Development of General Guidelines Related to the Effects of Factors Such as the Bridge Span Range, Range of Pile Length, Roadway Profile Grade, and Skew Angle Range on Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs)

Faraji-Hennessey, Susan; Lacroix, James; Gandhi, Harsh

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Development of General Guidelines Related to the Effects of Factors Such as the Bridge Span Range, Range of Pile Length, Roadway Profile Grade, and Skew Angle Range on Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs)

2025-12-01
By Faraji-Hennessey, Susan ; Lacroix, James ; Gandhi, Harsh

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Faraji-Hennessey, Susan ; Lacroix, James ; Gandhi, Harsh
Corporate Creators:

University of Massachusetts at Lowell ; University of Maine. Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC)
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Subject/TRT Terms:

Abutments Bridges Bridge Substructures Construction Cracking Guidelines Skew Bridges Structures Support Piles Traffic Lanes
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Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

University of Maine. Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC)
Abstract:

The overall objective of this research was to improve the guidelines for the modeling, design, and construction of integral abutment bridges (IABs). Based on input from the DOTs the following topics were considered for the study: (i) In-plane rotation of skewed integral abutment bridges: An analytical study (ii) Preliminary design of piles in integral abutment bridges (iii) Impact of the abutment wall height, unsymmetrical backfill stiffness, and the span length on the behavior of integral abutment bridges (iv) The impact of the use of expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam on thermally induced stresses on the superstructure and substructure of integral abutment bridges: A parametric study For the topics under study, many plots and Tables were created to be used by practicing bridge engineers to optimize the design of integral abutment brides.
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69A3551847101
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