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Temperature Effects On Integral Abutment Bridges For The Long-Term Bridge Performance Program, Leo E. Rodriguez
Temperature Effects On Integral Abutment Bridges For The Long-Term Bridge Performance Program, Leo E. Rodriguez
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program was started by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 2009 to gather high-quality data on a collection of typical bridges over a twenty-year period of time. The goal of this program is to create databases of high quality data acquired through long-term instrumentation of the bridges behavior during their service life.
The data gathered will be used to improve design practices and effective management of infrastructures. As part of the LTBP Program two integral abutment bridges, a California Bridge near Sacramento, CA and a Utah Bridge near Perry, UT, were selected to be monitored …