| Description |
xii, 184 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Summary |
"Strengthening structures with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite systems has been growing in popularity over recent years for the many benefits that the technology offers. The umbrella project, "Preservation of Missouri Infrastructure: Validation of FRP Composite Technology Through Field Testing", also known as the Five Bridges Project, was designed to push forward composite strengthening schemes for use on real structures...This thesis presents high-precision Surveying Equipment as a new servicability monitoring system for load testing; the materials, procedures, and data analysis techniques are discussed as well as a comparison between serviceability monitoring systems. This thesis also presents the results of the load testing. All five bridges are compared in terms of serviceability before and after strengthening results to show that the FRP strengthening systems are performing acceptably."--Abstract, leaf iii. |
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