What is it about?
Underground telecommunication utilities (manholes) are widely used in Hungary to connect and extend ground cables near railway stations. Numerous manholes were designed during the Budapest–Belgrad railway project, in which a modernized design was required for economic and ecological reasons.
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The efficiency of manholes is rather low because of the overly conservative design methods used for them. The main advantages of synthetic fiber-reinforced structures can be summarized as follows: - they have sufficient load-bearing capacity and high ductility, - as in-ground structures, they are significantly more resistant to corrosion than reinforced structures, - sustainability analyses show that they have a lower CO2e footprint than conventional reinforced structures, - from an economic perspective, the structure requires less labor for production, and the construction process is faster.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. This article also lead to rare disease groups contacting me and ultimately to a greater involvement in rare disease research.
Dr Karoly Peter Juhasz
JKP Static Ltd
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This page is a summary of: Numerical and experimental investigation on synthetic macrofiber-reinforced concrete manhole exposed to railway loads, Case Studies in Construction Materials, July 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cscm.2024.e03093.
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