TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
Canada · PT corrosion · prestressed concrete girder approach viaducts with steel cantilever truss main span
For 50 years winter road salt soaked into the prestressed concrete beams of the approach viaducts, whose design did not allow single elements to be isolated and replaced…
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