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Design Guidelines, Criteria and Standards: Volume 5 – Bridge Design

- Concrete containing bar reinforcement and designed on the assumption


that the two materials act together in resisting forces.
- Used as flat slabs or beams. Reinforced concrete would normally be
constructed on-site.
 Prestressed concrete:
- Reinforced concrete in which internal stresses have been introduced by
prestressing high-strength steel bars / tendons to eliminate / reduce tensile
stresses in the concrete.
- Used in the form of flat slabs, voided slabs, girders or box girders.
- Can be constructed in situ on falsework, assembled in situ using precast
segments, supplied in segments that are assembled on site and lifted into
position, or supplied complete from a precast concrete factory. The mode of
transportation may limit the maximum size of precast element that can be
delivered to site.
- May be either pre-tensioned or post tensioned. Pretensioned is when the
concrete is cast around wires stressed between fixed anchors and the
concrete is prestressed when the stressed wires are released. Post-
tensioned is when the concrete is prestressed by jacking cables in ducts cast
in the concrete elements and anchoring the cables at the ends of the beams.
Grouting of the ducts is necessary to prevent corrosion.

Steel Bridge
 Steel I-Beam: Use of hot rolled (or supplier welded) I-section beams of
standard sizes.
 Steel Plate Girder: Use of steel beams fabricated from multiple flat plates
welded together.
 Steel Truss: A structure formed from connected straight tension and
compression members formed into triangular units. Trusses can be made
deeper, longer and stronger than a beam / girder. Used as through-trusses
where the road passes through the truss or as deck-trusses where the roadway
is on top of the truss. It can also be used to form double deck bridges.
 Steel Box Girder: A steel beam built up of from stiffened flat plates to form a
hollow cross-section.
Steel I-beam and plate girder bridges are normally made composite with a
concrete deck to reduce the weight and cost of bridges.
Steel box girders are generally made composite with a steel bridge deck bridge to
form a lightweight deck for long spans.
Steel bridges are normally fabricated in sections suitable for transport and
assembled in situ using either bolted or welded connections. Deformation control
during erection is a major issue with long span steel bridges and these bridges
typically make extensive use of stiffened plates.
Steel bridges require painting for protection against corrosion.

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