Chamagawa Bridge which is being constructing at Awaji in Hyogo Prefecture, is a concrete arch bridge designed in consideration of urban aesthetic district. Though the arch rib and crown of this bridge had three-boxes type sections and were set closely re-bars in, we needed not to divide one placing block into some parts but use full face placing of concrete method because the construction period of this bridge was limited. Therefore, we used Super Workable Concrete which had high fluidity and moderate stability and could be placed easily without vibration. There, however, were many restrictions on the decision of materials and mix design for Super Workable Concrete, such as the standard of materials, specified concrete strength and mixing efficiency of tilting mixer etc. The materials of concrete were only used portland blast-furnace slag cement and air entraining and high-range water reducing agent, the water cement ratio (
W/C) was 37 % and cement content per unit volume of concrete (
C) was 461 kg/m
3. We practiced many experiments in laboratory, concrete mixing plant and construction sitebefore practical execution. In particular, we elaborately investigated about concreting methods, such as the influence of conveying distance and pumping rate, compactability of Super Workable Concrete using clear resinous models imitated arch rib, the relation between lateral pressure against formwork and rate or interval of placement, and the surface finishing effect of water permeable sheet. We carried out placing about 1 500 m
3 of Super Work-able Concrete for four months.
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