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Swiss bridge must be removed each year A LIGHTWEIGHT

compos-

ite bridge crossing ski

resort

near

Switzerland,

St Moritz,

has just

installed

by

Composites working tions,

a river at a

AS of Denmark, municipality

forced

Both

section

of the is

by bolts glue

glacier

washes

melt

tonnes

gravel down

water

of stones

and

the river.

tonnes,

the

composite

bridge is easy to transport install

by helicopter

in this

constructed

bridge

is

of two sections

spanning

a total

of 25 m.

The

carrying

capacity

of the bridge also allows 1 tonne The follows

bolts

after

the

of 500 kg/m2

a rolling

load of

.

vehicular deck

bridge,

that

The

If the

as expected,

bridge scheduled

be removed

tion

season

in

during

1998

German

has

awarded

Fiberline

Composites Kolding Denmark.

AVK

its Prize

1997 for the

Castle,

USA.

Supported

Reinforced

Association

New

of

dinal concrete

barrier

the deck is around

beams,

21 m long,

7 m wide and 45 cm deep. It was

fabricated

using

the

ester Co,

Michigan.

The use of fibre reinforced to have

resulted

in a

cost saving over tradi-

tional

building

materials

because

of the

required

to install

and

by two longitu-

Derakane vinyl

plastic (FRP) for this project is major

for construc-

using epoxy

Midland,

said

highway

the summer

in

Delaware, The

is a prototype

an interstate

Resin Process

resin from Dow Chemical

part

in one piece.

structure

for

a

to be the

b.lggest single composite

Moulding

OC-100

featuring

is said

Composites

Infusion (SCRIMP)

composite

ever fabricated

together

first

to be the

largest

Seemann

because

equipment

short

time

the deck

heavy

lifting

was not needed.

The deck, with its beams, was installed in under nine hours. Dow Chemical;

tel: +I-

517-832-1597

bridge in This is the first

time the AVK prize gone to

a company

outside

Germany. Henrik Thorning, Fiber&e Composites;tel:+45-7556

to pass. Pontresina, closely

One

glue.

will

Innovation

pedestrian

load

and

Plastics

and

remote area. The

and devel-

use.

With a total weight of only 2.5

are

DuPont has constructed

is claimed

world’s

Pontresina

held

performs

the

what

programme.

university in Zurich. The bridge each spring

(Rein-

structures

bridge

HARDCORE Composites

September

part of a research of

in

which

1997

Plastics,

will be removed before

bridge

in June

opment

technical

employs vinyl ester

Denmark,

1997).

with Swiss organizathe

previous

Kolding, opened

been

Fiberline

I’ontresina and ETH

line’s

Highway bridge prototype

after

project Fiber-

5333;

fix;

+45-75565281;

[email protected] vehicular bridge.

GRP sun protector BIJL Polyester pleted

recently

com-

the construction

glass reinforced sun protector

on the roof of

two luxury apartment in Krimpen

of a

plastic (GRP) buildings

aan de Ijssel near

Rotterdam. The

structure

is made

frum

carrying

arms

built

with

pultruded

GRP

angle

profiles

of

dimensions

50 x 50 x 5 mm profiles

size. Between

these

50 x 50 x 5 mm

Bijl Polyester

strip

x 10 mm

200

ftles and

and

in

arms are angle

pro-

100 x 40 x 5 mm

The builder

The Pontresina bridge Reinforced Plastics March 1998

happy

with

GRP

profiles

stainless

produces

rein-

forced

products

using

steel.

the

is said to be choice instead

of of

plastic

spray-up,

hand

lay-up,

vacu-

um and sheet moulding compound (SMC) 1996,

channels.

BV in the

Netherlands

techniques. In

Bijl started using pLl-

trusion and now has a large assortment of profiles. Gem’t Switsar, B;jl Polyester SK tel: +31-167-524343