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The site conditions just about always dictate the basic layout of a structure. The choices of materials and appearance are usually made by the engineer. The materials going into the structure get a great deal of attention, but unfortunately the appearance too frequently does not. It is not unusual then to find a very few structures with deficiencie
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Three single section and one trisection girder, s eight feet long were fabricated and load tested to determine the deflection, strain, and creep characteristics of the members. One specimen fabricated with stranded elements composed of Kevlar 49 instead of glass exhibited improved stiffness properties. The maximum load applied to a specimen was 600
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It was found that the coordinates of the highways required for Noise 1 could be supplied on punched cards by the Photogrammetry Section of the Department. In preparing data for contour plotting, it was found advisable to divide the area into sectors, with each sector being surrounded by the edges of roads or by internal boundaries. In this manner,
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A pilot laboratory treatment system was successfully employed to investigate the reuse of wastewater for flushing toilets at highway rest areas. This extended aeration unit used a synthetic waste to determine if the biological system could operate efficiently at high dissolved solids concentrations produced by effluent recycle rates of up to 95 per
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Bridge demolition has long been known to mobilize large amounts of stream sediment in the immediate area of the structure. An ecological assessment in terms of stream macroinvertebrate samples and suspended solids measurements was made shortly before, shortly after and eight months after a demolition of a bridge deck. No environmental damage was in
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This report is directed to highway and transportation officials and other state and local government officials faced with questions of public transit subsidies. The questions are very real ones and, in this one's opinion, require well founded answers.* By means of this exposition, the author provides the above audience with several conclusions, rec
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This report recommended that NOISE 3 initially use the same basic logic as the MICNOISE program for highway noise prediction except that additional options be made available, such as flexibility in specifying vehicle noise sources. A choice of six noise ratings was recommended, including Ldn, the day-night level then being proposed by the EPA for g
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The load distribution on a 48.5-ft. span timber deck-steel girder bridge built to the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation standard SS-4 requirements was investigated under two conditions. The first condition was concerned with the load distribution when the timber deck fasteners were tight and the second condition involved investigat
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This report describes an evaluation of the latex modified mortar overlay the Route 85 (NBL) bridge over the Roanoke River. While the performance of the overlay has been generally satisfactory, corings and chloride analyses indicate the possibility of future distress beyond the cracking that has been noted to date The problems associated with the ov
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Virginia has provided skid resistant pavements in the limestone area of the state by placing thin overlays of sand mixes incorporating local materials, by sprinkling highly skid resistant aggregates on limestone bituminous mixes prior to rolling, and by blending polish resistant aggregate with limestone. All of these methods have met with success,
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Because of the potentially conflicting considerations for cost, durability, environment and safety the design engineer must have information on each such subject on which to base his decisions. The great variety of pavement textures for affecting the noise levels generated by traffic on the highway, made the need for information on the effect of pa
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Waterproof membrane systems are being studied by many agencies from the standpoint of their effectiveness in protecting the reinforcing steel in concrete bridge decks against corrosion. Trial applications and evaluations of six such systems, including both preformed sheet and liquid membranes, were made in Virginia during the period from 1972 throu
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The testing of 15 bridges on Route I-64 just west of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel marked the first major use of electrical potential readings and chloride analyses in evaluating the condition of bridge decks in Virginia. Two of the decks were also sounded with a chain drag to disclose any areas of delaminated concrete. In general, the electrical
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This report is an update of a similar publication prepared in 1965 by John Thompson It presents a summary comparison between the highway revenues of Virginia and those of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. It details the types of taxes levied in each state viz., motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle registration taxes and f
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Two streams being channelized under Department contracts have been monitored since June 1974. Suspended solids, flow, rainfall and benthic population measurements have been obtained at various times for each stream. At present, all but the benthic population data have been processed. Research will continue on the two streams monitored in 1974. In a
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This report is a combination of Analytic Study #5 (Diagnosis and Referral) and Analytic Study #6 (Rehabilitation). Data concerning these countermeasures are presented together because of their very close relationship within the Fairfax ASAP. Both the diagnosis and referral, and the rehabilitation systems are described and statistics concerning thei
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Various curing and/or protective coatings were evaluated under three conditions: (1) accelerated laboratory freezing and thawing of specimens in 2 percent sodium chloride solution, (2) exposure in an outdoor area of slabs subjected to controlled application of deicers, and (3) exposure of some of the materials on three bridges. The performance of t
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It has been recognized for many years that fatigue is one of many mechanisms by which asphaltic concrete pavements fail. Experience and empirical design procedures such as those developed by Marshall and Hveem have enabled engineers to design-mixtures against most common premature failure mechanisms such as rutting and bleeding, but due to the comp
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The study investigated the feasibility of eliminating aggregate particulates passing the #200 and #100 sieves from a surface mix (S-5) gradation. Feasibility was to be determined on the basis of test mixtures, with particulates deleted, meeting Virginia's specifications. Two aggregates, greenstone and granite, were used to prepare Marshall specimen
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