Newest FRP Composites Bridge Deck Installed in Ohio

摘要

The National Composite Center (NCC) installed another FRP bridge deck under its Composites for Infrastructure program, on October 15. The project was a coordinated effort between NCC, Washington County engineer Bob Badger, Martin Marietta Composites (deck supplier) and Ohio West Virginia Excavating, the contractor. The FRP deck was installed on Cats Creek Rd. near Marietta in eastern Ohio. The five-inch-deep deck, weighing just 13 pounds per square feet (weight total of 25,064 lbs of Cs; 11.4 tonnes), was supplied by Martin Marietta Composites of Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a patented DuraSpan~(TM) pultruded deck system fabricated by Creative Pultrusions of Alum Bank, Pennsylvania.