Abstract:To study the mechanical behavior of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) wet joints connecting new and existing bridge decks, the bending tests are conducted on one cast-in-place monolithic slab and two UHPC widened bridge deck slabs to analyze the effects of the widening construction and the diameter of transverse tensile reinforcement on the flexural behavior of the bridge deck slabs. The parameters such as ultimate load, load?displacement curves, reinforcement strain curves and concrete strain curves at the joint section are obtained. The results show that the ultimate load of the cast?in?place monolithic slab is 733.6 kN. Under the same reinforcement diameter, the ultimate load of the UHPC widened bridge deck slab reaches 92.7% of that of the cast-in-place monolithic slab. When the diameter of the tensile reinforcement in the UHPC widened deck slab is increased from 6 mm to 8 mm, the ultimate load increases from 578.9 kN to 680.3 kN, representing an improvement of 17.5%. The UHPC widened bridge deck slabs exhibit good flexural performance, and increasing the diameter of the transverse tensile reinforcement can enhance the flexural performance of bridge widening structures.