Download or read book Impact of Bottom Flange Confinement Reinforcement on Performance of Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders written by Quinton Patzlaff and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bottom Flange Reinforcement in NU I girders written by George Morcous and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prestress Losses in Pretensioned High strength Concrete Bridge Girders written by Maher K. Tadros and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2003 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The HCM includes three printed volumes (Volumes 1-3) that can be purchased from the Transportation Research Board in print and electronic formats. Volume 4 is a free online resource that supports the rest of the manual. It includes: Supplemental chapters 25-38, providing additional details of the methodologies described in the Volume 1-3 chapters, example problems, and other resources; A technical reference library providing access to a significant portion of the research supporting HCM methods; Two applications guides demonstrating how the HCM can be applied to planning-level analysis and a variety of traffic operations applications; Interpretations, updates, and errata for the HCM (as they are developed);A discussion forum allowing HCM users to ask questions and collaborate on HCM-related matters; and Notifications of chapter updates, active discussions, and more via an optional e-mail notification feature."--Publisher.
Download or read book Extending Span Ranges of Precast Prestressed Concrete Girders written by Reid Wilson Castrodale and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Download or read book Function and Design of Confinement Reinforcement in Pretensioned Concrete I girders written by Brandon E. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confinement reinforcement is placed near the end of pretensioned concrete I-girders to enclose prestressing strands in the bottom flange. Experimental and analytical test programs were conducted to investigate the function of confinement reinforcement, and to provide the basis for a confinement reinforcement design model. Five 54-in. deep Florida I-Beam (FIB-54) girders were fabricated and load tested in the experimental program. Each end of each girder had a different combination of variables, which resulted in ten unique test specimens. Variables included: presence or absence of embedded steel bearing plates, quantity and configuration of confinement reinforcement, strand bond pattern, strand quantity, and quantity of horizontal and vertical end region reinforcement. Data were collected during and after prestress transfer to evaluate the effects of test variables on bottom flange cracking. Load tests were then conducted on each specimen (end) to determine the effects of test variables on girder behavior and capacity. Specimens were loaded in three-point bending at a shear span-to-depth ratio of 2.0.
Download or read book Evaluation and Repair Procedures for Precast prestressed Concrete Girders with Longitudinal Cracking in the Web written by Maher K. Tadros and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report establishes a user's manual for the acceptance, repair, or rejection of precast/prestressed concrete girders with longitudinal web cracking. The report also proposes revisions to the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications and provides recommendations to develop improved crack control reinforcement details for use in new girders. The material in this report will be of immediate interest to bridge engineers.
Download or read book Effect of Intermediate Diaphragms to Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders in Over height Truck Impacts written by Pizhong Qiao and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design of Precast Prestressed Bridge Girders Made Continuous written by R. G. Oesterle and published by Transportation Research Board National Research. This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report documents and presents results of a study to determine time-dependent behavior and relevant design criteria for simple-span precast, prestressed bridge girders made continuous. A questionnaire was used to determine current practice. Creep and shrinkage tests of steam-cured concrete loaded at an early age were made. Computer simulations were used to investigate the effects of time-dependent material behavior and variation in design parameters on the effective continuity for live load plus impact. The findings suggest that positive moment connections in the diaphragms at the piers are not required and provide no structural advantages. The findings also suggest that effective continuity for live load plus impact can vary from 0 to 100% dependent on the design parameters and timing of construction. Computer analyses were also used to determine an upper limit for the amount of negative moment reinforcement over the supports to insure full moment redistribution and attainment of maximum bridge strength. New computer programs were developed for simplified analysis to determine time-dependent effects and service moments. Recommendations for design procedures were presented and design examples given.
Download or read book Design of Continuous Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders written by Ali Pahlavan and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instrumentation and Monitoring of High Performance Concrete Prestressed Bridge Girders written by Vellore S. Gopalaratnam and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design Guide for Prestressed Concrete Long segment Bridge Girders written by William Leo Gamble and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torsional Strength of Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders written by Eugene Buth and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Strength Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders written by Theresa Marie Ahlborn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flocculation Treatment Best Management Practices for Construction Water Discharges written by Brian Thomas Mathys and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minnesota Department of Transportation has typically used epoxy-coated, straight-legged stirrups anchored in the tension zone as transverse reinforcement in prestressed concrete bridge girders. This configuration is readily placed after stressing the prestressing strands. American Concrete Institute (ACI) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) specifications require stirrups with bent legs that encompass the longitudinal reinforcement to properly anchor the stirrups. Such a configuration is specified to provide mechanical anchorage to the stirrup, ensuring that it will be able to develop its yield strength with a short anchorage length to resist shear within the web of the girder. AASHTO specifications for anchoring transverse reinforcement are the same for reinforced and prestressed concrete; however, in the case of prestressed concrete bridge girders, there are a number of differences that serve to enhance the anchorage of the transverse reinforcement, thereby enabling the straight bar detail. These include the precompression in the bottom flange of the girder in regions of web-shear cracking. In addition, the stirrup legs are usually embedded within a bottom flange that contains longitudinal strands outside the stirrups. The increased concrete cover over the stirrups provided by the bottom flange and the resistance to vertical splitting cracks along the legs of the stirrups provided by the longitudinal prestressing reinforcement outside the stirrups help to enhance the straight-legged anchorage in both regions of web-shear cracking and flexure-shear cracking. A two-phase experimental program was conducted to investigate the anchorage of straight-legged, epoxy-coated stirrups, which included bar pullout tests performed on 13 subassemblage specimens that represented the bottom flanges of prestressed concrete girders, to determine the effectiveness of straight-legged stirrup anchorage in developing yield strains. Additionally, four girder ends were cast with straight-legged stirrup anchorage details and tested in flexure-shear and web-shear. The straight leg stirrup anchorage detail was determined to be acceptable for Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) M and MN shaped girders as nominal shear capacities were exceeded and yield strains were measured in the stirrups prior to failure during each of the tests.
Download or read book Connection of Simple span Precast Concrete Girders for Continuity written by Richard A. Miller (Professional engineer) and published by Transportation Research Board National Research. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction and Research Approach -- Findings -- Interpretation, Appraisal, and Application -- Interpretation, Appraisal, and Application -- References -- Appendixes.
Download or read book Lateral Load Resistance of Diaphragms in Prestressed Concrete Girder Bridges written by R. E. Abendroth and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year several prestressed concrete girder bridges in Iowa and other states are struck and damaged by vehicles with loads too high to pass under the bridge. Whether or not intermediate diaphragms play a significant role in reducing the effect of these unusual loading conditions has often been a topic of discussion. A study of the effects of the type and location of intermediate diaphragms in prestressed concrete girder bridges when the bridge girder flanges were subjected to various levels of vertical and horizontal loading was undertaken. The purpose of the research was to determine whether steel diaphragms of any conventional configuration can provide adequate protection to minimize the damage to prestressed concrete girders caused by lateral loads, similar to the protection provided by the reinforced concrete intermediate diaphragms presently being used by the Iowa Department of Transportation. The research program conducted and described in this report included the following: A comprehensive literature search and survey questionnaire were undertaken to define the state-of-the-art in the use of intermediate diaphragms in prestressed concrete girder bridges. A full scale, simple span, restressed concrete girder bridge model, containing three beams was constructed and tested with several types of intermediate diaphragms located at the one-third points of the span or at the mid-span. Analytical studies involving a three-dimensional finite element analysis model were used to provide additional information on the behavior of the experimental bridge. The performance of the bridge with no intermediate diaphragms was quite different than that with intermediate diaphragms in place. All intermediate diaphragms tested had some effect in distributing the loads to the slab and other girders, although some diaphragm types performed better than others. The research conducted has indicated that the replacement of the reinforced concrete intermediate diaphragms currently being used in Iowa with structural steel diaphragms may be possible.
Download or read book Performance of Grouted Longitudinal Joint Connections Between Decked Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders written by Huijun Dong and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
