Protection and Rehabilitation Treatments for Concrete Bridge Components: Status and Service Life Opinions of Highway Agencies

WP Chamberlin, RE Weyers - Transportation Research Record, 1991 - trid.trb.org
WP Chamberlin, RE Weyers
Transportation Research Record, 1991trid.trb.org
As part of Task 1 of Strategic Highway Research Program Project C-103," Concrete Bridge
Protection and Rehabilitation: Chemical and Physical Treatments", state and provincial
highway agencies in the United States and Canada were surveyed in early 1989 by mailed
questionnaire on the status and service life of protective and rehabilitative treatments
applied to concrete components of bridges in their jurisdictions. Responses were received
from 47 states and 9 provinces. Respondents indicated that patching with rigid mortar or …
As part of Task 1 of Strategic Highway Research Program Project C-103," Concrete Bridge Protection and Rehabilitation: Chemical and Physical Treatments", state and provincial highway agencies in the United States and Canada were surveyed in early 1989 by mailed questionnaire on the status and service life of protective and rehabilitative treatments applied to concrete components of bridges in their jurisdictions. Responses were received from 47 states and 9 provinces. Respondents indicated that patching with rigid mortar or concrete (portland cement, quick-set, or polymer) is more widely accepted as a standard practice than any other deck treatment category (71.4% of agencies). Some treatments were judged by more agencies to be experimental rather than standard and were associated with generally lower acceptance frequencies. With the exception of cathodic protection, treatments for substructure and superstructure concrete were judged to be far less experimental than those for decks, and the standard acceptance frequencies more uniform. Opinions on the service life of treatments were generally widely scattered. Median responses for deck treatments varied from 1 year for asphalt concrete patching to greater than 20 years for micro-silica overlays; and for nondeck treatments from 5 to 10 years for sealers to 20 years for cathodic protection. Questionnaire responses have been used to focus the study of service life expectancy in Task 1 on those treatments considered to be in the mainstream of current practice.
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