Reusing Bridge Foundations

A critical component of bridge owners’ decisionmaking is the ability to characterize the foundations of bridges. This information is used as part of the process for determining whether existing foundations can continue to carry increasingly heavy loads or whether major bridge rehabilitation, replacement, or widening should be considered. Characterization of bridge foundations is complex and the Federal Highway Administration is developing and evaluating methods to clarify and mitigate these issues under its new Foundation Characterization Research Program. The program’s objectives are to evaluate new and existing methodologies for characterizing bridge foundations to determine unknown geometry, material properties, integrity, and load-carrying capacity. Another objective is to develop a methodology for load testing of existing bridge foundations, including instrumentation for monitoring foundation response.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/15novdec/05.cfm
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1586080
• Authors:
  • Jalinoos, Frank
• Publication Date: 2015-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 79
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Bridge foundations; Condition surveys; Hazards; Methodology; Scour
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01598069
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 28 2016 2:47PM