Lilac Road Bridge [SEP] material used
Lilac Road Bridge
The Lilac Road Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge in Escondido, California, built in 1978 at a cost of $1,500,000. Its main span is , with a total length of . It was designed by Fred G. Michaels and John Suwada, with architecture consulting by William Wells. This bridge is one of the two overcrossings in San Diego County with this unique arch design, the other being the Eastgate Mall Bridge. When traveling northbound on I-15 it is the noticeably high bridge before the SR 76 exit
The long Mihara Bridge in Hokkaido, Japan was opened to traffic in 2005. The steel-reinforced road bed contains nearly 800 m3 of ECC material. The tensile ductility and tight crack control behavior of ECC led to a 40% reduction in material used during construction.
- Similarly, a 225-mm thick ECC bridge deck on interstate 94 in Michigan was completed in 2005. 30 m of material was used, delivered on-site in standard mixing trucks. Due to the unique mechanical properties of ECC, this deck also used