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Double composite box girders
The idea is indeed quite simple, but very effective. Basically one mainly uses the materials at their best: steel for traction, concrete for compression. It is also very useful to reduce local buckling on the compressed steel plate. I've designed several bridges with this technique (outside US...- brucke
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- Forum: Bridge engineering
