Fiber‎-reinforced polymer ‎(‎FRP‎)‎ decks have been increasingly used for new construction and rehabilitation projects worldwide‎.‎ The benefits of using FRP bridge decks‎,‎ such as durability‎,‎ light weight‎,‎ high strength‎,‎ reduced maintenance costs‎,‎ and rapid installation‎,‎ outweigh their initial in‎-place material costs when implemented in highway bridge projects‎.‎ FRP Deck and Steel Girder Bridge Systems‎:‎ Analysis and Design compiles the necessary information to facilitate the development of the standards and guidelines needed to promote further adoption of composite sandwich panels in construction‎.‎ It also‎,‎ for the first time‎,‎ proposes a complete set of design guidelines‎.‎ Providing both experimental investigations and theoretical analyses‎,‎ this book covers three complementary parts‎:‎ FRP decks‎,‎ shear connectors between the deck and steel girders‎,‎ and the behavior of bridge systems‎.‎ The text presents stiffness and strength evaluations for FRP deck panels and FRP deck‎-girder bridge systems‎.‎ While the FRP deck studies focus on honeycomb FPR sandwich panels over steel girder bridge systems‎,‎ they can be adapted to other sandwich configurations‎.‎Similarly‎,‎ the shear connection and bridge system studies can be applied to other types of FRP decks‎.‎ Chapters discuss skin effect‎,‎ core configuration‎,‎ facesheet laminates‎,‎ out‎-of‎-plane compression and sheer‎,‎ mechanical shear connectors‎,‎ and FRP deck‎-steel girder bridge systems‎.‎ Based on the findings described in the text‎,‎ the authors propose design guidelines and present design examples to illustrate application of the guidelines‎.‎ In the final chapter‎,‎ they also provide a systematic analysis and design approach for single‎-span FRP deck‎-stringer bridges‎.‎ This book presents new and improved theories and combines analytical models‎,‎ numerical analyses‎,‎ and experimental investigations to devise a practical analysis procedure‎,‎ resulting in FRP deck design formulations‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Julio F‎.‎ Davalos‎,‎ An Chen‎,‎ Pizhong Qiao
• Publisher‎:‎ CRC Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781439877616