Suggested Citation: "Section 6 - Quantification of Socioeconomic Impacts." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Evaluation of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Connections.

UHPC is a relatively new material for precast, prestressed concrete bridge products. This material has been generally used for connections between adjacent precast members. Significant effort is ...

The twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge were showing their age by 2018, with more than 1 billion cars and trucks having rolled across their decks over the decades. Built in 1952, the deck of ...

Photo courtesy UHPC Solutions North America and CHRYSO As a toll bridge with more than 80,000 vehicle crossings daily, disruption to traffic and toll collections was a primary concern. Work could only ...

The first Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) bridge in the United States was built in Iowa. It’s thus fitting that Iowa State University (ISU), paired with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration ...

There's a dire need to repair aging infrastructure in the U.S., and an innovative building material could be a game changer. Embedded with steel fibers, ultra-high performance concrete is about five ...

On July 15, 2021, AEEE Capital Holding & Advisory Group (AEEE) announced the completion of a peer review of a new sustainable ultra-high performance concrete mix named EASSCM (EA Super Strength ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Gage Brothers, a concrete products company, recently ...

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is an enhanced fibrous and cementitious concrete with high compressive strength (120–250 MPa) particle packing density (0.825–0.855, tensile strength (15–20 MPa) ...