I am on a project which specifies the following for load transfer dowels in a junction slab (Basically the slab that prevents overturning when a vehicle hits a traffic railing mounted on a MSE Wall, the dowels transfer the load at expansion joints):
Dowel Load transfer devices will be ASTM A 36...
Everyone,
I need help with a load rating.
Please see the attached picture for the girder configuration. Essentially its two bridges, with the right bridge constructed in 1993 with 9 pre stressed unit (PSU, precast solid) girders and the left side was constructed in 2005 with 11 girders. Each...
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We are replacing a approach slab on a state road project in florida. The approach slab is for an existing bridge approx. 50 years old. The standards call to dowel and expoy #8 bars into the existing bridge's backwall which the approach slab will be poured onto. However my concern is...
