Temperatures in bridges during the hot summer of 1976

摘要

The period 23 June to 8 July 1976 is believed to be one of the hottest experienced in this country within the last 250 years. During this period (23 June to 8 July 1976, not the last 250 years) temperatures were being measured in a solid concrete bridge, a composite bridge, in the surfacing of a concrete box bridge, in elevated concrete slabs and on steel plates. The main text of the Report presents the variations in surface temperatures and/or effective temperatures of these structures during those sixteen days, together with some of the maximum temperature differences measured through their different depths of construction. Temperatures measured on various types of surface, both on, and above, the ground are also mentioned.nThe Appendices contain details of the environmental conditions and compare the measured effective bridge temperatures with those predicted in previous Laboratory Reports.