Built
in 1959, on road N216 is the first confirmed concrete structure in the
Netherlands which was severely damaged by alkali silica reaction. Bridge
demolished end of 2010.
Dr Oguzhan Copuroglu studied several cores from this structure for the investigation of microstructural features of the concrete and amorphous and crystalline ASR product compositions.
This
study concluded that ASR and related damage were exclusively created by
the reactive coarse aggregate although the fine aggregates exhibit
reactive components in the Montigny viaduct concrete. You can find the
details on this study* in Proceedings of the 33th Int. conference on cement microscopy.
* O. Copuroglu, G. Einarsson, "Montigny viaduct revisited: Microstructure of an ASR damaged concrete from 1959", Proceedings of the 33th Int. conference on cement microscopy, San Francisco, California, U.S.A, April 17-20, 2011
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