Designing and Building with UHPFRC

Foreword xxvii

UHPFRC’09 Scientific Committee xxxi

UHPFRC’09 Sponsors xxxiii

PART I. GENESIS OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL 1

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is a UHPFRC? 3
Jacques RESPLENDINO

Chapter 2. UHPFRC: Science-driven Material Engineering Can Provide Sustainable Solutions 15
Paul ACKER and Franz-Josef ULM

Chapter 3. UHPFRC Development: Review of a Determining Application 21
Gérard BIRELLI

Chapter 4. UHPFRC Development: Experience with Ductal® Over the Past Two Decades 43
Jean-François BATOZ and Mouloud BEHLOUL

Chapter 5. UHPFRC Development: The Experience of BSI® Applications 63
Thierry THIBAUX

PART II. NOVEL ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS 77

Chapter 6. The Enrico Navarra Gallery 79
Rudy RICCIOTTI, Romain RICCIOTTI and Patrick MAZZACANE

Chapter 7. UHPFRC – A Material for Perforated Panels and Lattice Work: Controlling Shrinkage in Order to Experiment with Various Shapes 87
Dominique STOEUX, Jean-François BATOZ, Laurence JACQUES and Louis GUINGOT

Chapter 8. The Jean Bouin Stadium 101
Rudy RICCIOTTI, Guillaume LAMOUREUX and Romain RICCIOTTI

PART III. NEW FRONTIERS FOR BRIDGES 109

Chapter 9. The Passerelle des Anges Footbridge 111
Patrick MAZZACANE, Romain RICCIOTTI and François TEPLY

Chapter 10. Gärtnerplatz – Bridge over River Fulda in Kassel: Multispan Hybrid UHPC-Steel Bridge 125
Ekkehard FEHLING, Kai BUNJE and Michael SCHMIDT

Chapter 11. Construction of the PS34 UHPFRC Bridge 137
Olivier DELAUZUN, Damien ROGAT, Laurent BOUTILLON, Lionel LINGER and Christian CLERGUE

Chapter 12. The Innovation and Application of UHPFRC Bridges in Japan  149
Yoshihiro TANAKA, Koichi MAEKAWA, Yutaka KAMEYAMA, Akio OHTAKE, Hiroyuki MUSHA and Norio WATANABE

Chapter 13. Perspective on UHPCs from a Specialist Construction Company 189
Mark REBENTROST and Gavin WIGHT

Chapter 14. Road Bridge “Wild”: Application of the UHPFRC Precast Segmental Construction Method for an Arch Structure 209
Michael REICHEL, Bernhard FREYTAG and Lutz SPAROWITZ

Chapter 15. UHPC in the US Highway Infrastructure 221
Benjamin GRAYBEAL

Chapter 16. ITE® Beams, a Cost-effective Enduring Alternative to Filler-beam Decks 235
Ziad HAJAR, Marco NOVARIN, Alain SIMON, Thierry THIBAUX, Sandrine CHANUT and René-Gérard SALE

Chapter 17. UHPFRC Waffle Deck Concept for a Bridge at Livron-Loriol 249
Ferry TAVAKOLI, Sébastien BOUTEILLE and François TOUTLEMONDE

Chapter 18. UHPFRC Prototype for a Flexible Modular Temporary High-speed Railway Bridge 263
Michael REICHEL, Guido ALTERSBERGER and Lutz SPAROWITZ

Chapter 19. Effective use of UHPC for Deep Foundation Piles 279
Sri SRITHARAN, Tom VANDE VOORT and Muhannad SULEIMAN

Chapter 20. Design of Prestressed UHPFRC Girder Bridges According to Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code 295
Husham ALMANSOUR and Zoubir LOUNIS

PART IV. NEW EQUIPMENTS AND STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS 317

Chapter 21. CRC: Precast Applications of UHPFRC 319
Bendt AARUP

Chapter 22. Contribution of UHPFRCs in the Treatment of Thermal Bridges 331
Thierry BURCKEL, Laurence JACQUES, Alain BIRAULT, Laurent HEINTZ, Jacques DALIPHARD and Mouloud BEHLOUL

Chapter 23. UHPFRC Sunshades: An Elegant Solution for Regulating Heat Input in Buildings 349
Laurence JACQUES, Yves FOURNIER, Jean-Yves JOUSSELIN and Jean-François BATOZ

Chapter 24. Investigation of UHPFRC Slabs under Blast Loads 363
Mark REBENTROST and Gavin WIGHT

Chapter 25. Experience with Prefabricated UHPFRC in the Netherlands 377
Steffen GRÜNEWALD, Rik WEYNS and Jan DEKKERS

Chapter 26. Precast Bridge Parapets in Ultra High Performance Fiber-reinforced Concrete 391
Jean-Philippe CHARRON, Eric NIAMBA and Bruno MASSICOTTE

Chapter 27. Using UHPFRC for Complex Façade Elements 405
René SUTER, Lionel MOREILLON, Christian CLERGUE and Roger RACORDON

Chapter 28. Innovative Field Cast UHPC Joints for Precast Bridge Decks. Design, Prototype Testing and Projects 421
Vic PERRY and Gary WEISS

Chapter 29. The High Performance Cementitious Material (HPCM), a Cousin of UHPFRC for Long-life Pavement 437
François DE LARRARD

Chapter 30. Performance of UHPC Crossarms for High-voltage Transmission Lines 447
Raafat EL-HACHA, Hani ABDELAZEEM and Ignacio CARIAGA

Chapter 31. Structural Evaluation of Hybrid FRP-UHPC Bridge Girders 467
Ayman ELMAHDY, Raafat EL-HACHA, Nigel SHRIVE and Vic PERRY

Chapter 32. Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM): The Owner’s Ambition 481
Gérard GAZON

Chapter 33. Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM): High UHPFRC Content Structure Design 487
Rudy RICCIOTTI, Jacques PORTELATINE and Florence NICOLAS

Chapter 34. Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM): Experimentation and Modeling of Straight and Y-shaped UHPFRC Prestressed Columns Under the Action of an Off-centered
Vertical Load 501
Philippe RIVILLON, Jacques PORTELATINE and Florence NICOLAS

PART V. EXTENDING THE LIFE OF STRUCTURES 529

Chapter 35. Seismic Retrofitting of Bridge Piers with UHPFRC Jackets 531
Bruno MASSICOTTE and Guillaume BOUCHER-PROULX

Chapter 36. Application of Ultra-high-strength Fiber-reinforced Concrete for Irrigation Channel Repair Works 541
Tsuyoshi ONO

Chapter 37. Using UHPFRC for Structural Reinforcement of Buildings and Civil Works 553
Thierry THIBAUX

PART VI. MAJOR RESEARCH RESULTS 565

Chapter 38. Ultra High Performance Concrete for Prestressed Elements. Interest of Creep Prediction 567
Philippe FRANCISCO, Farid BENBOUDJEMA, Patrick ROUGEAU and Jean-Michel TORRENTI

Chapter 39. Rheology of Fiber-reinforced Cementitious Materials: Basic Concepts and Application to UHPFRC 575
Laëtitia MARTINIE, Pierre ROSSI and Nicolas ROUSSEL

Chapter 40. Behavior of UHPFRC at High Temperatures 579
Pierre PIMIENTA, Jean-Christophe MINDEGUIA, Alain SIMON and Mouloud BEHLOUL

Chapter 41. Ant Colony Optimization for Ultra High Performance Concrete Structures 601
Martin FLINT, Steffen GRÜNEWALD and Jeroen COENDERS

Chapter 42. Investigation of Biaxial Stress States of UHPC Bridge Girders through Small Panel Testing and Finite Element Analysis 619
Kacie D’ALESSANDRO, Carin ROBERTS-WOLLMANN, Thomas COUSINS and Elisa SOTELINO

Chapter 43. An Overview of Research Advances from 2002 Concerning UHPFRC, in View of Updating the AFGC Recommendations 639
François TOUTLEMONDE, Bernard FOURÉ, Luca SORELLI, Florent BABY, Pierre MARCHAND and Franz Josef ULM

PART VII. DURABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY 665

Chapter 44. An Example of UHPFRC Recycling 667
Thierry SEDRAN, Cédric DURAND and François DE LARRARD

Chapter 45. Ultra High Performance Concrete and its Contribution to Sustainable Development 681
Jean-François BATOZ and Mathieu RIVALLAIN

Chapter 46. Field Experience of UHPFRC Durability in an Air Cooling Tower 697
François TOUTLEMONDE, Myriam CARCASSES and Maxime LION

PART VIII. UPDATED AFGC RECOMMENDATIONS 711

Chapter 47. Ultra High Performance Concrete: New AFGC Recommendations 713
Jacques RESPLENDINO

Chapter 48. New AFGC Recommendations on UHPFRC: Chapter 1 – Mechanical Characteristics and Behavior of UHPFRC 723
Alain SIMON

Chapter 49. New AFGC Recommendations on UHPFRC: Chapter 2 – Design 743
Pierre MARCHAND

Chapter 50. New AFGC Recommendations on UHPFRC: Chapter 3 – Durability 755
Myriam CARCASSES

Chapter 51. Ultra High Performance Concrete and Sustainable Development: Synthesis of Available Data 765
Pierre MARCHAND

List of Authors 771

Index 779

Author Index 783

French Summaries 785