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Bridges and Transmission Line Structures
This volume on Bridges and Transmission Line Structures contains papers from ten sessions and one plenary session of the 1987 ASCE Structures Congress. Eight sessions cover bridges. A...

Earthquakes Will Not Damage This Bridge
A California pipeline bridge has been retrofitted with isolation bearings that damp earthquake shocks. The bridge over Southern California's Santa Ana River carries the Upper...

Connecticut: A Success Story
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) had warned the state legislature that its highways and bridges would continue to deteriorate without increased funds for inspection,...

The Wet Look
The collapse of the Schoharie Creek bridge drew attention to underwater inspection. Underwater inspection of bridges gives engineers a better understanding of the condition of the bridges....

The Just-in-Case Factor
Computer analysis allows bridge designers to take a more precise look at the old structural principle of redundancy. No one can define redundancy, but everybody knows what it means. Two...

Twisting in the Wind
Wind tunnel tests are being used increasingly to test the aerodynamic stability of bridges. Many designers think these tests should be used early in the conceptual design stage, rather...

Wind Loading and Wind-Induced Structural Response
A State-of-the-Art Report
This state-of-the-art report presents fundamental and practical aspects of modern wind engineering practice as it relates to structural design. The first chapter includes information on...

Surveying for Scour
The public works engineer never knows exactly how many bridge piers and abutments are undermined by erosion due to scour. Massachusetts Department of Public Works needed a rapid method...

An Economical Approach to Receiving Coal by Rail in the Sub-Arctic Environment
During the period 1983 to early 1985 a multimillion dollar coal transfer facility was designed and constructed in Seward, Alaska. The facility transfers coal from rail cars to temporary...

Long Term Performance of the Goldstream Creek Bridge
In 1964 the Alaska Department of Transportation and the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory initiated a cooperative study which in the long-term generated a significant...

Microcomputer Program for Bridge Analysis & Rating
The microcomputer software system, BRCOM, for the analysis and rating of bridge superstructures is described. The system consists of ten programs written in UCSD P-System FORTRAN, which...

Interactive Analysis and Design Program for Girder Bridges
An interactive microcomputer program for the analysis, design, and rating of girder bridges is presented. The program, GBRIDGE, is user-friendly, menu-driven, and developed in modular...

Optimal Design of Continuous Prestressed Concrete Girders
Design of continuous prestressed concrete girders with possibility of parabolically varying depth in each span is formulated in the form of a mathematical programming problem. The design...

A Microcomputer CAD System for Seismic Design of Regular Highway Bridges
A microcomputer program to implement the recent seismic design guidelines for highway bridges is described. The methodology was developed by the Applied Technology Council (ATC) and is...

Nonlinear Analysis of External Prestressed Bridges
Finite element formulations for analysis of the overall response of concrete bridge girders prestressed with external tendons is described. The analytical procedure includes several nonlinear...

Tiedback Walls Untie Intersection
The intersection of Gallows Rd. and Arlington Blvd. in Virginia's Fairfax County required separation. Tiedback retaining walls, which required only 18 in. instead of the 18-22...

Spanning Urban Obstacles
Extension of Pittsburgh's Crosstown Expressway is a � mile portion of a massive $500 million urban highway now under construction. The extension is a complex of five roadways...

Scenic Squeeze
Constructing a four-lane dual highway through the 12 miles of Colorado's Glenwood Canyon involves several engineering innovations: cantilevered roadways, unusual retaining...

Shoulder Rumble Strips at Narrow Bridges
The highways in the United States have thousands of minimum design narrow bridges. Replacement of these bridges with current state of the art designs is not cost effective nor feasible...

Transitioning End Terminal A TREND^tm for the Future
The highway engineer frequently starts from a position where an identified highway element is causing serious injuries or fatalities to motorists on the nation's highways....

 

 

 

 

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