Location

STEW 214AB

Session Number

06

Session Title

Inspection Guidelines and Criteria for Load Rating Box Beam Bridges

Track Title

Bridges

Event Description/Abstract

Adjacent box beams present difficulty in inspections and assessing interior deterioration. This presentation discusses methods to perform deterioration inspections on adjacent box beams and how to utilize field data to load rate box beams. This will be of special interest to inspectors, engineers and load raters. The objective will be to have a better understanding of deterioration and how it affects load capacity of box beam bridges.

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Mar 10th, 12:00 AM

Inspection Guidelines and Criteria for Load Rating Box Beams

STEW 214AB

Adjacent box beams present difficulty in inspections and assessing interior deterioration. This presentation discusses methods to perform deterioration inspections on adjacent box beams and how to utilize field data to load rate box beams. This will be of special interest to inspectors, engineers and load raters. The objective will be to have a better understanding of deterioration and how it affects load capacity of box beam bridges.