Main Street Replacement Bridge, Columbus, Ohio

Faced with the challenge of replacing an existing Art Deco arch bridge, the city of Columbus, Ohio, decided against replication in favor of constructing a new aesthetic symbol for the city. The proposed Main Street Replacement Bridge, a bridge consisting of a single-ribbed arch inclined at a 10-degree angle, will gracefully span the Scioto River and will provide the city with its new aesthetic symbol, as well as provide the final link between new parkway developments on both banks of the river. The original design concept was abandoned because of increasing construction complexities compounded by a decreasing budget allowance. With a client committed to aesthetic design, a requirement for a less complicated erection process, and a shortened construction timeline, the engineers were challenged to redesign the bridge within the revised budget while maintaining the intriguing geometry of the previous bridge design. How the design team overcame the new design challenges and, specifically, the redesign of the arch geometry, the reshaping and redesign of the pedestrian and vehicular decks, the redesign of the lateral bracing of the inclined arch, and the complete overhaul of the bridge piers, is described.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/trr.11s.08pj3766l37r47m6
• Record URL:
  https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Main+Street+Replacement+Bridge%2C+Columbus%2C+Ohio&author=D.+Rogowski&author=D.+O%27Rorke&author=G.+DeMond&publication_year=2005
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• Authors:
  • Rogowski, David M
  • O'Rorke, Daniel K
  • DeMond, Greg
• Conference:
  • 6th International Bridge Engineering Conference: Reliability, Security, and Sustainability in Bridge Engineering
  • Location: Boston MA, United States
  • Date: 2005-7-17 to 2005-7-20
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 565-570
• Monograph Title: 6th International Bridge Engineering Conference, July 17-20, 2005
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: CD 11-S
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Arch bridges; Bridge design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bridge replacement; Budget constraints
• Geographic Terms: Columbus (Ohio)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01002447
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309093813
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 28 2005 3:59PM