The first railroad bridge in Germany made of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) has gone into operation on Bavaria’s Tegernsee-Bahn railroad route near Gmund. The innovative high-performance concrete made it possible to build a particularly thin bridge. Engineers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) planned the project and provided scientific supervision.
It is almost as resilient as steel, has a long service life and makes especially thin structures possible: Ultra-high performance concrete, which is still only rarely used in Germany in spite of its positive properties. "This is a new material which behaves differently from conventional concrete," explains Prof. Oliver Fischer of the TUM Chair of Concrete and Masonry Structures. ...
