Bridges Expansion Joints

Abstract

The survey is concerned with the expansion joints, used in bridge constructions to compensate medium and significant operational linear and spatial displacements between adjacent spans or between bridge span and pier. The analysis of design features of these types of expansion joints, their advantages and disadvantages, based on operational experience justified the necessity to design constructions, meeting the modern demands imposed to expansion joints.

Keywords

• expansion joints
• modular expansion joint
• finger joint expansion dam
• review
• analysis
• shell comb fingers