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dc.contributor.authorLequesne, Rémy D.
dc.contributor.authorCollins, William N.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-07T20:01:29Z
dc.date.available2022-04-07T20:01:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-01
dc.identifier.citationLequesne, R.D., Collins, W.N., (2020). "Load Rating Reinforced Concrete Bridges without Plans: State-of-the-Practice". American Concrete Institute. Vol. 342, pp. 80-97en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/32692
dc.description.abstractIn response to Federal Highway Administration requirements, several states are in the process of ensuring all bridges within their inventories are load rated. A challenging aspect of this effort is load rating reinforced concrete bridges that have no structural plans when there are thousands of such structures within a state inventory. To inform these efforts, the literature was reviewed to identify existing methodologies and a survey was distributed to engineers at state departments of transportation throughout the United States to understand how practicing engineers approach this problem. The survey responses show there are numerous bridges in the U.S. without plans; over 25000 bridges without plans are located in the 18 states that provided responses. Concrete structures comprise 70% of such bridges. To load rate concrete bridges without plans, most responding states report primarily using engineering judgement, which may include reference to performance under existing traffic, era-specific design traffic loads, assumed material properties and reinforcement quantities, or data collected using load tests or non-destructive evaluation. Several methodologies are described and advantages/limitations of each are discussed.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Concrete Instituteen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://www.concrete.org/publications/internationalconcreteabstractsportal.aspx?m=details&id=51725938en_US
dc.subjectLoad ratingen_US
dc.subjectConcreteen_US
dc.subjectBridgeen_US
dc.subjectBridge with unknown detailsen_US
dc.subjectNDEen_US
dc.titleLoad Rating Reinforced Concrete Bridges without Plans: State-of-the-Practiceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorLequesne, Rémy D.
kusw.kudepartmentCivil, Environmental and Architectural Engineeringen_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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