SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL REVIEW
Development of Prestressed Concrete Slab
Yasuhiko SHISHIDO, Miyuki NAKAMURA, Seiji ENDOU, Tatsuya YOSHIDA and Takayuki SHINOHARA

Prestressed concrete slab has become the primary application for bridge construction. Our company has striven to develop and apply new materials and construction technologies for prestressed concrete slab in order to reduce the construction period and to prevent crack formation. The technologies applied to our projects are the use of expansive concrete, the prestressing by sequential jack-up and jack-down, and the slab casting with the use of traveling forms. This report presents the technical features in our designs and construction methods of prestressed concrete slab for bridges.