RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PLANNING AND CONDUCT OF LOADING TESTS ON HIGHWAY BRIDGES

RECOMENDACIONES PARA EL PROYECTO Y EJECUCION DE PRUEBAS DE CARGA EN PUENTES DE CARRETERA

These recommendations represent an attempt at standardizing the technical and economic aspects of loading tests on highway bridges. They outline the aim and field of application of the tests, give a classification of bridges as a function of loading tests, possible reduction in the case of structures with identical spans, the organization of the tests, documents to be drafted, execution of the tests (time, measuring apparatus, weather conditions, reference points), additional tests, and a summary of the test report. Three appendices give the definitions used, describe the standard loading test, and give an example of a tender. /TRRL/

  • Corporate Authors:

    Ministry of Public Works, Spain

    Avenue del Generalissimo
    Madrid 16,   Spain 
  • Publication Date: 1974

Language

  • Spanish

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: 25 p.

Subject/Index Terms

Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00159776
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM