PHASE I OF AN EVALUATION OF BRIDGE VIBRATION AS RELATED TO BRIDGE DECK PERFORMANCE

ELEVEN HIGHWAY BRIDGES REPRESENTING NINE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CONSTRUCTION WERE SUBJECTED TO AN ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION TO ESTABLISH ANY CORRELATIONS POSSIBLE BETWEEN DECK CRACKING AND VARIABLES OF DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE. THE INVESTIGATION WAS OF THE NATURE OF A PRELIMINARY SURVEY WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A MORE INTENSIVE STUDY OF THE MORE PROMISING CORRELATIONS INDICATED. THE MORE EXTENSIVE CRACKING WAS FOUND TO OCCUR IN CONNECTION WITH THE MORE FLEXIBLE STEEL STRUCTURES, WITH THE HEAVIER TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND WITH CONTINUITY OF SPANS AND SKEWNESS. APPENDICES TO THE REPORT INCLUDE CRACK SURVEYS OF THE DECKS, DESCRIPTIONS OF THE THEORETICAL ANALYSES USED FOR FREQUENCY AND DEFLECTION DETERMINATIONS AND A WORK PLAN FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF THE STUDY LOOKING INTO THE CRACKING OF NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BRIDGES. /BPR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Hpr-1 (6), 440.924
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  203 Administration Building
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37996-0700

  Tennessee Department of Highways

  Nashville, TN  United States 

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Goodpasture, D W
  • Goodwin, W A
• Publication Date: 1969-7-31

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge decks; Bridge design; Bridges; Continuous girder bridges; Deflection; Flexibility; Highway bridges; Pavement cracking; Pavements; Skewed structures; Steel structures; Structural analysis; Structural design; Theory; Traffic volume; Vibration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Skewness
• Old TRIS Terms: Pavement deflection
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00207917
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 7 1994 12:00AM