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Tolerances for Placement of Tie Bars in Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (Aug 2020, MPC-20-417)
Longitudinal joints in Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement slabs require tie (dowel) bars to control joint opening resulting from thermal stresses. Inspections of PCC pavements by the South Dakota Department of Transportation using ground penetrating radar revealed that it is common for tie bars...
Retrofit of Existing Concrete Beam-Column Joints Using Advanced Carbon-Fiber Composites (Apr 1998, MPC-98-92)
This study addresses the issue of retrofitting reinforced concrete column/cap joints with advanced carbon-fiber composites using full-scale laboratory specimens.