Reinforcing steel can corrode reaidly in aggressive marine/waterfront environments. The cost of corrosion to concrete structures subjected to these environments runs into billions of dollars annually. To address this problem, a cooperative research effort, under the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers' Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program was initiated between the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, along with several industry partner participants. In cooperation with the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, a demonstration test pier was constructed in Port Hueneme, CA using fiber reinforced plastic composite prestressing cables. The piles and the pier deck sections were fabricated with carbon fiber reinforced cables using a pre-tensioned mode. Glass fiber reinforced cables were used in the pile caps via a post-tensioned mode. The pier structure has now been in place for more than a year. Two series of impact load performance tests have been conducted on the structure to assess its performance. This paper presents a description of the project and the pier construction as well as a report on field performance to date.
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