Third International fib Congress incorporating the PCI Annual Convention and Bridge Conference 2010
Washington, DC, USA
29 May - 2 June 2010
Volume 1 of 6
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VOLUME 1
BRIDGES AND TRANSPORTATION
FLEXURAL STRENGTH OF PRESTRESSED REINFORCED CONCRETE PILES USING HIGH-STRENGTH MATERIAL ...... 1 M. Akiyama, M. Suzuki, R. Abe
DESIGN & BUILD FOR PALM JUMEIRAH MONORAIL INFRASTRUCTURES IN DUBAI, U.A.E...... 15 H. Omi, S. Ohno, N. Horikoshi
RECENT CHANGES THAT HAVE IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF POSTTENSIONING IN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION ...... 25 Z. Xia
DOUBLING THE WIDTH OF THE PLATFORM OF THE SAN PEDRO BRIDGE (SPAIN) ...... 34 J. Torroja, J. Simon-Talero, A. Hernandez
CRUSELL BRIDGE, CABLE-STAYED IN THE WEST HARBOR OF HELSINKI (FINLAND), STAY SYSTEM ELABORATION IN TERMS OF DESIGN, EXECUTION AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR...... 54 R. Rucabado, A. Semir, J. Torvinen
PREDICTION OF SHEAR CARRYING CAPACITY OF SEGMENTAL CONCRETE BEAMS WITH EXTERNAL TENDONS ...... 65 D. Nguyen, K. Watanabe, J. Niwa
DEVELOPMENT OF EMBEDDABLE MULTIPROBE SENSORS FOR CORROSION MONITORING AND SERVICE LIFE PREDICTION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 77 A. Holst, H. Budelmann
NEW RIVER SUIR BRIDGE, CABLE-STAYED LANDMARK ALONG N25 WATERFORD BYASS (IRELAND), STAY SYSTEM ELABORATION IN TERMS OF DESIGN, EXECUTION AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR ...... 88 J. Richart, A. Ladysz, R. Rucabado
DESCENDING MANOUEVER ON CONCRETE SEMI ARCHES, DEZA HIGH SPEED VIADUCT, AVE GALICIA. SEGMENT: LALÍN (ANZO) – SILLEDA (CARBOEIRO), SPAIN ...... 100 R. Rucabado, A. Moreno, M. Calvo, P. Taboas
PRESTRESSING APPLICATIONS ON SITRA BRIDGES, KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN ...... 113 G. Domeyer, J. Lorenzo
SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF EXISTING BRIDGES – SEISMIC ISOLATION VERSUS DUCTILITY...... 122 M. Baur, A. Faecke
BALANCED LIFT METHOD FOR LIFT BRIDGES...... 134 S. Blail, D. Wimmer, J. Kollegger
DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND TESTING OF A 2ND GENERATION ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE PI-GIRDER...... 141 B. Graybeal
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOOVER DAM BYPASS ARCH BRIDGE ...... 155 Y. Takatoku
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR TRANSFER CAPACITY OF PERFOBOND STRIP...... 168 R. Yamaguchi, R. Shionaga
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAGI-MAI BRIDGE...... 177 K. Oue, H. Imai, H. Oshima, H. Noguchi, Y. Ito
RESEARCH ON SOLUTIONS TO CONSTRAIN LONGITUDINAL CRACKS ON THE BOTTOM OF PRE- STRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES...... 184 X. Wu, Y. Wang
COMPUTERIZED CONCEPTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF POST-TENSIONING IN CONCRETE BRIDGE ENGINEERING ...... 198 H. Bulicek, S. Seipelt
HIGH FREQUENCY FATIGUE TESTING OF STAY CABLES...... 210 W. Traeger, J. Kollegger
FATIGUE TESTING WITH TRANSVERSE DISPLACEMENTS IN STAY CABLE SYSTEMS...... 221 G. Rodriguez, C. Olabarrieta
STUDY OF A BRIDGE WITH A NEW SRTUCTURAL SYSTEM USING ULTRA HIGH STRENGTH FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE ...... 235 A. Kasuga, N. Nagamoto, K. Kata, H. Asai
INDIRECTLY SUPPORTED BRIDGES – RISK OF BRITTLE FAILURE? ...... 246 K. Thoma, C. Bueeler
TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR LIGHTWEIGHT SEGMENTED BRIDGES WITH POST- TENSIONING...... 256 D. Jesse, F. Jesse
PARAMETRIC STUDY OF LONG-SPAN PRE-CAMBERED BRIDGE GIRDERS ...... 270 G. Portela-Gauthier, U. Barajas-Valdes, W. Varela-Ortiz
BALANCED CANTILEVER CONSTRUCTION...... 279 T. Richli, J. Sowa, C. Chang
DESIGN OF BUCHANAN COUNTY, IOWA, BRIDGE, USING ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE AND PI-GIRDER CROSS SECTION ...... 293 D. Bierwagen, B. Moore, B. Keierleber, S. Sritharan, T. Wipf, A. Abu-Hawash
FHWA RESEARCH PROGRAM ON LIGHTWEIGHT HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE – DEVELOPMENT LENGTH OF UNCOATED MILD STEEL IN TENSION...... 324 G. Greene Jr., B. Graybeal
BRIDGE ABOVE ENMEDIO STREAM. ANALYSIS OF D REGIONS ...... 343 S. Perez-Fadon, C. Bajo
UNDERPASSES UNDER RESTRICTED BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ...... 371 S. Bansal, S. Rustagi, J. Kurian
NEW APPROACHES IN MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS OF PRE-STRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES...... 387 J. Kucharik
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LIGHTWEIGHT HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE FOR PRECAST PRESTRESSED BRIDGE GIRDERS ...... 396 R. Holland, J. Dunbeck, L. Kahn
RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF VIADUCT IN AN URBAN CITY USING THE PRE-CAST SEGMENT CONSTRUCTION METHOD IN THE DUBAI METRO PROJECT...... 405 T. Yamaguchi, H. Onishi, H. Sekiguchi, T. Iwaki, Y. Otsuka, Y. Sakakibara
DURABILITY OF TENDONS: MONITORING OF GROUT QUALITY DURING INJECTION AND CORROSION RISK DURING DESIGN LIFE OF TENDON ...... 416 Y. Wu, H. Ganz, M. Buchler
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE FILLING UP DETENCTION OF PC GROUT BY THE NON- DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION ...... 428 J. Hamaoka, S. Nojima, T. Kamamoto, O. Tachibana
RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT OF NEWLY-BUILT BRIDGE VIBRATION EFFECTS ON SURROUNDING BUILDINGS ...... 438 X. Shi, S. Geng, X. Ruan, Z. Qu, Z. Wang
EXPERIMENT ON THE JOINT AT THE LOWER END OF THE STRUT IN PC BOX GIRDER BRIDGE WITH STRUTS ...... 447 H. Gatto, J. Iwatate, Y. Hayashida, S. Murata, M. Matsumoto, T. Kanamoto
TESTING AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PRECAST PRESTRESSED GIRDERS FOR HIGHWAY BRIDGES ...... 457 M. Moravcik, P. Bujnakova
HIGH LEVEL ENGINEERING FOR STAY CABLE REPLACEMENT...... 465 E. Mellier
PARALLEL STRAND HANGERS FOR THE REFURBISHMENT OF LAS AMERICAS BRIDGE IN PANAMA ...... 466 P. Ladret, G. Medina, E. Mellier, G. Fernandez
WHERE CREATIVITY MEETS STRENGTH ...... 477 M. Poser
TESTING OF FULLSCALE PRE-STRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 508 N. Velling, R. Lindberg, J. Rantala
THE OPARNO ARCH BRIDGE APPLICATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY FOR CLASSICAL STRUCTURE...... 521 M. Kalny, V. Kvasnicka, P. Nemec, R. Broz, J. Vitek
ALTERNATIVE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION FOR WORLI END CONNECTOR OF BANDRA-WORLI-SEA- LINK PROJECT ...... 530 S. Joglekar, D. Kanhere, A. Ralkar
TIME DEPENDENT EFFECTS IN CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES BUILT BY SEGMENTAL CONSTRUCTION ...... 539 C. Casalegno, M. Sassone, M. Chiorino
LONG ELEVATED ROAD OF 2.385 KM LENGTH OVER EXISTING MAIN ROAD, CROSSING TEN JUNCTIONS AT LALBAUG IN MUMBAI, INDIA, ...... 555 C. Alimchandani, D. Kanhere, S. Sambhus
REHABILITATION OF EXISTING PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SUPERSTRUCTURE AND SUBSEQUENT REPLACEMENT OF THE SAME FOR BRIDGE ACROSS GHAGGAR RIVER, INDIA...... 563 A. Samuel, S. Joglekar
THE RION – ANTIRION BRIDGE: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ...... 574 P. Papanikolas, A. Stathopoulos-Vlamis
THE BEHAVIOR OF RION – ANTIRION BRIDGE DURING THE EARTHQUAKE OF “ACHAIA-ILIA” ON JUNE 8, 2008...... 587 P. Papanikolas, A. Stathopoulos-Vlamis, A. Panagis, A. Pecker, S. Infanti
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BRIDGE OVER THE EBRO RIVER IN ZARAGOZA ...... 606 J. Pablo, G. Miguel, H. Pereda, J. Aparicio
ROAD BRIDGE “WILD” – APPLICATION OF THE UHPFRC PRECAST SEGMENTAL CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR AN ARCH STRUCTURE...... 626 M. Reichel, B. Freytag, L. Sparowitz
COMPUTERIZED IN-DEPTH INSPECTION OF THE ZILWAUKEE BRIDGE...... 636 V. Morisseau, B. Kroely
EXAMPLE OF BRIDGE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM APPLIED BY TOLL BRIDGES AGENCIES IN EUROPE...... 644 V. Morisseau, A. Vlamis-Stathopulos, B. Kroely
CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIVER SUIR IN WATERFORD (IRELAND)...... 653 M. Astiz, J. Manterola, J. Munoz-Rojas, A. Santos, L. Blanco, S. Fernandez
BUILDING DURABLE CONCRETE STRUCTURES IN THE ARABIAN GULF ...... 663 D. Liu, G. John
METRORREY’S LINEA 2 EXTENSION VIADUCT IN MONTERREY, MEXICO: A REVOLUTION FOR LIGHT RAIL CONCRETE SEGMENTAL BRIDGES ...... 679 J. Baamonde, A. Benitez
FEASIBILITY OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BOX GIRDER BRIDGES USING WEB MONOSTRANDS...... 693 M. Rambo-Roddenberry, J. Goni, H. Spear
BRIDGE AESTHETICS-SOME ISSUES ...... 706 V. Heggade
DISTRIBUTION OF LIVE LOAD REACTION AT PIERS OF SKEWED CONTINUOUS PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES ...... 720 X. Huo, Q. Zhang
THE EGG-GRABEN BRIDGE A STRUCTURE WITHOUT MILD STEEL REINFORCEMENT...... 731 J. Berger, J. Kollegger, F. Brandauer, W. David, H. Leitner
THE SECOND SHIBANPO BRIDGE – WORLD’S LONGEST GIRDER SPAN ...... 739 A. Liu, Z. Jiang, Z. Ma, X. Liu
THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF JIAYUE BRIDGE ...... 753 D. Yin, A. Liu, C. Du, G. Liu
SHENYANG SANHAO BRIDGE ...... 763 Z. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Fu, A. Liu
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND WUJIANG BRIDGE...... 772 G. Ren, Z. Jiang, D. Yin, C. Du
DURABILITY PERFORMANCE CRITERIA OF CLOSURE POUR MATERIALS FOR CIP CONNECTIONS...... 781 P. Zhu, Z. Ma
DEVELOPMENT OF TWO KINDS OF NEW ERECTION METHOD FOR THE RATIONALIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION IN URBAN VIADUCTS ...... 798 T. Sakimoto, H. Mizuno, A. Morohashi, S. Kawano
LOADING TEST OF EXTRADOSED BRIDGE SEGMENT – EXTRADOSED BRIDGE IN POVAŽŠKÁ BYSTRICA...... 807 M. Chandoga, A. Pritula, J. Sedlak, J. Kucharik
EXPERIMENTAL AND IN SITU STUDY OF BRIDGE BEAMS SUPPORTED BY BOTTOM EXTERNAL TENDONS...... 819 M. Chandoga, A. Jarosevic, J. Sedlak, E. Sedlak
REPAIR WORKS OF THE TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL AFTER THE FIRE OF SEPTEMBER 2008...... 828 V. Mauvisseau, M. Kahan, P. Zanker, B. Petit
DEVELOPING THE FRAGILITY CURVES OF BRIDGES BEFORE AND AFTER RETROFITTING BY FRP ...... 844 R. Mohammadi, H. Lahijanian
ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE LIGHT-WEIGHT DECK FOR MOVEABLE BRIDGES ...... 854 M. Saleem, A. Mirmiran, J. Xia, K. Mackie
IMPACT DAMAGE REPAIR OF PRESTRESSED GIRDER IN NEBRASKA...... 862 M. Baishya, S. Gogoi, M. Laviolette, B. Niazi
SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE BRIDGE DESIGN - THE BEARINGS AND EXPANSION JOINTS OF THE GOLDEN EARS BRIDGE ...... 875 T. Spuler, G. Moor, C. O'Suilleabhain
AUTOMATED STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING – FILLING A KNOWLEDGE GAP...... 884 T. Spuler, G. Moor, R. Berger
MULTI-SPAN EXTRADOSED VIADUCT IN POVAZSKA BYSTRICA, SLOVAKIA ...... 893 J. Strasky, M. Matascik, R. Novak, K. Taborska
RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN DESIGN OF STRESS RIBBON BRIDGES ...... 903 J. Strasky
SEGMENTAL CONSTRUCTION – PROTECTING INTERNAL POST-TENSIONING TENDONS FOR 100- YEAR SERVICE LIFE...... 918 L. Krauser
PRECAST PRESTRESSED CONCRETE DECK BULB TEE BRIDGES...... 938 M. Baishya, S. Gogoi, M. Laviolette
VOLUME 2
CAN THE STUD SPACING BE EXTENDED TO 1220 MM (48 INCHES) FOR COMPOSITE PRECAST BRIDGE DECK PANEL SYSTEMS? ...... 946 S. Badie, M. Tadros, A. Girgis, K. Sriboonma
LOCAL ANCHORAGE ZONES IN LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE...... 976 C. Roberts-Wollmann, D. Axson
DESIGN AND DETAILING OF DIAPHRAGMS IN THREADED ROD CONTINUITY SYSTEMS...... 989 A. Stubbe, K. Hanna, G. Morcous, M. Tadros
U-CONCEPT VIADUCT – PRECAST SEGMENTAL APPLICATION TO UIJEONGBU LRT PROJECT (SOUTH KOREA)...... 1009 M. Akraa, E. Pruvost, A. Paumier
NEW TOP DOWN CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR THE WASHINGTON BYPASS PROJECT NORTH CAROLINA ...... 1019 E. Homsi, M. Mallett, P. Lefave
USE OF STITCHED PRECAST SEGMENTAL I GIRDERS FOR SUPERSTRUCTURE: IDEAL SOLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT...... 1031 R. Varadkar, M. Jain, U. Rajeshirke
THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF FLORIDA’S FIRST POSTTENSIONED DUCT COUPLERS ...... 1038 T. Barry, R. Bennett Jr.
INNOVATIVE FIELD-CAST UHPC JOINTS FOR PRECAST BRIDGE DECKS (SIDE-BY-SIDE DECK BULB- TEES), VILLAGE OF LYONS, NEW YORK: DESIGN, PROTOTYPING, TESTING AND CONSTRUCTION ...... 1054 V. Perry, M. Royce
FULL SPAN PRECAST PRE-TENSIONED DECKS: THE FUTURE OF ELEVATED URBAN METRO VIADUCTS ...... 1067 A. Mhedden, P. Vion, J. Vollery
A LARGE BALANCED CANTILEVER BRIDGE WITH HIGH PIER COLUMN - PLAN AND DESIGN OF KAWASHIMOGAWA BRIDGE PROJECT - ...... 1080 Y. Igase, T. Akiyama, K. Saito, H. Kobayashi
CONSTRUCTION OF A METRO LINE SERVING THE HOLY SITES OF MAKKAH IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA...... 1091 A. Mhamed, H. Zainalabidien, P. Moine, M. Kashani, M. Stack
SAFETY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BENT CAPS SUBJECTED TO ASR/DEF DETERIORATION ...... 1108 D. Deschenes, O. Bayrak
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF SPLICED SEGMENTAL GIRDERS USING ENHANCED POST TENSIONING SYSTEMS...... 1119 C. Glaser, A. Jeong-Saeng, W. Finckh
EXTRA-DOSING GIRDER BRIDGES IN INDIAN SUB CONTINENT...... 1129 V. Heggade, S. Pattiwar
CALIFORNIA PRECAST BRIDGE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION IN PAST TEN YEARS ...... 1146 K. Thompson, J. Ma
THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRECAST BRIDGE DECK OVERHANG SYSTEM ...... 1166 T. Ley, R. Browne, J. Abrams, R. Gonzalez, L. Bussell, M. Padron, F. Valles
CONCRETE FILLED STEEL TUBES FOR ANCHORING BARS AND STRANDS – CONCEPT AND PROTOTYPE TESTING ...... 1188 H. Weiher, J. Schulz, M. Rohringer, K. Zilch
FATIGUE AND TENSILE TESTS OF A 55 STRANDS SADDLE SYSTEM...... 1195 M. Schlaich, A. Abdalsamad
A REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN CONCEPT FOR POST-TENSIONED I-TYPE BRIDGE GIRDERS...... 1208 M. Han, S. Choi, Y. Jeon, K. Jin, H. Kim
CREEP EFFECTS AND STRESS ADJUSTMENTS IN CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES WITH CONCRETE DECK ...... 1217 M. Arici, M. Granata, P. Margiotta, A. Recupero
EUGENE FREYSSINET – HIS INCREDIBLE JOURNEY TO INVENT AND REVOLUTIONIZE PRESTRESSED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION...... 1227 P. Xercavins, D. Demarthe, K. Shushkewich
ENGINEERING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STONECUTTERS BRIDGE CONCRETE BACKSPANS ...... 1255 G. Morgenthal, R. Sham, K. Yamane
USE OF STEEL DIAPHRAGMS IN PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES ...... 1266 Y. Chen, P. Navarro
PRECAST COMPOSITE SLAB SPAN SYSTEM (PCSSS): FIELD INVESTIGATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...... 1291 Catherine E. French, Carol K. Shield, Matthew Smith, Whitney Eriksson, Dave Klaseus
INSTRUMENTATION AND MONITORING OF I35W ST. ANTHONY FALLS BRIDGE ...... 1304 Brock D. Hedegaard, Catherine E. W. French, Carol K. Shield, Henryk K. Stolarski, Ben Jilk
UPGRADE OF GENEVA AIRPORT RUNWAY – « THE TUNNEL DE FERNEY » PERFORMANCE BASED CONCRETE STRUCTURES COMBINED WITH AN ORIGINAL AND OPTIMIZED CONSTRUCTION METHOD ...... 1315 Jean-François Klein
RATIONAL SHEAR ANALYSIS FOR MULTI-CELLULAR CONCRETE BOX SECTIONS ...... 1326 Y. Frank Chen, Michael J. Borzok
DESIGN OF THE INDIAN RIVER INLET BRIDGE ...... 1339 Benjamin T. Soule
SPALLING OF PARTIAL-DEPTH PRECAST-PRESTRESSED BRIDGE DECK PANEL INVESTIGATION USING GPR ...... 1351 Kandi Wieberg, Lesley H. Sneed, Abdeldjelil Belarbi, Neil Anderson
LIFTING AND REHABILITATION OF A 40-YEAR OLD MULTISPAN POSTTENSIONED CONCRETE BRIDGE ...... 1368 Maximilian M. Fuchs, Thomas Wurbs
THE EFFECT OF CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY FORMWORK ON CARBONATION-INDUCED CORROSION...... 1375 Philip McKenna
A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE USE OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE (HSC) AND HIGH- STRENGTH SELF CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE (HS-SCC) FOR ACCELERATED CONSTRUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES ...... 1383 Kurt E. Bloch, Wei Zheng, John J. Myers
A PRECAST BRIDGE BENT SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC REGIONS...... 1402 Olafur S. Haraldsson, Jason B. K. Pang, John F. Stanton, Marc O. Eberhard
“LA VICARIA” ARCH ...... 1415 Santiago Pérez-Fadón, Jose Emilio Herrero, Luis Martín-Tereso, Marcos Sánchez
INFLUENCE OF STRENGTHENING OF BRIDGE PIERS ON SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF FOUNDATION ...... 1429 Anawat Chotesuwan, Hiroshi Mutsuyoshi, Takeshi Maki
FRICTION DAMPERS ON INCHEON BRIDGE, PERFORMANCE PREDICTION AND IN SITU TEST ...... 1438 Rachid Annan, Mathieu Guile, Byul Shim, Sang-Sup Ahn, Jong-Ho Yang
DOWNFALL OF A ROAD BRIDGE DURING REPAIR ...... 1452 Milan Holický, Jana Marková, Miroslav Sýkora
INCORONATA VIADUCT: SALERNO – REGGIO CALABRIA HIGHWAY – LANE NORTH” STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES WITH EXTERNAL POST-TENSIONING...... 1460 Stefano Danna, Tommaso Ciccone, Fabrizio Averardi Ripari
THE CHIHANI SUSPENSION BRIDGE COMPLETE OVERHAUL...... 1468 Cesare Prevedini, Tommaso Ciccone, Fabrizio Averardi Ripari, Marcello Petrangeli, Marco Petrangeli
SENSOR BASED ASSESSMENT OF SOIL-STRUCTURE-INTERACTION ...... 1478 Roman Wendner, Alfred Strauss, Konrad Bergmeister, Michael Reiterer
DESIGN OF CAST-IN-PLACE BALANCED CANTILEVER BRIDGES IN TURKEY ...... 1487 Alp Caner
INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF BRIDGE BEARINGS AND EXPANSION JOINTS...... 1497 Lojze Bevc, Philip McKenna
MONTABLIZ VIADUCT, CANTABRIA (SPAIN) ...... 1508 Marcos J. Pantaleón, Roberto Revilla, Patricia Olazábal
INNOVATIONS IN CANTILEVER FORMING TRAVELERS FOR BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION...... 1520 Michael Broichgans, Alfred Preuer
NEW BRIDGE OVER LLOBREGAT RIVER, CATALUÑA (SPAIN)...... 1532 Marcos J. Pantaleón, Roberto Revilla, Patricia Olazábal
NEW BRIDGE OVER EBRO RESERVOIR, CANTABRIA (SPAIN) ...... 1543 Marcos J. Pantaleón, Roberto Revilla, Patricia Olazábal
FOOTBRIDGE RONDA BAHIA, CANTABRIA (SPAIN)...... 1549 Marcos J. Pantaleón, Roberto Revilla, Patricia Olazábal
NU PRECAST-PRESTRESSED CONCRETE PILE SPLICING...... 1563 Quinton Patzlaff, Kromel Hanna, Maher K. Tadros
CONTINUED APPLICATION OF PRECAST PRESTRESSED CONCRETE FOR RAPID PAVEMENT RECONSTRUCTION...... 1576 David K. Merritt, Samuel S. Tyson
DEVELOPMENT OF A DESIGN METHOD FOR REINFORCEMENT-FREE DECKS USING A MODIFIED STRUT-AND-TIE MODEL AND A CONSTRUCTION CASE STUDY ...... 1590 Michael G. Oliva, Lawrence C. Bank, Han Ug Bae
ELEVATED LIGHT RAIL DESIGN IN HIGH SEISMIC AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AND/OR CONGESTED URBAN AREAS...... 1601 Daniel Tassin, Christopher Hall, Patrick Malone
TESTING OF SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE FOR DRILLED SHAFTS IN A RURAL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT IN WEST VIRGINIA ...... 1619 Roger H. L. Chen, Joseph G. Sweet, Kyle B. Baranowski
BURSTING AND SPALLING IN PRETENSIONED CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 1633 David A Dunkman, Catherine G Hovell, Andrew M Moore, Alejandro Avendaño, Oguzhan Bayrak, James O Jirsa
EARLY-AGE PERFORMANCE OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS USING STEEL AND GFRP REINFORCEMENT ...... 1645 Jeong-Hoon Choi, Roger H. L. Chen
REPLACEMENT OF THE DOYLE DRIVE THE SOUTH ACCESS TO THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE ...... 1659 Ahmed M. M. Ibrahim, Majid Madani, Ofelia P. Alcantara
SEISMIC DESIGN OF BRIDGES CROSSING FAULT RUPTURE ZONES...... 1674 Foued Zayati
THE NEW I-35W BRIDGE – A MODERN CONCRETE BRIDGE FOR THE FUTURE ...... 1687 Kevin Western, Alan R. Phipps
EFFECT OF DETERIORATION-INDUCED CRACKS ON THE MODAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 1696 Tamas Kovacs
EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF DECK PLACEMENT TIME ON THE BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE PRETENSIONED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS ...... 1705 Brian D. Swartz, Andrew Scanlon, Andrea J. Schokker
DESIGN OF LONG LIFE CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING HIGH PERFORMANCE REINFORCING STEELS ...... 1717 Zoubir Lounis, Jieying Zhang, Husham Almansour
INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF PRECAST CONCRETE ON COMPLEX BRIDGE PROJECTS IN COLORADO...... 1727 Gregg A. Reese
EXPERIENCE IN THE LONG-TERM MONITORING OF BRIDGES...... 1741 Olivier L. Burdet
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PRECAST PRESTRESSED CONCRETE PAVEMENT IN INDONESIA ...... 1751 Tommy Nantung, Jodi Firmansjah, Endro Suwarto, Harya Mitra Hidayat
DESIGN AND EXECUTIVE CONTROL OF THREE CURVED BOX GIRDER BRIDGES IN S.PAULO...... 1774 D. Berger, M. Waimberg, F. R. Stucchi
LOWERING MANOEUVRE ON CONCRETE SEMI ARCHES FOR THE DEZA VIADUCT IN SPAIN ...... 1789 Raimon Rucabado, Antonio Moreno, Miguel Angel Calvo, Pedro Táboas
DISTRIBUTION OF LIVE LOAD REACTION AT PIERS OF SKEWED CONTINUOUS PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES ...... 1806 X. Sharon Huo, Qinghe Zhang
MONITORING BASED ANALYSIS OF A CONCRETE FRAME BRIDGE “MARKTWASSER BRIDGE”...... 1817 Alfred Strauss, Roman Wendner, Konrad Bergmeister, Dan M. Frangopol
PERFORMANCE-BASED DURABILITY CONTROL FOR PRECAST CONCRETE ELEMENTS...... 1828 Hans Beushausen, Jochen Knecht, Mark Alexander, Karsten Schubert
BUILDING SYSTEMS
SHEAR RESISTANCE OF PRE-TENSIONED HOLLOW CORE SLABS – TEST RESULTS VS. STANDARDS...... 1839 Andrzej B. Ajdukiewicz, Alina T. Kliszczewicz, Marek Weglorz
LARGE PROJECTS AND INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES: INNOVATIVE APPLICATION OF LARGE-SPAN ROOF ELEMENT AT BENGALURU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, INDIA...... 1852 S. Kanappan, K. K. Prasanna
ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRENGTHENING USING EXTERNALLY BONDED FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITE SYSTEMS TO SHOW COMPLIANCE WITH THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE ...... 1864 Mahmut Ekenel, Brian Gerber, Bohdan N. Horeczko
NEW PRECAST LIGHT FLOORING SYSTEM ...... 1873 Rafael Bellmunt, Oriol Pons
MODERN HYBRID STRUCTURES MADE OF UHPC AND HIGH STRENGTH STEEL...... 1884 Josef Hegger, Sabine Rauscher, Joerg Gallwoszus
VOLUME 3
WEDGE ANCHORAGE FOR NEAR SURFACE MOUNTED APPLICATIONS - STRENGTHENING OF STRUCTURES BY USING PRESTRESSED CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED STRIPS...... 1896 Alois F. Vorwagner, Stefan L. Burtscher
INNOVATIVE DAMPING SYSTEM FOR STRUCTURES ...... 1912 Philipp Egger, Christian Neubauer, Johann Kollegger
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE STEEL - REINFORCED CONCRETE (SRC) COLUMNS...... 1920 Štefan Gramblicka, Pavol Valach, Slavomír Matiaško
STUDY ON DAMAGE CONTROLLED PRECAST-PRESTRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURE WITH P/C MILD–PRESS–JOINT PART4: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CRUCIFORM FRAME WITH FLOOR SLAB CONSTRUCTED USING PC-MILD-PRESS JOINT METHOD...... 1932 Hiroyasu Sakata, Hajime Sakagami, Akira Wada, Yasuhiro Matsuzaki
PERFORMANCE-BASED RETROFIT OF ATHENS NATIONAL GALLERY...... 1943 Vasilios G. Bardakis, John Stathopoulos, George Ferentinos, Konstantinos Liontos
POST-TENSIONING TECHNOLOGY IN SPORTS ARENAS ...... 1955 Thomas Richli, Berislav Medic, Kresimir Bogadi, Bartosz Lukijaniuk
NEW ANCHORING DEVICE FOR PRESTRESSING CFRP LAMINATES...... 1967 Paulo França, António Costa
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST CABLE AND ROD IN VANKE CENTER CABLE TRANSFER STRUCTURE...... 1978 Jianzhong Yang, Ni Wang, Xueyi Fu, Honghai Liu
BOND CAPACITY OF CFRP-PLATES EXTERNALLY BONDED TO RC STRUCTURES UNDER FATIGUE LOAD...... 1989 Harald Budelmann, Ulf Husemann, Thorsten Leusmann
STRUCTURAL PRECAST CONCRETE IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA...... 1997 S. R. Hughes, Crisp, B. C.
INNOVATIVE WALL CONSTRUCTION MADE OF FOAM SCC AND TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE...... 2013 Rebecca Mott, Julia Steinhoff, Wolfgang Brameshuber
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CATENARY ACTION OF RC BEAM-COLUMN SUBASSEMBLAGES ...... 2020 Jun Yu, Kang Hai Tan
MACROMODEL-BASED SIMULATION OF CATENARY ACTION OF RC BEAM-COLUMN SUB- ASSEMBLAGES ...... 2034 Jun Yu, Kang Hai Tan
CE MARKED POST-TENSIONING KITS AN INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART POST-TENSIONING...... 2046 Marcel Poser, Markus Traute, Erik Mellier, Hans Rudolf Ganz
ELECTRO-CHEMICAL TREATMENTS FOR CORRODED PIERS IN MONTE CARLO...... 2053 Naziha Berramdane, Erik Mellier, Christian Tourneur
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF HOLLOW CORE SLABS...... 2063 Carlos M. Araujo, Daniel D. Loriggio, Jose Camara
VIRTUES OF SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES ...... 2074 V. N. Heggade
SUPPORTING THE CODES: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS CONFIRM THEORETICAL APPROACHES, SHOWN BY EXAMPLE OF A NEW GENERATION OF ANCHOR CHANNELS ...... 2094 Matthias Roik
PUNCHING SHEAR STRENGTH OF HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS ...... 2103 René Suter, Lionel Moreillon
PRECAST CONCRETE LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT—CRADLE TO OCCUPANCY...... 2114 Emily Lorenz
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON PRESTRESSED COMPOSITE BEAMS WITH CORRUGATED WEB...... 2120 Kang-Su Kim, Deuck-Hang Lee, Yong-Sik Bang, Kyoung-Wan Kal, Jin-Ha Hwang, Hyun-Jin Ju
STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR OF HOLLOW CORE FLOORS WITH OPENINGS: A PARAMETRIC NUMERICAL STUDY ...... 2132 Patrizia Bernardi, Roberto Cerioni, Ivo Iori, Elena Michelini
A THERMALLY EFFICIENT, FULLY COMPOSITE PRECAST/PRESTRESSED CONCRETE MASS WALL: THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND THERMAL IMAGING RESULTS AFTER OCCUPANCY...... 2145 Harry Gleich, Jay Cariveau
SHALLOW FLAT SOFFIT PRECAST CONCRETE FLOOR SYSTEM ...... 2151 George Morcous, Maher K. Tadros
PRESTRESSED CONCRETE GIRDERS - INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENTS...... 2165 M. Empelmann, Ch. Sender
FULL-FIELD LATERAL RESPONSE INVESTIGATION OF HYBRID PRECAST CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS...... 2175 Brian J. Smith, Michael J. McGinnis, Yahya C. Kurama
PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN OF PUNCHING SHEAR REINFORCING SYSTEMS...... 2187 Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Aurelio Muttoni
THERMALLY EFFICIENT PRECAST CONCRETE SANDWICH LOAD BEARING WALL PANELS REINFORCED WITH CFRP...... 2202 Gregory Lucier, Sami Rizkalla, Tarek Hassan
SHEAR STRENGTH OF MULTI TEE RIBBED SLABS WITH WELDED WIRE FABRIC AS SHEAR REINFORCEMENT ...... 2220 Sung-Gul Hong, Min-Ki Kim, Eun-Sung Kim, Namhee Kim Hong
CABLE BRACING SYSTEM TO RESIST WIND FORCES ON A TALL BUILDING IN MIAMI ...... 2230 Muhammad Azhar Saleem, Muhammad Mazhar Saleem
SLABS ON GROUND - CRACKFREE DUE TO AIR SUPPORTED SLIDE BEARING ...... 2238 Anton Schweighofer, Johann Kollegger
STEEL FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS – INNOVATIVE AND FAST CONSTRUCTION METHODS...... 2249 M. Empelmann, M. Teutsch, V. Henke
BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF FULL-SCALE PRECAST DOUBLE-TEES REINFORCED WITH CFRP...... 2259 Gregory Lucier, Sami Rizkalla, Larbi Sennour, Harry Gleich
THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF THE GERARD L. CAFESJIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN YEREVAN, ARMENIA...... 2275 Anton M. Nelson
NEW ANCHORING METHOD FOR PRESTRESSED FRP REINFORCEMENT ...... 2290 Petr Stepanek, David Horak, David Durech
CYCLIC TEST TO FAILURE OF PRE-DAMAGED RETROFITTED RC BUILDING ...... 2302 Stathis N. Bousias, Michael N. Fardis, Ilias Strepelias, Xenofon Palios
CONNECTION STUDY OF BLAST DESIGN FOR PRECAST COMPONENTS ...... 2312 Charles J. Oswald, David C. Morgan
STAY-IN-PLACE GFRP FORMWORK ...... 2326 Peter Koteš, Josef Vican
MAXIMIZING THE BENEFIT OF PRECAST/PRESTRESSED COMPONENTS IN BLAST RESISTANT STRUCTURES ...... 2337 Michael E. Dixon, Degan G. Hambacher, Tom C. Gabbert
PRESTRESSED HOLLOW CORE SLABS ...... 2352 Bruna Catoia, Marcelo A. Ferreira, Roberto C. Carvalho, Libanio M. Pinheiro
LATERAL LOAD RESISTANCE OF L-SHAPED CORE-WALLS FOR TALL BUILDINGS ...... 2363 Susumu Kono, Kazuma Inada, Masanubu Sakashita, Hisataka Sato
OPTIMIZED NU SANDWICH PANEL SYSTEM FOR ENERGY, COMPOSITE ACTION AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY ...... 2373 George Morcous, Maher K. Tadros, Mark Lafferty, Doug Gremel
FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF RC T-BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH DIFFERENT FRP MATERIALS...... 2386 Tiago Carvalho, Carlos Chastre, Hugo Biscaia, Raquel Paula
RESEARCH ON LARGE BAY RESIDENTIAL SYSTEM WITH PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLAB...... 2398 Jianlin Nan, Dabin Feng
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH-BASED INNOVATION – AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO CREATE MORE ATTRACTIVE CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 2405 Tor Arne Hammer, Einar Aassved Hansen
SIMULATED AND TESTED SEISMIC RESPONSE OF POST-INSTALLED METAL ANCHORS IN CONCRETE...... 2415 Anton Rieder, Konrad Bergmeister
U. S. PHILOSOPHY FOR PRECAST CONNECTIONS...... 2424 Thomas J. D'Arcy
DESIGN OF ENERGY EFFICIENT PARTIALLY-COMPOSITE SANDWICH WALL PANELS USING FIBER COMPOSITE POLYMER (FRP) WYTHE CONNECTORS ...... 2443 Venkatesh Seshappa, Kim E. Seeber
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ANALITICAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE PROBLEM OF CABLE BENDING ...... 2460 Antonio Caballero, Marcel Poser
WORKABILITY OF A FRICTIONAL DAMPER IN A SHALLOW CABLE: ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK ...... 2472 Antonio Caballero, Marcel Poser
EMPIRICAL METHOD TO ESTIMATE LONG-TERM DEFLECTIONS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS...... 2482 Franz A. Zahn, Jose I. Restrepo
ALTERNATIVE DETAIL OF THE CONNECTION REINFORCEMENT FOR COLUMNS AND WALLS FIXED AT THE FOOTING...... 2495 Franz A. Zahn
FIB MODEL CODE 2010- CHAPTER 9:CONSERVATION OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 2508 Stuart L. Matthews, Tamon Ueda, Agnieszka J. Bigaj-Van Vliet
SEISMIC BEHAVIORS AND DUCTILITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS WRAPPED WITH CFRP SHEETS...... 2521 Liu Hang, Li Chenguang, Yang Xuezhong
SHEAR STRENGTH OF CYLINDRICAL CONCRETE COLUMNS: PROPOSAL FOR STANDARDS ...... 2532 Jose Turmo, Gonzalo Ramos, Angel C. Aparicio
FIRE RESISTANCE OF METAL ANCHORS FOR THE USE IN CONCRETE...... 2541 Gerhart Lange
STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE TANKS IN A LARGE EFFLUENT TREATING PROJECT ...... 2551 Liu Hang, Li Chenguang, Wu Wenqi, Yang Xuezhong
BOND TESTS AND ON-SITE STRUCTURAL CONCRETE QUALITY CONTROL...... 2563 Michel Lorrain, Monica Pinto Barbosa, Maurice Arnaud
NUCLEAR REACTOR CONTAINMENTS – EVALUATION OF PRESTRESS LOSSES AND PREDICTION MODELS...... 2573 Peter L. M. Lundqvist
VALIDATION OF A THERMO-MECHANICAL MODEL FOR RC SLABS DURING FIRE...... 2593 Emmanuel Annerel, Luc Taerwe
SIA 269/2 – A NEW SWISS CODE FOR THE CONSERVATION OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 2603 Daia Zwicky
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A WAFFLE SLAB IN A REDUCED MODEL SUBMITTED TO LINEAR LOADING...... 2616 Paulete F. Schwetz, Fracisco P. S. L. Gastal, Luiz Carlos P. Silva
CRACK RISK MINIMIZATION IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES UNDERGOING HYGROTHERMAL PHENOMENA...... 2632 Cristina Zanotti, Alberto Meda, Giovanni Plizzari, Stefano Cangiano
HIGH STRENGTH FULL-SCALE BEAMS UNDER FLEXURE AND SHEAR: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY...... 2644 Fausto Minelli, Giovanni A. Plizzari
PRECAST CONCRETE STRUCTURES ASSESSMENT WITH THE DIRECT DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN...... 2654 Andrea Belleri, Paolo Riva
EFFECT OF AXIAL LOAD ON THE SHEAR-TRANSFER MECHANISM DURING SHEAR DAMAGE PROGRESS IN R/C COLUMNS...... 2666 Yasuji Shinohara
IMPLEMENATION OF A BIM 3D MODELING TOOL IN A HISTORIC 2D ENVIRONMENT...... 2682 Beth A. Mitchell
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF HALF-PREFABRICATED PRESTRESSED REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS...... 2692 Susumu Inoue, Nobuhiko Minamino
CRACKING OF PRE-TENSIONED STRUCTURES...... 2704 Pier Giorgio Debernardi, Maurizio Taliano
COMPARISON BETWEEN REFINED AND SIMPLIFIED MODELS ABOUT THE MEAN CURVATURE OF R.C. BEAMS IN SERVICE CONDITIONS...... 2715 Pier Giorgio Debernardi, Matteo Guiglia, Maurizio Taliano
SHEAR STRENGTH OF BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS UNDER SEISMIC LOADING – FIBER EFFECTIVENESS...... 2726 Giuliana Somma
EVALUATION OF THE DIAGONAL COMPRESSION CAPACITY OF REINFORCED HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 2736 Ken Watanabe, Chikaharu Kobayashi, Junichiro Niwa
APPLICATION OF 150 MPA ULTRA-HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE FOR A 59-STORY RC BUILDING IN A SEISMIC REGION ...... 2746 Hideki Kimura, Tadao Ueda, Kenro Mitsui
REINFORCING DIKES WITH SHEET PILES MADE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE ...... 2761 Cornelis Van Der Veen, C. Rene Braam, Math Pluis
MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY AND POD AND ITS INFLUENCE REMAINING SERVICE LIFE EVALUATION ...... 2774 Sylvia Kessler, Christoph Gehlen
FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE IN THE NEW FIB MODEL CODE...... 2787 Marco Di Prisco, Giovanni Plizzari, Lucie Vandewalle
ASSESSMENT OF THE CHARACTERISTIC STRENGTH OF CONCRETE FROM SMALL SAMPLES BASED ON BAYESIAN UPDATING WITH PRIOR INFORMATION...... 2799 Robby Caspeele, Luc Taerwe
BAYESIAN UPDATING OF THE SAFETY LEVEL OF CONCRETE ELEMENTS USING INFORMATION FROM TEST RESULTS AND CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT ...... 2810 Robby Caspeele, Luc Taerwe
CONCRETE HINGES – HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTEMPORARY USE ...... 2822 Steffen Marx, Gregor Schacht
SHEARWALL IN AN OFFICE BUILDING ...... 2844 Ludovit Follo, Vladimir Benko, Jaroslav Halvonik
VOLUME 4
BOND BEHAVIOUR OF PRESTRESS STEEL STRANDS BONDED WITH AN POXY ADHESIVE AND A CEMENT GROUT FOR FLAT SLAB TRENGTHENING PURPOSES – EXPERIMENTAL STUDY...... 2856 Duarte V. Faria, Valter G. Lucio, Antonio P. Ramos
BUILDING DOUBLE CURVED SHELLS FORM PLANE PLATES ...... 2866 Sonja Dallinger, Johann Kollegger
SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE ULTIMATE LOAD OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE COLUMNS...... 2875 Axel Remont, Marie Herode, Hugues Somja, Jean Claude Dotreppe
STEEL HOLLOW COLUMNS FILLED WITH SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE UNDER FIRE CONDITIONS ...... 2889 Jean Claude Dotreppe, Thi Binh Chu, Jean Marc Franssen
INFLUENCE OF BAR CONTINUITY ON BEHAVIOUR OF LAPPED SPLICES...... 2904 Giovanni Metelli, John Cairns, Giovanni Plizzari
LATERAL-TORSIONAL BUCKLING EXPERIMENTS ON RECTANGULAR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 2916 Jonathan Hurff, Lawrence Kahn
TENSION STIFFENING OF TENSION MEMBERS UNDER HIGHLY REPEATED LOADS...... 2927 Carlos Zanuy, Luis Albajar, Pablo De La Fuente
APPLICATION OF ACTIVE SPACE PROPPING SYSTEM IN STRUCTURAL RETROFIT ...... 2937 Chunkai He, Ni Wang
KHALSA HERITAGE COMPLEX, PUNJAB, INDIA: CONVERTING ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY TO REALITY IN STRUCTURAL CONCRETE...... 2945 Mahesh Tandon, Vinay Gupta
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF BEAMS UNDER PREVALENT SHEAR ACTIONS...... 2953 Gabriele Bertagnoli, Giuseppe Mancini, Antonino Recupero, Nino Spinella
COMPARISON BETWEEN NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL CYCLIC RESPONSE OF ALTERNATIVE COLUMN TO FOUNDATION CONNECTIONS OF REINFORCED CONCRETEC PRECAST STRUCTURES...... 2965 Ettore Faga, Lorenzo Bianco, Davide Bolognini, Roberto Nascimbene
STRUT-AND-TIE MODELS TO DESIGN BRIDGE SUBJECTED TO HORIZONTAL ACTIONS...... 2976 Mauro Mezzina, Fabrizio Palmisano, Domenico Raffaele
ESTIMATING EXTREME THERMAL ACTIONS IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES...... 2990 Oskar Larsson
DURABILITY CLASS OF CONCRETE ...... 3006 Dan Paul P. Georgescu, Adelina-Carmen I. Apostu, Radu Gh. Pascu
INFLUENCE OF TEXTILE REINFORCEMENT ON THE PRINCIPLE STRESS CONDITION OF STRENGTHENED RC BEAM...... 3016 Regine Ortlepp, Anett Bruckner, Manfred Curbach
DESIGNING FOR BLAST LOADING: ROBUSTNESS IN THE FACE OF COLUMN COLLAPSE IN RC STRUCTURES ...... 3026 Alejandro Perez Caldentey, Andrea Facchini, Francesco Manna, Francesco Dalpont
FULL-FIELD DISPLACEMENTS OF CFRP TO CONCRETE PULL-OFF BOND TESTS...... 3035 Christoph Czaderski, Masoud Motavalli
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF TWO 173 M TALL NATURAL DRAUGHT COOLING TOWERS AT HISSAR IN INDIA...... 3043 C. R. Alimchandani, Shriram N. Patwardhan
WIND EFFECTS ON LARGE DIAMETER TALL RC CHIMNEYS – OMPARISON OF INDIAN CODE, ACI CODE, CICIND CODE AND WIND UNNEL TESTS ...... 3052 Subhashchandra G. Joglekar, Shriram N. Patwardhan
DESIGN OF LARGE DIAMETER 275 M TALL REINFORCED CONCRETE CHIMNEY WITH TRIPLE STEEL FLUES AT SASAN, INDIA...... 3063 Subhashchandra G. Joglekar, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Shriram N. Patwardhan
DURABILITY OF ADHESIVELY BONDED COMPOSITE REINFORCEMENTS FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 3074 Sylvain Chataigner, Marjorie Rabasse, Marc Quiertant, Karim Benzarti, Christophe Aubagnac
STRUT-AND-TIE MODELS UTILIZING CONCRETE TENSION FIELDS...... 3086 Karl-Heinz Reineck
EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL BEHAVIOUR OF LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE BEAMS REINFORCED WITH GLASS-FIBER RODS...... 3098 Mohamed El Zareef, Mike Schlaich
BEHAVIOUR OF THE JOINTS BETWEEN LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE BEAMS AND NORMAL CONCRETE COLUMNS IN SEISMIC REGIONS...... 3110 Mohamed El Zareef, Mike Schlaich
BEHAVIOR OF ANCHORS IN HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETES ...... 3122 Norbert Randl, Oliver Gusella
EXISTING CONCRETE SILOS – LESSONS FROM INSPECTION, DIAGNOSIS, REHABILITATION AND STRENGHTENING...... 3134 Augustin Popaescu, Ovidiu Deaconu
DDBD OF PRECAST PRESTRESSED ROCKING WALLS WITH MILD STEEL DISSIPATERS: NON- DIMENSIONAL PARAMETRIC APPROACH ...... 3145 Vassilis Mpampatsikos, Davide Bolognini
REPAIR OF FIRE DAMAGED LOAD-BEARING CONCRETE COLUMNS...... 3158 Hanna Aho, Timo Inha, Jussi Mattila, Matti Pentti
TENSION-STIFFENING RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON DESIGN CODE PROVISIONS ...... 3169 Gintaris Kaklauskas, Viktor Gribniak, Rokas Girdzius, Povilas Vainiunas, Darius Bacinskas
SHORT-TERM DEFLECTIONS OF RC MEMBERS: CODES VERSUS FE MODELING ...... 3177 Viktor Gribniak, Cervenka Vladimir, Gintaris Kaklauskas, Darius Bacinskas
NEW RESEARCH RESULTS ON CONCRETE AESTHETICS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN GERMANY ...... 3190 Ludger Lohaus
MULTI-PARAMETRIC NLP OPTIMIZATION OF SINGLY REINFORCED CONCRETE RECTANGULAR BEAMS ...... 3198 Ildiko Merta, Stojan Kravanja
SLENDERNESS INFLUENCE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF CIRCULAR CONCRETEFILLED STEEL TUBULAR COLUMNS UNDER AXIAL LOADS ...... 3208 Walter Luiz A. De Oliveira, Ana Lucia H. C. El Debs, Silvana De Nardin, Mounir Khalil El Debs
HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE CORBELS CAST IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE COLUMN FOR PRECAST CONCRETE CONNECTIONS...... 3218 Mounir K. El Debs, Jonatas B. A. Costa, Ana Lucia El Debs
MULTIPLY CONNECTED REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES WITH REASONABLE PARAMETERS ...... 3228 V. S. Shmukler, G. A. Molodchenko
ADAPTIVE STRESS FIELD MODELS FOR STRUCTURAL CONCRETE ...... 3238 Miguel Lourenco, Joao Almeida
RION – ANTIRION BRIDGE PROJECT – CONCRETE DURABILITY TOWARDS CORROSION RISK...... 3257 Francois Cussigh, Christophe Carde, Panayotis Papanikolas, Aris Stathopoulos
ABUTMENT SHEAR WALL OF VIADUCT 1 ON ALGARVE HIGHWAY ...... 3274 Joao Almeida, Miguel Lourenco
APPROXIMATE ASSESSMENT OF SEISMIC RESISTANCE AND SAFETY OF EXISTING MULTISTORY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS...... 3290 Stephan Schwarz, Edward Leibovitch, David Z. Yankelevsky
DESIGN OF T-JOINTS IN AN OFFSHORE CONCRETE TERMINAL...... 3307 Hannes Ludescher, Stein Atle Haugerud
MODELLING THE AGEING OF CONCRETE UNDER NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL CONDITIONS ...... 3322 Olli-Pekka J. Kari, Jari A. Puttonen
MODELING SHEAR CAPACITY OF BEAMS LONGITUDINALLY AND TRANSVERSELY REINFORCED WITH ASTM A1035 STEEL ...... 3332 Admasu S. Desalegue, Adam S. Lubell
INFUENCE OF UNCERTAIN VERTICAL LOADS AND ACCELERATIONS ON THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF AN RC BUILDING...... 3348 Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Christos Zeris
REAL STRAIN EVOLUTION IN CONCRETE COLUMNS, MONITORING RESULTS AND CEB-FIP MODEL CODE 1990...... 3361 Branko Glisic, Daniele Inaudi, Joo Ming Lau, Chor Cheong Fong
PERFORMANCE-BASED PLASTIC DESIGN (PBPD) OF RC SPECIAL MOMENT FRAME STRUCTURES ...... 3371 Wen-Cheng Liao, Subhash C. Goel
CONCRETE-TO-CONCRETE BONDS - POTENTIALS FOR NEW STRUCTURES AND REHABILITATION ...... 3382 Peter Lenz, Konrad Zilch
PERFORMANCE LIMITS FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS UNDER SEVERE DISPLACEMENT CYCLES ...... 3393 Bora Acun, Haluk Sucuoglu
EFFORTS REDISTRIBUTION IN THE "BASE–FOUNDATION–BUILDING" SYSTEM WITH PLASTO- ELASTIC SOIL BASE DEFORMATION ...... 3405 Alla Morgun, Ivan Met
NUMERICAL METHOD OF BOUNDARY ELEMENTS IN APPLIED RESEARCHES OF PLATE-PILE FOUNDATION BEHAVIOR OF HIGH–RISE BUILDINGS ...... 3413 Alla Morgun, Andriy Nitsevych
DESIGN MODEL FOR SFRC FLAT SLABS WITH OPENINGS IN THE COLUMN AREA ...... 3419 Julien Michels, Daniele Waldemann
TESTING OF LARGE CONCRETE CYLINDERS CONFINED WITH FRP...... 3429 Scott T. Smith, Seo Jin Kim
PROGRESSIVE FAILURE OF BALCONIES OF A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN MARINGÁ (BRAZIL) ...... 3439 Rafael Alves De Souza, Mauro Jose De Souza Araujo
CO2 EMISSION FROM PRECAST CONCRETE SYSTEM WITH MICROPILE...... 3450 Isamu Yoshitake, Yoshikazu Inatomi, Andrew Scanlon, Fusanori Miura
THERMAL CRACKING PREVENTION WITH UNBONDED STEEL TENDONS IN CYLINDRICAL CONCRETE TANK WALL RESTRAINED AT FOUNDATION SLAB ...... 3459 Andrzej S. Seruga, Rafal S. Szydlowski
DIRECT SEISMIC DESIGN FOR ASSIGNED PERFORMANCE PROBABILITIES ...... 3475 Paolo Franchin, Paolo Pinto
TOWARDS EFFICIENT SHEAR REINFORCENT DESIGN LIMITS IN PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 3485 Alejandro R. Avendano, Oguzhan Bayrak
LIMITS TO PLASTIC ANALYSIS DESIGN DUE TO SIZE-SCALE EFFECTS ON THE ROTATIONAL CAPACITY OF PLASTIC HINGES ...... 3498 Mauro Corrado, Marco Paggi, Alberto Carpinteri
STRESS FIELD ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL CONCRETE BEAMS...... 3510 Viktor Sigrist, Britta Hackbarth
TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE UNDER ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ...... 3520 Adam M. Knaack, David J. Kirkner, Yahya C. Kurama
CRACKING AND SHRINKAGE IN SPECIAL WORKS A REVIEW OF DIFFERENT CALCULATION METHODS...... 3531 Francis Barre, Phillippe Bisch, Daniele Chauvel, Jacques Cortada
EXPERIMENTAL TESTS ON PRECAST TUNNEL SEGMENTS IN FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE...... 3541 Angelo Caratelli, Alberto Meda, Zila Rinaldi, Paolo Romualdi, Pietro Perruzza
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF TALL BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO LATERAL LOADS: EFFECTS OF BRACINGS OF DIFFERENT HEIGHT...... 3551 Alberto Carpinteri, Mauro Corrado, Giuseppe Lacidogna
REDUCING THE DISCREPANCY IN CALCULATED SHEAR CAPACITY AT THE TRANSITION FROM A DEEP TO SLENDER BEAM...... 3563 David B. Birrcher, Robin G. Tuchscherer, Oguzhan Bayrak
SEMISPACE FEM ELEMENT AND SOIL – STRUCTURE INTERACTION ...... 3574 Radim Cajka
STRUCTURE FIRE RESISTANCE: A JOINT APPROACH BETWEEN MODELLING AND FULL SCALE TESTING (SUBSTRUCTURING SYSTEM) ...... 3588 Fabienne Robert, Serge Rimlinger, Cedric Collignon
TRAIN TERMINAL FORUM BUENAVISTA ...... 3601 Mario Onate, Francisco Ambia, Eduardo Zamora
LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE CONCRETE GIRDERS MADE CONTINUOUS...... 3629 Snezana R. Masovic, Sasa R. Stosic
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF PRECAST CONCRETE RIBBED WALL WATER TANKS PRESTRESSED WITH EXTERNAL UNBONDED TENDONS ...... 3640 Andrzej S. Seruga, Dariusz H. Faustmann
EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS PROGRAMS ...... 3655 Joseph M. Danatzko, Halil Sezen
THEORETICAL MODELING OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE MEMBERS SUBJECTED TO SHEAR CONSIDERING BOND STRENGTH OF PT TENDONS...... 3668 Masanori Tani, Minehiro Nishiyama
PUSHOVER ANALYSES OF PRECAST STRUCTURAL WALL BUILDINGS ...... 3682 Beatrice Belletti, Antonello Gasperi, Ivo Iori, Paolo Riva
EVALUATION OF SHEAR DESIGN PROCEDURES FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE MEMBERS ...... 3697 Jaeman Lee, Minehiro Nishiyama, Masanori Tani
INSTABILITY PROBLEMS – INVESTIGATION OF PCRITICAL JOINT UNDER MOMENT LOADS...... 3712 Velvet Karatzas, Elisabeth Karatzas
UNIQUE CONCRETE STRUCTURES TAILOR-MADE WITH THE USE OF SCC, ROBOTS AND DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE ...... 3729 Mette Glavind, Thomas Juul Andersen, Lars Thrane
CONVERSION OF LARGE CAST-IN –PLACE SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES TO PRECAST...... 3739 Chad A. Van Kampen, Alex Mihaylov
INFLUENCE OF THE RANDOMNESS OF THE MECHANICAL PARAMETERS ON THE SEISMIC DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF R/C FRAMES...... 3753 Fabrizio Comodini, Marco Mezzi
CHALLENGES IN THE CREEP BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF THIN-WALLED CONCRETE SHELLS ...... 3763 Ehab Hamed, Mark A. Bradford
SHEAR FAILURE OF LARGE CONCRETE BEAMS: PART I – MATERIAL PARAMETERS IDENTIFICATION...... 3774 David Lehky, Drahomir Novak, Vladimir Cervenka
SHEAR FAILURE OF LARGE LIGHTLY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS: PART II – ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL SAFETY OF RESISTANCE...... 3784 Vladimir Cervenka, Jiri Dolezel, Drahomir Novak
LISBOA METRO – PORTUGAL – EXPANSION OF THE RED LINE ALAMEDA II – SÃO SEBASTIÃO II: SALDANHA II STATION – CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION...... 3795 Rute Viegas, Antonio Flor, Gisela Frias
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CONSTRUCTION AND EXPLOITATION OF SEISMIC REINFORCEMENT METHOD FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS USING MULTILAYER THIN STEEL SHEETS ...... 3810 Reiko Seki, Tadayoshi Ishibashi, Daisuke Tsukishima, Kengi Shinoda, Mareki Kuraocha
FLEXURAL PERFORMANCE OF CONCRETE BEAMS REINFORCED WITH BASALT FRP BARS...... 3821 Anil Patnaik, Sudeep Adhikar, Pouya Bani Bayat, Paul Robinson
PERFORMANCE OF FRP CONFINEMENT ON NON CIRCULAR MEMBERS...... 3834 Gian Piero Lignola, Andrea Prota, Gaetano Manfredi, Edoardo Cosenze
LONGITUDINAL SHEAR BEHAVIOR AND ANALYSIS OF CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE TOPPINGS REINFORCED WITH CARBON FIBER GRIDS ...... 3844 Rudolf Sercino, Hartley R. Grimes, Sami Rizkala, Gregg Blaszak
NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE WALLS THAT MINIMIZE RESIDUAL DRIFTS UNDER SEISMIC LOADING...... 3856 Tetsuya Ohmura, Gregor G. Deierlein
COMPOSITE INSULATED PRECAST WALL PANELS WITH SHEAR TRANSFER PROVIDED BY CARBON FIBER GRID...... 3868 Yoo Jae Kim, Harold Messenger, Tom Harmon
RESPONSE OF ISOLATED REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS RETROFITTED WITH NSM CFRP STRIPS IN AXIAL TENSION...... 3877 Arifur Rahman, Yail J. Kim
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS TO CURRENT SHEAR-FRICTION PROVISIONS OF MODEL CODE ...... 3886 Pedro M. D. Santos, Eduardo N. B. S. Julio
RETROFITTING OF AN EXISTING RC STRUCTURE USING EC8 - PART 3 ...... 3907 Christis Z. Chrysostonou, Nicholas Kyriakides, Michael Pittas
PRECAST CONCRETE COLUMN CONNECTIONS FOR EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH...... 3920 Popa Viorel, Radu Pascu, Dragos Cotofana
STUDY OF PERVIOUS CEMENT CONCRETE MADE OF AGGREGATES RECYCLED FROM DEMOLISHED CONCRETE WASTES...... 3931 Prakash Parasivamurthy, A. V. Pramod, Veena Jawali, B. V. Kiran Kumar
NOVEL DESIGN APPROACHES FOR SHEAR LOADED FASTENINGS IN CONCRETE...... 3941 Panagiotis Spyridis, Andreas Unterweger, Konrad Bergmeister
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH STRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURES AS PROTECTION WORKS FOR TORRENT CONTROL IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS ...... 3956 Jurgen Suda, Johannes Hubl, Konrad Bergmeister
SAFETY ASPECTS REEXAMINATION OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE STRUCTURES ...... 3968 Ane De Boer, Cornelis Van Der Veen
VULNERABILITY OF RC BUILDINGS AND RISK ASSESSMENT FOR CYPRUS...... 3980 Nicholas Kyria, Kypros Pilakoutas, Kristis Chrysostomou
TESTING AND MECHANISTIC ANALYSIS OF ANCHORAGES IN CONCRETE CLOSE TO THE EDGE ...... 3993 Ronald Mihala, Anton Rieder, Raimund Hilber, Konrad Bergmeister
SHEAR CAPACITY OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS WITH STIRRUPS ...... 4002 Jan Lingemann, Julia Sauer, Konrad Zilch
SHEAR CAPACITY OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS WITHOUT STIRRUPS ...... 4011 Julia Sauer, Jan Lingemann, Oliver Fischer, Konrad Zilch
APPLICATIONS OF STRESS FIELDS TO ASSESS THE BEHAVIOR AND STRENGTH OF COUPLING BEAMS SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC ACTIONS...... 4020 Sergio F. Brena, Miguel Fernandez Ruiz, Aurelion Muttoni
STATE OF THE ART POST-TENSIONING FOR NUCLEAR CONTAINMENTS...... 4030 Jean-Baptiste Domage, Sebastien Elias, Jean-Marie Laurens
PROBABILISTIC OPTIMIZATION OF DESIGN FOR CRACKING ...... 4042 Milan Holicky
INTEGRATIVE DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES BASED ON INSPECTION- AND MONITORING INFORMATION...... 4052 Alfred Strauss, Konrad Bergmeister
GROUPS OF ANCHORAGES CLOSE TO THE EDGE UNDER OBLIQUE LOADING...... 4064 Stefan Lachinger, Panagiotis Spyridis, Andreas Unterweger, Konrad Bergmeister
DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN METHOD FOR CONCRETE FILLED STEEL BOX (CFSB) FOOTING...... 4078 Muhammad Aun Bashir, Tamon Ueda, Hitoshi Furruchi
COMPARISON OF CFRP STRENGTHENING EFFICIENCY OF BENT RC ELEMENTS USING STIFF AND FLEXIBLE ADHESIVES...... 4090 Wit Derkowski, Arkadiusz Kwiecien, Boguslaw Zajac
TENSILE CAPACITY OF HEADED STUDS AS A FUNCTION OF CONCRETE TENSILE STRENGTH ...... 4102 Marcus L. Knight
DEVELOPING STANDARDIZED GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF SHEAR-CRITICAL RC BEAMS BASED ON NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODELING...... 4118 Beatrice Belletti, Max A. N. Hendriks, Joop A. Den Uijl, Cecilia Damoni
FAILURE MODE OF FATIGUE BREAK BY DETECTION OF MICRO CRACKS ...... 4132 Andreas Unterweger, Ronald Mihala, Panagiotis Spyridis, Konrad Bergmeister
EFFECTIVENESS OF CONFINEMENT FOR STRESS LOCALIZATION AT FREE EDGES OF FRP WRAPS ...... 4139 Alberto Zinno, Gian Piero Lignola, Andrea Prota, Gaetano Manfredi, Edoardo Cosenze
SHEAR CAPACITY OF 50 YEARS OLD REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK WITHOUT SHEAR REINFORCEMENT ...... 4149 Yuguang Yang, Joop Den Uijl, Gerrie Dieteren, Ane De Boer
POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE FLAT SLABS WITH SHEAR REINFORCEMENT IN PUNCHING SHEAR ...... 4161 Alessandra L. Carvalho, Guilherme S. Melo, Ronaldo B. Gomes
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE PRESHAPED BEAMS UNDER FLEXURE...... 4169 Denio Ramam Carcalho De Oliveira, Jose Guilerme Silva Melo
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRECAST RC WALL PANELS WITH CUT-OUT OPENINGS RETROFITTED BY EXTERNALLY BONDED CFRP COMPOSITES ...... 4175 Istvan Demeter, Tamas Nagy-Gyorgy, Valeriu Stoian, Cosmin A. Daescu, Daniel Dan
INCREASING SEISMIC CAPACITY OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS BY THE USE OF FRP AND STEEL FUSE ELEMENTS ...... 4183 A. Murat Turk, Mustafa Comert, Cumhur Cosgun, M. Gokhan Kesti
SIMPLIFIED ASSESSMENT OF BENDING MOMENT CAPACITY FOR RC MEMBERS WITH CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION ...... 4195 Edoardo Cosenza, Carmine Galasso, Giuseppe Maddaloni
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CLIMATIC TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS IN A RC BUILDING SLAB...... 4206 Edoardo Consenza, Carmine Galasso, Giuseppe Maddaloni
DESIGN CONCEPT FOR BUTT-JOINTED IN-SITU CONCRETE COLUMNS ACORDING TO EUROCODE 2...... 4215 Jens Minnert, Markus Blatt
THE COMPREHENSIVE CRACK-RESISTING METHOD FOR SUPER-LONG PRESTRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURES ...... 4227 Dabin Feng, Jianlin Nan
PRECAST ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE REPLACES STONE AND GRANITE ON BUILDING FAÇADE ...... 4237 Gamal Ghoneim, Raafat El-Hacha, Gerald Carson, Don Zakariasen
EXPERIENCES FROM L’AQUILA 2009 EARTHQUAKE...... 4252 Marco Menegotto
CONCRETE STRUCTURES OF THE "OLYMPIYSKIY" NATIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX IN KIEV ...... 4261 Yuriy Slyusarenko, Petro Kryvosheyev, Juriy Serjogin, Igor Kozjavkin
THE EVALUATION OF BRIDGES RESPONSE UNDER A SPATIAL VARYING GROUND MOTION...... 4270 Alessio Lupoi
COMPLEX INVESTIGATIONS OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETES FOR CAST-IN-SITU CONSTRUCTION OF MASSIVE STRUCTURES, ROADWAY AND AIRFIELD COVERINGS ...... 4286 Iuriy I. Nemchynov, Genrikh G. Girshtel
DEBONDING ON CONCRETE MEMBERS OF LAMINATES AND NSM FRP SYSTEMS ...... 4292 Antonio Bilotta, Francesca Ceroni, Marco Di Ludovico, Emidio Nigro, Maria Rosaria Pecce
A SIMPLIFIED DESIGN FORMULA FOR INTERMEDIATE DEBONDING FAILURE IN RC BEAMS EXTERNALLY STRENGTHENED BY FRP ...... 4304 Ciro Faella, Enzo Martinelli, Emidio Nigro
REINFORCED CONCRETE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN WITH TRUSS TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION...... 4312 Cristopher D. Moen, James K. Guest
PRESTRESSED CONCRETE OIL TANKS ...... 4323 Jan L. Vitek, Jiri Strasky, Milos Zich, Pavel Kasal
COULD WE HAVE UNIFIED CODES ON FUTURE METEOROLOGIC ACTIONS FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES? ...... 4334 Peter Lenkei
DEVELOPMENT AND TESTS OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE SADDLE SYSTEM...... 4341 Rachid Annan, Adrian Gnagi
MATERIALS
COMBINED ACID AND SULFATE ATTACK ON CONCRETE DUE TO OXIDATION OF SULFIDE MINERALS IN THE CONSTRUCTION GROUND...... 4351 Rolf Breitenbucher, Bjorn Siebert
BASIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE MEMBERS AFTER FIRE ...... 4364 Emmanuel Annerel, Luc Taerwe
BOND STRENGTH AND RIB GEOMETRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF DEFORMATION PATTERNS ON ANCHORAGE BOND STRENGTH...... 4374 Michel S. Lorrain, Luciane F. Caetano, Bruno V. Silva, Lara E. S. Gomes, Monica P. Barbosa, Luiz Carlos P. Silva Filho
CRACKING IN FRC R/C ELEMENTS: A PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ...... 4386 Fausto Minelli, Giuseppe Tiberti, Giovanni A. Plizzari
EFFECTS OF USING NON-FRESH WATER ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT MORTARS AND CONCRETE ...... 4398 Khalifa S. Al-Jabri, Ramzi Abd Taha, Abdullah H. Al-Saidy
POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF CEMENTS WITH THE MAIN CONSTITUENTS LIMESTONE, GRANULATED BLASTFURNACE SLAG AND FLY ASH ...... 4408 Christoph Muller, Katrin Severins
INFLUENCE OF TEST METHODS ON EVALUATION OF CONRETE PERMEABILITY ...... 4420 Faguang Leng, Wei Ding, Xiankun Ji, Jing Wang, Yongxiang Zhou, Gengxin He
TOWARDS A TAILORED STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR FOR FRP CONFINED LOW STRENGTH CONCRETE...... 4432 Mustafa Comert, Caglar Goksu, Alper Ilki
STUDY ON CHLORIDE PENETRATION AND DIFFUSIVITY IN TERNARY BINDER CONCRETE...... 4441 B. N. Krishnaswami, P. Natarajan
FAIR-FACED CONCRETE – POSSIBLE CAUSES FOR DISCOLORATIONS ...... 4453 Joerg Rickert
DETERMINATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SELFCOMPACTING CONCRETE AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES...... 4471 Daniele Waldmann, Sandro Weisheit
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE SHORT-TERM STIFFNESS FOR PPC BEAMS WITH FRP TENDONS ...... 4482 Luxiang Meng, Xuekang Tao
DUCTILITY EVALUATION OF UHTCC REINFORCED STRUCTURAL MEMBERS ...... 4490 X. F. Zhang, S. L. Xu
FLEXURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ULTRAHIGH TOUGHNESS CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE BEAMS WITH DIFFERENT DEPTHS ...... 4499 Shilang Xu, Lijun Hou, Xiufang Zhang
STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF PC BRIDGES IN SEVERE CHLORIDE ENVIRONMENT ...... 4508 Tomoshige Kamotani, Hidenori Morikawa
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON SPALLING OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE...... 4521 Eike W. Klingsch, Andrea Frangi, Mario Fontana
CORROSION PROPERTIES OF PRESTRESSING STEELS WITH RESIDUAL AIR VOID IN GROUT ...... 4542 Shoji Nojima, Suguru Tokumitsu, Kyoji Niitani, Toyoaki Miyagawa
COMPARISON OF THE STRAIN-SOFTENING BEHAVIOUR OF CONVENTIONAL VIBRATED CONCRETE AND SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE...... 4554 Pieter Desnerck, Geert De Schutter, Luc Taerwe
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITE TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE – DEFINITIONS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS ...... 4564 Frank Jesse, Dirk Jesse
ENHANCED STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE AND CONSTRUCTABILITY OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS THROUGH THE USE OF STEEL FIBERS ...... 4581 Shih-Ho Chao, Jae-Sung Cho, Netra B. Karki, Joe Lundy
HIGH PERFORMANCE SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE WITH LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT...... 4596 Tobias Azevedo Da Costa Pereira, Jefferson Benedicto Libardi Liborio
STUDY OF STRENGTH, MODULUS OF ELASTICITY, ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY AND CONDUCTIVITY OF SOIL-CEMENT MIXTURE...... 4606 Manish Pal, Partha Pratim Sarkar, Dipankar Sarkar, Kaberi Majumdar
DURABILITY STUDY OF HOT-DIP GALVANISED REINFORCEMENT BARS IN CARBONATED AND CHLORIDE-CONTAMINATED CONCRETE ...... 4618 Esko V. P. Sistonen, Jari A. Puttonen
FRACTURE CRITERION FOR ALL CONCRETES – NORMAL, LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH- AND ULTRA- HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE ...... 4628 Kerstin Speck, Manfred Curbach
SHEAR TRANSFER CAPACITY ALONG VIBRATED AND SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE INTERFACES ...... 4643 Catherine G. Papanicolaou, Vassiliki Vassilopoulou
A QUALITATIVE MODEL FOR THE ACTION OF SHRINKAGE-REDUCING ADMIXTURES IN HARDENED CEMENT PASTE...... 4655 Patrick Schaffel
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND MODULUS OF ELASTICITY FOR ORDINARY AND HIGH-STRENGTH NORMAL AND SEMI-LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETES ...... 4673 Amir Tarighat, Khaled Khaledi
USE OF ALTERNATIVE REINFORCEMENT MATERIALS TO ENHANCE DURABILITY...... 4686 Andrea Mercalli, Livia Pardi, Ranieri Cigna
SPACERS FOR ELEMENTS MADE OF TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE ...... 4700 Ilko Hartung, Stefan Bohm, Klaus Dilger, Rebecca Mott, Wolfgang Brameshuber
TOWARDS A STANDARD PULL-OUT TEST SPECIMEN: GEOMETRICAL SPECIFICATIONS...... 4713 Moncef Makni, Atef Daoud, Mohamed Ali Karray, Michel Lorrain
EFFECT OF BLAST FURNACE SLAG ON THE STRENGTH DEVELOPMENT OF CONCRETE...... 4723 Ozkan Sengul, Odd E. Gjorv
WHICH CONCRETE COMPOSITION MAKES EXCELLENT ATTRACTIVE CONCRETE SURFACES? ...... 4731 Ludger Lohaus, Karen Fischer
MODIFIED TESTING PROCEDURE FOR GROUND WATER...... 4740 Vijay T. Ganpule
VOLUME 6
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BOND BETWEEN STEEL BARS AND SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE WITH STEEL FIBER...... 4758 R. E. Garzon Reyes, F. M. Almeida Filho, M. K. El Debs, A. L. H. C. El Debs
CORRELATION OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH WITH ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY IN CONCRETE: EFFECT OF PASTE VOLUME, MATRIX MODIFICATION, AND AGE OF TEST ...... 4768 Shashi S. Marikunte, Samik Das
AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGE OF MORTAR AT VERYEARLY AGE: EFFECT OF RECYCLED AGGREGATES: EFFECT OF RECYCLED AGGREGATES...... 4781 Assia Djerbi, Tien Dung Nguyen, Sandrine Ramanich
CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE CONTAINING FLY ASH WITH HG-ADSORBENT: PRELIMINARY RESULTS...... 4791 Mehrdad Mahoutian, Vivek Bindiganavile, Adam Lubell
DESTRUCTIVE FACTORS CAUSING DETERIORATION OF COATINGS ON BUILDINGS WALLS...... 4807 Ruta Miniotaite
TIME-DEPENDENT DEFORMATIONS OF PRETENSIONED, SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE ...... 4819 Kelly R. Levy, Robert W. Barnes, Anton K. Schinder
TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE (TRC) FOR STRENGTHENING OF RC STRUCTURES - REPORT OF A PRACTICAL APPLICATION ...... 4833 Frank Schladitz
DUCTILITY OF FIBER-REINFORCED SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE IN COMPRESSION...... 4834 Bernardino Chiaia, Alessandro P. Fantilli, Paolo Vallini
RC SLABS WITH TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE (TRC) UNDER FIRE LOADING...... 4846 Daniel Ehlig, Frank Jesse, Manfred Curbach
EFFECTS OF MINERAL ADMIXTURES ON COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND RAPID CHLORIDE PERMEABILITY OF MORTARS...... 4859 Hasan Yildirim, Onur Yilmaz, Ozkan Sengul
FAILURE OF BEAMS RETROFITTED WITH NEAR SURFACE MOUNTED FRP REINFORCEMENT: EXPERIMENTAL WORK ...... 4867 Van Hien Nguyen, Maurizio Guadagnini, Kypros Pilakoutas, Van Nam Le
USE OF WATER DEMAND AND CONSISTENCY PREDICTION MODELS AS STEERING ELEMENTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONCRETE...... 4877 Peter Minne, Robby Caspeele, Geert De Schutter
RELIABLE SHRINKAGE AND CRACK DESIGN: CEOS.FR FRENCH NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM, EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS ...... 4888 Louis Demilecamps
FRP-ENCLOSED SELF-PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS – DEVELOPMENT OF OPTIMIZED SHRINKAGE-COMPENSATING CONCRETE ...... 4902 Qi Cao, Zhongguo John Ma
EFFECT OF CURING CONDITIONS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LIGHT-WEIGHT SELF CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE...... 4913 Maria Kaszynska
CORROSION OF REINFORCING STEEL IN STRAIN HARDENING FIBER REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES...... 4922 Shaikh Faiz Uddin Ahmed, Hirozo Mihashi
CORROSION PROPERTIES OF HIGH STRENGTH STAINLESS STEELS IN VIEW OF A USE AS PRESTRESSING STEEL...... 4936 Ulf Nurnberger, Yuan Wu
COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF BEAMS USING GFRP AND STEEL REINFORCEMENTS ...... 4951 Urmil Dave, Urvesh Barot
FIB-RECOMMENDATION 'STRUCTURAL DESIGN WITH FLOWABLE CONCRETE'...... 4961 Steffen Grunewald, Liberato Ferrara, Frank Dehn
CONCRETE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES ...... 4971 Gyorgy L. Balazs, Eva Lubloy
FOUR-LAYERED SANDWICH PANELS WITH GFRP-CONNECTORS...... 4988 Jurgen Schnell, Matthias Pahn
ESTIMATION OF CREEP COEFFICIENT IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING THE MEASURED DISPLACEMENTS...... 4998 Jong-Bum Park, Ho Park, Jae-Yeol Cho
EFFECT OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONFINEMENT ON BOND STRENGTH BETWEEN LAP-SPLICED BARS AND CONCRETE...... 5008 Dionysis A. Bournas, Thanasis T. Triantafillou
A DISCUSSION ABOUT EXISTENT STANDARDS AND PROCEEDINGS TO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TESTS IN CONCRETE...... 5025 Julia W. Lencioni, Maryangela G. De Lima
ANALYTICAL ESTIMATION OF THE BOND EFFICIENCY OF VARIOUS RIB PATTERN REINFORCING BARS WITH ACCOUNT OF CONCRETE STRENGTH...... 5038 Aleksei Semchenkov, Vladimir Mechkov
DURABLE METHODS FOR CORROSION CONTROL ON REINFORCED CONCRETE OF TORRE VELASCA IN MILAN...... 5051 Luca Bertolini, Federica Lollini, Elena Redaelli, Paola Ronca
COMBINED EFFECTS OF SUSTAINED LOAD AND LOW TEMPERATURE ON CONCRETE GIRDERS PRESTRESSED USING CARBON FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER (CFRP) RODS ...... 5065 Reza Saiedi, Amir Fam, Mark Green
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTGATION ON GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE WITH METAKAOLIN AS ADMIXTURE...... 5076 C. Sashidhar, H. Sudarsana Rao, Vaishali G. Ghorpade
SPECIFYING ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT...... 5084 Larry Rowland
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PRESTRESSING STEEL AT HIGH TEMPERATURE...... 5095 Seongjun Im, Minehiro Nishiyama, Masanori Tani
EFFECT OF CURING ON THE DURABILITY OF EXPOSED AGGREGATE PAVEMENT...... 5108 Jens Skarabis, Christoph Gehlen, Ellen Oehlerich
DURABILITY OF PAVEMENTS CONCRETE MADE WITH FLY ASH ...... 5120 Jens Skarabis, Christoph Gehlen
CONCRETE COVER: THE OFTEN FORGOTTEN DEFENSIVE LINE ...... 5129 Philip McKenna
STRENGTHENING WITH NEAR SURFACE MOUNTED REINFORCEMENT: STRUCTURAL AND FIRE BEHAVIOR ...... 5137 Aniello Palmieri, Stijn Matthys, Luc Taerwe
BOND OF DEFORMED REINFORCEMENT OVER DIRECT SUPPORT IN PLAIN AND FIBER REINFORCED NSC AND HSC ...... 5147 Avraham N. Dancygier, Amnon Katz
WATER PERMEABILITY OF SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE ...... 5155 Konstantinos G. Trezos, Ioannis P. Sfikas, Dimosthenis I. Pavlou
CONSTITUTIVE MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADHESIVES FOR CFRP SHEETS SUBJECTED TO HARSH ENVIRONMENTS...... 5165 Mozahid Hossain, Yail J. Kim
EFFECT OF SPECIMEN SIZE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE...... 5174 Jan Lingemann, Konrad Zilch
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LOW STRENGTH CONCRETE ...... 5183 Hideo Araki, Akira Yasojima
PREDICTION OF TIME TO SPALLING CAUSED BY REINFORCEMENT CORROSION ...... 5193 Satoshi Takaya, Takashi Yamamoto, Toyo Miyagawa
SELF-CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE AND ITS BOND TO REINFORCEMENT ...... 5204 Antonios Kanellopoulos, Michael F. Petrou, Ioannis Ioannou
IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON BOND OF NSM REINFORCEMENT...... 5216 Zsombor K. Szabo, Gyorgy L. Balazs
PERFORMANCE APPROACH USING ACCELERATED TEST METHOD FOR EXTERNAL SULFATE ATTACK ...... 5228 S. Messad, M. Carcasses, L. Linger, L. Boutillon
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF BOND FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES...... 5239 Jingjuan Li, Laura N. Lowes
EXPLORATION OF PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES ON THE PROPERTIES OF SELF CONSOLIDATING CONCRETE...... 5252 Roger H. L. Chen, Kyle B. Baranowski, Joseph G. Sweet
INFLUENCE OF THE MINERAL ADDITION ON THE DURABILITY OF MEDIUM STRENGTH SELF- COMPACTING CONCRETE...... 5262 Ester B. Bermejo, Jaime C. Galvez, Manuel F. Canovas, Amparo Moragues
SHRINKAGE AND CREEP OF MEDIUM-LOW STRENGTH SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE ...... 5274 Ester B. Bermejo, Jaime C. Galvez, Manuel F. Canovas
BOND REDUCTION BY EFFECT OF FATIGUE AND CORROSION...... 5286 Giordano Luca, Mancini Giuseppe, Tondolo Fracesco
USING EMBEDDED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MONITOR AND PREDICT BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE MEMBERS...... 5296 Yogini Deshpande, Devin K. Harris, Amlan Mulherjee, Aniket Waghchaure
A WAY TO IMPROVE THE BEHAVIOUR OF CONCRETE AT HIGH TEMPERATURE: ADDITION OF A COCKTAIL OF POLYPROPYLENE AND STEEL FIBRES ...... 5311 Prosper Pliya, Anne-Lise Beaucour, Albert Noumowe
THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE SLABS REINFORCED WITH FRP BARS IN CASE OF FIRE: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION...... 5328 Emidio Nigro, Giuseppe Cefarelli, Antonio Bilotta, Gaetano Manfredi, Edoardo Cosenza
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE SLABS REINFORCED WITH FRP BARS IN CASE OF FIRE: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION...... 5343 Emidio Nigro, Giuseppe Cefarelli, Antonio Bilotta, Gertano Manfredi, Edoardo Cosenza
RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF TENDON SYSTEM USING ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STRAND WITH EPOXY COATINGS...... 5358 Yasuhiro Hoshino, Toshiro Kido, Yoshiyuki Matsubara, Hideaki Sakai
GROUT MIX DESIGN: A NEW APPROACH RESPONDING TO STANDARD AND PROJECT REQUIREMENTS ...... 5373 Nadir Afif
ON CONCRETE – GFRP MEMBERS INTERFACE MODEL ...... 5380 Giosue Boscato, Salvatore Russo
UHPC
FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE UNDER CYCLIC STRESS REVERSAL LOADING ...... 5393 Birol Fitik, Roland Niedermeier, Konrad Zilch
STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH STEEL FIBERS AND REBARS...... 5403 Ekkehard Fehling, Torsten Leutbecher, Simone Sturwald
GLUED JOINTS OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE STRUCTURES...... 5413 Christian Muehlbauer, Konrad Zilch
TESTS ON SCALE EFFECT OF UHPFRC UNDER BENDING AND AXIAL FORCES ...... 5426 Karl-Heinz Reineck, Bjorn Frettlohr
RHEOLOGY OF UHPC - EFFECT OF SUPERPLASTICIZER AND SILICA FUME ON MIXING AND WORKABILITY OF UHPC...... 5440 Peter Schiebl, Oliver Mazanec, Dirk Lowke, Johann Plank, Christof Schrofl, Mirko Schmidt, Christoph Glotzbach, Dietmar Stephan
FIBRE DISPERSION, RHEOLOGY AND MIXING TIME OF FIBRE REINFORCED UHPC ...... 5460 Oliver Mazanec, Peter Schiebl, Christoph Gehlen
FLEXURAL RESPONSE OF LIGHTLY REINFORCED ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 5470 Todd M. Meade, Benjamin A. Graybeal
EFFECT OF COMPOSITION AND CURING ON MICROSTRUCTURE OF UHPC...... 5487 Bernd Moeser, Claudia Pfeifer, Detlef Heinze, Tobias Gerlicher, Viktor Mechtcherine, Lukas Dudziak
DURABILITY OF ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC)...... 5506 Christoph Muller, Susanne Palecki, Bernd Moser, Lutz Franke
POZZOLANIC REACTION OF SILICA FUME IN ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE ...... 5520 Claudia Pfeifer, Bernd Moeser, Christoph Weber, Jochen Stark
FAILURE MODELS FOR ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) ...... 5533 Jurgen Grunberg, Christian Ertel, Ludgar Lohaus, Maik Wefer, Manfred Curbach, Kerstin Speck, Roland Niedermeier, Birol Fitik
INFLUENCE OF REINFORCEMENT RATIO ON PERFORMANCES OF RUHTCC FLEXURAL MEMBERS...... 5544 Qinghua Li, Shilang Xu
TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC)...... 5556 Harald S. Muller, Isabel Burkart, Harad Mechtcherine, Lukasz Dudziak, Christoph Muller, Soren Eppers, Harald Budelmann, Jens Ewert
PREDICTION OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE CREEP AND SHRINKAGE – THE ROLE OF HEAT TREATMENT ...... 5571 Philippe Francisco, Farid Benboudjema, Patrick Rougeau, Jean-Michel Torrenti, Serge Rimlinger
PRETENSIONED UHPC BEAMS WITH AND WITHOUT OPENINGS ...... 5579 Guido Bertram, Josef Hegger
TESTING OF UHPC ...... 5589 M. Schmidt, S. Frohlich
TRIAXIAL FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) ...... 5600 Christian Ertel, Jurgen Grunberg
CRACKING BEHAVIOUR OF ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBER-REIFORCED CONCRETE: EFFECTS OF THERMAL DAMAGE ...... 5610 Hui Bian, Mokhfi Takarli, William Prince-Agbodjan, Laurent Molez
CONCRETE COLUMNS – NEW POSSIBILITIES FROM NPC UP TO UHPC ...... 5622 M. Empelmann, C. Muller
INVESTIGATIONS ON EMBEDDED SHEAR CONNECTORS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITE STRUCTURES ...... 5632 Christian Kohlmeyer, Wolfgang Kurz, Jurgen Schnell, Susanne Wiese
UHPC WITH MICRO-REINFORCEMENT ...... 5643 Martina Schnellenbach-Held, Melanie Prager
A STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUS CONCRETE WITH A FULL RANGE OF SECONDARY BYPRODUCTS POWDER FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION IN JAPAN...... 5656 Masaki Tamura, Kazuhisa Yoda, Masaki Oshima, Junichi Saito, Masao Azami
EFFECT OF AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGE BEFORE PRESTRESSING ON PRESTRESS LOSS OF PRETENSIONED PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS ...... 5666 Tomoaki Kawabata, Masahiro Suzuki, Ryoichi Sato
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WITH ULTRA-HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) – COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAM IN GERMANY...... 5677 Michael Schmidt
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION WITH ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE ...... 5689 Guido Bertram, Josef Hegger
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