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The 21st Century Interstate Features A New Material World - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR

Publication Date: 16-MAR-06
Author:  Aileen Cho, with E. Michael Powers and bureaus
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Back in the 1990s, recalls Heath Carr, president of Fibrwrap Construction Inc., “everyone would look at you like you were crazy” for proposing to repair a bridge with composite fiber components. But 5,000 retrofits later, the looks are gone. Although fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs) still are not in the mainstream of transportation ...

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