Validation and implementation of bridge design specifications for barge impact loading : [summary].

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• Creators:
  Consolazio, Gary
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway bridges
  • Bridge design
  • Specifications
  • Maritime accidents
  • Barges
  • Risk assessment
  • Finite element method
  • Impact loads
  • Steel
  • Strain measurement
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDK75-977-31
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  With the amount of water-borne traffic and the number of bridges in Florida, collisions between vessels and bridges are inevitable. Few are as devastating as the 1980 collision of a freighter with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which took 35 lives and ended the bridge’s service life, requiring construction of a new bridge. Nevertheless, every collision between a vessel and a bridge is dangerous for the vessel and its occupants, as well as the bridge and its many users. Collisions often lead to closures and expensive repairs. ; This project is one in a series conducted by University of Florida (UF) researchers working with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to improve procedures for impact-resistant bridge design. Standard procedures for this were published over 20 years ago by AASHTO; since then, UF and FDOT have improved considerably upon them. The focus of this work was experimental validation of an improved UF/FDOT barge impact load-prediction model and implementation of numerous other UF/FDOT procedures into a comprehensive risk assessment methodology that can be readily adopted for use in bridge design.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27717/dot_27717_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.02 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3bc36dcd49dda573d9bccfa009cdeb7546e133e8077fa38ed260f8d838c29f6f