Julien Pedneault, Victor Desjardins, Manuele Margni, David Conciatori, Mario Fafard et Luca Sorelli
Article de revue (2021)
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Abstract
The costs to maintain Québec's infrastructure—most of which was built in the 1960s and 1970s—are considerable, and major maintenance and reconstruction will be required in the coming years. In recent years, aluminum associations promote the increase of aluminum use in infrastructure and especially in bridge construction. This research aims to investigate the advantages of using aluminum deck bridges, which require less maintenance than traditional materials due to the natural resistance to atmospheric corrosion of aluminum, despite their higher investment costs that may limit their deployment. More specifically, the study compares for the first time the life cycle costs and environmental impacts of an aluminum-steel composite deck with a more traditional concrete-steel composite deck and provides a parametrized model allowing practitioners and designers to perform screening life cycle assessment and cost of short span bridge based on our data and results. Results show that the initial cost of aluminum deck is double that of concrete deck, but the overall cost is actually four times lower over the entire life cycle. The environmental results demonstrate the benefits of aluminum deck. Our main recommendation for future decision making in road infrastructure management is therefore to systematically expand the scope of the analysis integrating a full life cycle thinking also including the effects from traffic diversion.
Mots clés
Life-cycle cost analysis; Life cycle assessment; Bridge deck Aluminum-steel composite bridges; Steel-concrete composite bridges
Sujet(s): |
1100 Génie des structures > 1105 Matériaux de structure 1500 Génie de l'environnement > 1500 Génie de l'environnement |
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Département: | Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel |
Centre de recherche: | CIRAIG - Centre international de référence sur le cycle de vie des produits, procédés et services |
Organismes subventionnaires: | Ministry of Transport of Quebec, Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies |
Numéro de subvention: | R787.1 |
URL de PolyPublie: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/6582/ |
Titre de la revue: | Journal of Cleaner Production (vol. 310) |
Maison d'édition: | Elsevier |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127405 |
URL officielle: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127405 |
Date du dépôt: | 02 juin 2021 09:16 |
Dernière modification: | 05 avr. 2024 18:30 |
Citer en APA 7: | Pedneault, J., Desjardins, V., Margni, M., Conciatori, D., Fafard, M., & Sorelli, L. (2021). Economic and environmental life cycle assessment of a short-span aluminium composite bridge deck in Canada. Journal of Cleaner Production, 310, 127405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127405 |
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