bridge deck
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- Interlayer swelling of hydrated montmorillonite is an important issue in clay mineralogy.
- Steel plates with opening have been widely used in various structures, including buildings, bridges, ocean platforms, and industrial equipment.
- The major cause of deterioration for the concrete bridge decks exposed to de-icing chemicals would be chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion.
- Early-age cracking can adversely affect the behavior and durability of bridge deck concrete.
- Over the past years, with increasing traffic volumes and higher wheel loads, fatigue damage in steel parts of typical orthotropic steel bridge decks has been experienced on heavily trafficked routes.
- The permanent monitoring of structural health of buildings and bridges is a critical target in the framework of diagnosis and alerting in structural engineering.