Concrete High Performance

Highway Construction

A guide to HPC

May 9, 2005
High-performance concrete (HPC) technology from A to Z is the focus of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) new High-Performance Concrete Structural Designer’s Guide, one...
Concrete High Performance

Void all checks

March 14, 2005
In the early 1980s, after years of studying D-cracking in concrete pavements, the Iowa DOT figured out how to minimize the problem. Materials engineers at the Iowa DOT developed...
Bridges

Next performance

Jan. 16, 2004
During the past 10 years, the design and use of high-performance concrete (HPC) has become more common, with hundreds of structures created using the material. Signature bridges...
Bridges

Bridges With More

Aug. 16, 2003
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) encourages the use of high-performance concrete to improve the long-term performance of the nation’s infrastructure at lower life-cycle...