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Assessment and Rehabilitation Strategies/Guidelines to Maximize the Service Life of Concrete Structures |
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| Quarterly Reports | Additional Documents/Data | Final Report |
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Final Report | |
| Project ID: | DOT 0092-00-17 | |
| Title: | Assessment and Rehabilitation Strategies/Guidelines to Maximize the Service Life of Concrete Structures | |
| PI: | Teresa Adams Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Project: | This study evaluated the cost effectiveness of current bridge maintenance strategies and developed a spreadsheet tool for evaluating life-cycle maintenance strategies for existing concrete bridge decks. The spreadsheet constructs a performance curve for existing bridge decks, computes the estimated service life of common treatments for bridge decks such as patching, concrete or asphaltic overlays as well as that of a new deck with epoxy coated bars, conducts a life-cycle cost analysis for common maintenance scenarios, and determines the optimal maximum (tolerable) condition index that minimizes total life-cycle maintenance cost. | |
| Start Date: | October 1999 | |
| End Date: | February 2002 | |
| Project Award: | $50,000 | |
| TOC: | Structures | |