Troubled Bridge Over Salt Water

From JPCL, October 2017

By Michael O. Woodward, Carboline Company


Surrounded by high-rise buildings and crossing the Miami River, the Miami Avenue Bridge spans a heavily utilized waterway for recreational crafts, cargo vessels and private yachts leading to and from the Atlantic Ocean. This case history describes recoating this bridge after the discovery of a catastrophic, intercoat delamination failure....


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Tagged categories: Adhesion; Bridges; Case History; Coating selection; Cost-savings; Epoxy; Overcoating; Program/Project Management; Project Management; Specification; Waterjetting

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