., load transfer without the use of end plates. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper presented at the Concrete Institute of Australia 12th Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 1985.
• Corporate Authors:

  CONCRETE INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA

  PO BOX 848
  SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES  Australia  1585
• Authors:
  • KAYAK, H
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bentonite; Box girders; Bridge design; Bridge members; Bridges; Cables; Cantilevers; Concrete; Highway bridges; Innovation; Load transfer; Prototypes; Segmental construction; Structural design; Support piles; Testing; Underwater construction
• Old TRIS Terms: Concrete piles
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 4186: Bentonite; 3474: Box girder; 3455: Bridge; 3450: Cantilever; 4781: Cast in situ concrete; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 2998: Joint (structural); 5567: Load; 2752: Motorway; 3399: Pile; 9109: Prototype; 3473: Superstructure (bridge); 6255: Test; 3626: Underwater
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00462540
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 1987 12:00AM