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Selection, Maintance and Acoustic Diagnostics of Expansion Joints in Bridges Located in Areas with Ground Deformations

Marek Salamak, Rafał Zuchowski
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2017, Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 89-98
Doi: 10.1515/tvsb-2017-0032
In the paper are presented general rules of the assortment of expansion joints in bridges located in areas being under the mining impacts. The maintenance problems associated with ground deformations are also mentioned. The special attention is given to the noise emitted by expansion joint devices. A legal status in the protection from noise and factors affecting this noise are discussed.
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