Prestressed concrete cylinder pipes (PCCPs) represent a critical component in water and wastewater infrastructure, offering an efficient balance of strength and durability. However, inherent ...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...

Recently, the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute released its 2024 awards winners. The company revealed the criteria each entry was judged on and the special awards given. According to the company ...

The smaller amount of concrete massively reduces the self-load of the structure, lowers the CO2 footprint and also significantly reduces transport costs. A further CO2 reduction of the component ...

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This article summarises the international development of cathodic protection of steel in concrete. The technology was developed in Europe and the USA for applications to buried prestressed concrete ...

The problem we are trying to solve is the condition assessment of corroded prestressed concrete (PC) bridge girders in New England. The problem is important because that PC bridge girders are a ...

From the looks of the average driveway or sidewalk, it may seem as though concrete is just destined to crack. But if concrete is so prone to cracking, how are we able to use it in so many high-stress ...

The old saying goes ‘that bate Banagher’ but now bridge builders all over Ireland and the UK face an even tougher challenge following the installation of the longest prestressed concrete river span ...

There had initially been a troublesome difficulty with one experiment. Hang Ping, a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, wanted to investigate in the laboratory ...

Prestressed Concrete Concrete is made stronger by Compresson; steel, by tension. These opposing properties are combined to make a building material which is stronger than reinforced concrete and ...