Innovative material solutions for economical composite bridges with large spans and constrained slenderness

FiberCore Europe is a Dutch company, specialized in the design and manufacturing of composite, load-bearing structures for architecture and infrastructure. The company’s main focus is on bridges and lock gates made from glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP). The price for currently produced GFRP bridges longer than approximately 26 meter is...

Mechanical Behaviour and Durability of FRP-to-steel Adhesively-bonded Joints

During the last two decades, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge decks have been increasingly used as a competitive alternative for wood, concrete and orthotropic steel decks, due to their various advantages: light-weight, good corrosion resistance, low maintenance cost and rapid installation for minimizing the traffic disturbing time. These...

Upgrading Old Movable Bridges with FRP Deck Application: The case study of Wilhelminabrug

Fibre Reinforced Polymer bridge decks, thanks to their beneficial properties and various advantages over traditional materials, have great potential as a material used in bridge engineering. They exercise high specific strength and stiffness-to-weight-ratio, a property particularly interesting from the point of view of designers, as it provides...

Mechanical behaviour of adhesive joint under tensile and shear loading

Due to various advantages of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) decks, the FRP to steel composite bridge system is being increasingly used in new bridge structures as well as rehabilitation projects for old bridges. This paper focuses on the mechanical behaviours and failure modes of the adhesively-bonded joins between FRP sandwich decks and steel...