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Engineering, 2012, 4, 869-876 /10.4236/eng.2012.412110 Published Online December 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng) Dynamic Characteristics Evaluation of Innovative UHPC Pedestrian Cable Stayed Bridge Won Jong Chin, Young Jin Kim, Jeong-Rae Cho, Jong Sup Park Structural Engineering Research Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Goyang, South Korea Email: wjchin@kict.re.kr, yjkim@kict.re.kr, chojr@kict.re.kr, jSpark1@kict.re.kr Received September 3, 2012; revised October 5, 2012; accepted October 17, 2012 ABSTRACT KICT (Korea Institute of Construction Technology) is conducting a project called “SUPER BRIDGE 200—Develop- ment of Low Cost and Long Life Hybrid Cable Stayed Bridge”. This project aims to reduce the construction and main- tenance costs of long-span bridges by 20% and double their lifetime through the exploitation of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). This paper presents the design and construction of the first pedestrian cable stayed bridge using UHPC developed by KICT. UHPC, compared to conventional concrete, has not only high compressive and tensile strengths but also high ductility. The UHPC developed at KICT is a steel fiber-reinforced cement compound presenting design compressive strength larger than 180 MPa and design tensile strength exceeding 10 MPa with water-to-binder ratio below 0.24 and admixing of 2 volume percentage of steel fiber. To show the applicability of UHPC to structures, a pedestrian cable stayed bridge (Super Bridge I) exploiting the characteristics of the developed UHPC has been planned, designed and erected at KICT. The dimension of UHPC deck is 2.7 m × 7 m as a precast segment with a typical thick- ness of deck of only 7 cm. However, harmful crack was observed in the deck at the time of the fabric