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2005-11-16

Prestressed Timber-Concrete Composite Bridges for Priority Road Network Design Method According to EC4 or EC5

The thesis deals with the question of whether prestressed timber-concrete composite bridges are suitable for use in the Austrian higher-level road network.

Author
Thomas Fortmüller

In the first main part of the thesis, the state of the art in the connector technology is presented, and the findings of investigations in Finland as well as the results of a work at the Graz University of Technology are reproduced. Although there is still potential for optimization, it was found that a quasi-rigid bond with glued-in reinforcement members can already be achieved.

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