Virginia: Route 40 Over the Falling River, Lynchburg District

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Corporate Contributors:
  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bridge design
  • Highway bridges
  • I beams
  • Bridges
  • Compressive strength
  • Design build construction
  • Design
  • Girder bridges
  • High performance concrete
  • Prestressed concrete bridges
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-RD-00-122
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Virginia
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The high-performance concrete (HPC) bridge, located in Brookneal, Virginia is a two-lane 13.4-m-wide (44-ft-wide) structure made up of four equal spans that are 24.4 m (80 ft) long. Each of the simple spans consists of five AASHTO Type IV pretensioned concrete I-beams. The beams are spaced at 3.1 m (10.3 ft) on center. The HPC bridge contains five beams, compared to the seven beams needed if the bridge had been designed as a conventional concrete bridge. This resulted in a net savings of eight beams for the four-span bridge. The bid bridge construction cost was $527/sq m ($49/sq ft). This may be compared to the 1994 average of $624/sq m ($58/sq ft) for 34 bridges in the Federal-aid highway system in Virginia. The initial savings over conventional bridge concrete and construction was estimated to be 4%.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40865/dot_40865_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 56.38 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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