SURVEY RESULTS OF THE INCIDENCE OF PREMATURE BRIDGE DECK ICING
The occurrence of frost on bridge decks is a serious problem in Minnesota. So that we could become better acquainted with differential frosting, our maintenance personnel were asked to collect data. A total of 35,198 observations were made during two winters. Originally, we thought that we would be able to predict when a bridge deck would frost; this was not the case. Frosting occurred over a large temperature range and did not depend on any logical combination of variables. Since predictions of deck frosting cannot be made reliably by visual observations, we intend to install a frost detection sensor and to correlate the sensor alarm with the visual observations. /Author/
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- Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Winter Maintenance. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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Authors:
- Raisanen, Donald L
- Publication Date: 1976
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Tables;
- Pagination: pp 2-4
- Monograph Title: Pavement and Bridge Icing
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 576
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bridge decks; Data collection; Detectors; Forecasting; Frost; Icing; Sensors; Surveys; Temperature
- Uncontrolled Terms: Observation
- Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00139576
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309024900
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Oct 6 1976 12:00AM