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Bridge Railing Design Requirements

Since the implementation of the bridge rail guidance provided in AASHTO LRFD BDS Section 13 (AASHTO 2017), the landscape of roadside safety hardware testing, evaluation, and design has changed ...
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LRFD-Based Analysis and Design Procedures for Bridge Bearings and Seismic Isolators

Keywords: Load and resistance factor design (LRFD) framework. Seismic designs. Bridges. Seismic isolation systems. Polytetraflouroethylene (PTFE) spherical bearings. Elastomeric bearings. California.
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Training Engineers On Concrete Bridge Design

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...
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AASHTO and Bentley Align to Extend AASHTOWare Bridge Management Software with Bentley’s InspectTech Modules

Bentley’s BrIM suite includes RM Bridge, LEAP Bridge Enterprise, LARS Bridge, and more. About AASHTO and AASHTOWare AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing highway and ...
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Bridge Railing Design Requirements

This review considered the state of the practice in the testing, design, and evaluation procedures for bridge rail systems. For this review, the current AASHTO LRFD BDS (AASHTO 2020a) was considered ...