26th Annual International Bridge Conference 2009

IBC 2009: Meeting Bridge Challenges in Challenging Times

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 14-17 June 2009

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FEATURED AGENCY Chair: Tom Macioce

IBC 09-FA-01 Evolution of Bridge Inspection ...... 1 Lance Savant

IBC 09-FA-02 PennDOT’s Quality Assurance and Inspection Program for Bridge Fabrication...... 6 Robert Horwhat, Joseph Bracken III

IBC 09-FA-03 PennDOT’s 100 Year Bridge Summit - Putting the Plan into Practice...... 9 Kristin Langer

IBC 09-FA-04 Historic Bridges of Pennsylvania: An Industrial Legacy in Transit...... 13 Kara Russell

IBC 09-FA-05 PA Bridge Risk Assessment Strategy ...... 21 Anthony McCloskey

DESIGN, PART 1 Chair: Gerald Pitzer

IBC 09-01 Digitally Optimized Structural Design and Manufacturing Inspire Novel Footbridge Typologies...... 28 Sigrid Adriaenssens, Laurent Ney, Eric Bodarwe, Vincent Dister

IBC 09-02 Avenues Walk Flyover ...... 33 Samuel Spear

IBC 09-03 Design of a Four-Span Steel Bridge with Challenging Site Conditions, Numerous Geometric Constraints, Geotechnical Concerns and Three Abutments ...... 41 James Andrews, Ahmad Ahmadi, Keith Michael

IBC 09-04 Dynamic Amplifications in Bridge Pier Design Forces Under Barge-Bridge Collision Loading...... 49 Michael Davidson, Gary Consolazio

IBC 09-05 Maple-Oregon Double Leaf Rolling Lift Bascule Bridge ...... 57 Todd Ude, Ken Smorynski

DESIGN-BUILD Chair: William Rohleder Jr.

IBC 09-06 I-35W: Soaring over the Mississippi River in Eleven Months ...... 63 Alan Phipps, Kevin Western

IBC 09-07 The Christopher S. Bond Cable-Stayed Bridge ...... 66 Patrick Cassity, Tom Skinner

IBC 09-08 Design of the Indian River Inlet Cable Stayed Bridge...... 72 Kenneth Butler, Glen Allen, Douglass Robb, Peo Halvarsson

IBC 09-09 Bridge Design Along Sea-to-Sky Highway ...... 80 Schaun Valdovinos

IBC 09-10 Design/Build Collaboration: Contractor, Engineer & Steel Fabricator ...... 88 Daniel Rogers, Tom Wandzilak

BRIDGE EVALUATION Chair: Jeffrey Campbell

IBC 09-11 Emergency Gusset Plate Repair under Live Load...... 95 Michael Malloy

IBC 09-12 The Smith Street Bridge: Rehabilitation of a Cantilever Deck Truss...... 102 C. Michael Cooper, Thomas Hack

IBC 09-13 McKinley Bridge Reconstruction...... 103 Anne Zweibel, Jeffrey Routson

IBC 09-14 Rehabilitation of the Ramsdell Road Bridge...... 109 Matthew Low, Edward Weingartner

IBC 09-15 Three-Dimensional Analysis and Load Rating of the Innerbelt Bridge...... 117 Daniel Baxter, Jeff Broadwater, Toader Balan

IBC 09-16 Developing a Novel pH Buffer Methodology to Inhibit Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement in Concrete ...... 125 Michael Loy

CONSTRUCTION Chair: Calvin Boring

IBC 09-17 Post Tsunami Bridge Reconstruction in Indonesia...... 138 Robert Magliola

IBC 09-18 An Improved Link for Safety and Security, New Florida Avenue Bridge, New Orleans, Louisiana ...... 145 Kirti Pancholi

IBC 09-19 Innovative Widening Truss Erection of the Huey P. Long Bridge...... 153 John Brestin, Hans Hutton, Keith Jacobson

IBC 09-20 Wind Loads on Steel Box Girders During Construction Using Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis ...... 159 Glenn Myers, Ali Ghalib

IBC 09-21 Design and Construction Aspects of Post-Tensioned Concrete Incrementally Launched Bridges...... 178 Teddy Theryo, Antonio Ledesma, Seungwoo Lee, Paul Towell

IBC 09-22 I-76 Allegheny River Bridge Pennsylvania's First Long Span Cast-In-Place Concrete Segmental Bridge...... 190 Garrett Hoffman, Gary Graham

IBC 09-23 Construction of the Pomeroy Mason Cable Stayed Bridge...... 192 Jorge Suarez, Don Tillis

CONTEXT SENSITIVE DESIGN Chair: Thomas Leech

IBC 09-24 Boulevard of the Allies Bridge Over Forbes Avenue...... 200 Cheryl Moon-Sirianni, Robert Pintar Jr., Patrick Hassett

IBC 09-25 Towards Green Bridges ...... 209 Scott Snelling

IBC 09-26 Design and Performance of Riveted Bridge Connections...... 229 William Vermes

IBC 09-27 Replacement of Historic Tied Through Arch Bridge ...... 237 Daniel Rogers, Quentin Rissler

IBC 09-28 Urban Planning and the Design of Bridges: A Case Study ...... 243 Thomas Piotrowski, Bruce Chamberlin

IBC 09-29 Total Integration of Architecture, Engineering and Construction Realities ...... 248 Michael Fitzpatrick, Jim Grube

IBC 09-30 Cable Stayed Bridges in City Centres...... 249 Pekka Pulkkinen, Erik Eriksson, Antti Karjalainen

LONG SPAN BRIDGES Chair: Carl Angeloff

IBC 09-31 Construction of the Kanawha River Bridge: A Record Segmental Span ...... 253 Santiago Rodriguez, Ahmed N.K. Mongi

IBC 09-32 Crossing the Han River...... 261 Radu Dragan

IBC 09-33 Performance Based Design of Long-Span Cable Stayed Bridge Towers ...... 269 Alp Caner, Cenan Ozkaya

IBC 09-34 Study on Flutter Control Measures of Long Span Bridge with Truss Girder Based on CFD Model ...... 276 Gao Liu, Tiancheng Liu

IBC 09-35 Study on Structural System of Sutong Bridge...... 277 Xigang Zhang, Hong Yuan, Minshan Pei, Liji Huang

IBC 09-36 A New Landmark Bridge to Da Nang City, Vietnam ...... 284 Esko Järvenpää, Sami Niemelä, Atte Mikkonen, Esko Leppäluoto

IBC 09-37 Structural Hardening for Cable Elements of Cable Supported Bridges...... 288 Nathan Sauer

BRIDGE MONITORING Chair: James Garrett

IBC 09-38 Monitoring System Behavior During Earthquake...... 296 Gilles Hovhanessian, Benoit Kroely, A. Vlamis-Stathopoulos

IBC 09-39 Fracture Critical Alaska Bridge Inspections Using Rope Access Techniques...... 299 Brian Leshko

IBC 09-40 Multi-Level Bridge Deck Evaluation Using Combined NDT Methods ...... 307 Kenneth Maser, B.C. Miller, D.L. Bohnsack

IBC 09-41 A Holistic Approach to Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges ...... 315 Donald Shaw, James H. Garrett Jr., Jacobo Bielak, Fernando Cerda

IBC 09-42 Fracture Damage Assessment and Monitoring of Cable Stayed Bridge Tie Down Anchorages...... 325 Adrian Ciolko, Christopher Ligozio, Joshua Derechin

IBC 09-43 Monitoring the 352 Meter Long Monaco Floating Pier...... 333 Gilles Hovhanessian, Benoit Kroely

IBC 09-44 Load Testing of Bridges at Logan International Airport...... 337 Evan Lowell

IBC 09-45 Overview of 40 Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Projects...... 343 Daniele Inaudi

IBC 09-46 Integrated Monitoring System of Bridges ...... 351 Cristian Comisu

DESIGN, PART 2 Chair: Kenneth J. Wright

IBC 09-47 Cable-Stayed Bridge across the Odra River, Czech Republic ...... 352 Jiri Strasky

IBC 09-48 Innovative Use of PC/PS Concrete for Light Rail Grade Separation...... 361 Thomas Barnard, Ahmad Abdel-Karim

IBC 09-49 Design Development and Construction of I-5 Beltline (Gateway) Pedestrian Bridge, Eugene /Springfield, Oregon ...... 369 Gary Rayor, Jiri Strasky

IBC 09-50 Utah’s First Segmental Bridge – A Bridge in Harmony with Nature ...... 377 Fred Doehring, Steve Fultz

IBC 09-51 Road Bridge Over the River Sil - Unique Design Simulations...... 382 Peter Barrett, Jorge Perez Armino

IBC 09-52 Impact of Construction Methods on Curved Post-Tensioned Concrete Box Girder Bridges ...... 389 Bo Hu, Dongzhou Huang

IBC 09-53 Effect of Skew Angles on a Simply-supported Curved Steel Plate Girder Bridge ...... 399 Jimin Huang

IBC 09-54 Design of Rail Transit Bridges Using the AASHTO LRFD Code ...... 411 Jeffery Wetmore

IBC 09-55 The Evolution of Segmental Bridge Construction in the State of Florida ...... 420 Timothy Barry

BRIDGE REHABILITATION 1 Chair: Richard Connors

IBC 09-56 Birmingham Bridge Rocker Bearing Failure & Retrofit ...... 428 Louis Ruzzi, Patrick Gaynor, Monica O'Neil, Jason Fuller

IBC 09-57 Design of Stay Cable Replacement for the Luling Bridge...... 436 Armin Mehrabi, Zac McGain

IBC 09-58 Chesapeake City Canal Bridge Back to Its Fatigue-Safe State...... 444 Ahmad Faqiri

IBC 09-59 Optimization of Isolation Bearing Parameters for Effective Mitigation of Seismic Risk for Bridges...... 448 Murat Dicleli, Memduh Karalar

IBC 09-60 Externally Bonded FRP Composites for the Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete T-beam Structures ...... 456 An Chen, Julio F. Davalos, Indrajit Ray, Adam Justice, Matthew Anderson, George Parish, William Sasher, Jeffrey Levan

IBC 09-61 Rehabilitation Challenges of the Route 35 Bridge Over Manasquan River ...... 466 Thomas Fisher, Rama Krishnagiri, Tam Silllick, George Kuhn

IBC 09-62 Exodermic Deck Repairs on the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge ...... 475 William Moreau

IBC 09-63 Managing Fatigue Cracks in Tub Girder Bridges...... 476 Henry Fix, Michael Chajes, Daniel Kucz, James Quiqley

IBC 09-64 Applying Suspension Bridge Suspender Rope Replacement Techniques to the Suspenders of a Through-Arch Bridge (Northway Twin Arch Bridges over the Mohawk River, Albany, NY)...... 484 Blaise Blabac, Barney Martin Jr.

BRIDGE MANAGEMENT/EVALUATION Chair: Donald W. Herbert

IBC 09-65 Bridge Information Modeling (BIM) and Advanced Measuring Methods - Case Laser Scanning In Renovation Design...... 492 Antti Karjalainen, Kirsi Hanninen

IBC 09-66 Comparison of Cost Effectiveness of Various Corrosion-Resistant Reinforcing Bars and Other Corrosion Protection Strategies for New Bridge Decks...... 496 John Lawler, Paul Krauss

IBC 09-67 Load Rating Bridge Substructure Units...... 513 Robert Bondi, Richard Schoedel

IBC 09-68 Comparison of Coating System Service Life Based on Type of Primer, Number of Coats and Surface Preparation Method ...... 520 Jayson Helsel

IBC 09-69 National Tunnel Inspection Standards (NTIS) ...... 528 Jesus Rohena y Correa

IBC 09-70 Data Fusion Of Bridge Inspection Data Using Learning Algorithm...... 534 Amin Hammad, Behzad M. Darban

ACCELERATED BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION Chair: Lisle E. William

IBC 09-71 A Precast Bridge System for Rapid Construction Applications ...... 535 Bruce Campbell, Martin Furrer

IBC 09-72 Riverdale Road Over I-84; Piecing it Together...... 541 Michael Arens, Fred Doehring

IBC 09-73 Design/Build of Bridge ...... 546 William Castle

IBC 09-74 Accelerated Bridge Construction Keeps Tappan Zee Bridge Open...... 551 Mohammad Shams, Kenneth Standig

IBC 09-75 Move the Bridge with Post-Tensioning Devices ...... 559 Jimin Huang

BRIDGE REHABILITATION 2 Chair: Matthew P. McTish

IBC 09-76 Structural Analysis of the Pulp Mill Covered Bridge...... 569 Sean James, Josif Bicja

IBC 09-77 Emergency Pier Repairs to the Kinney Truss Railroad Bridge, Colchester, New York...... 577 Michael Marks

IBC 09-78 Carnegie Interchange Rock Buttress Remediation...... 585 Daniel Martt, Gene Lipovich, Al Hajdarwish, William Adams Jr.

IBC 09-79 Rehabilitation of the 31st Street Bridge...... 594 Sean Hart, Donald Marburger

IBC 09-80 Rehabilitation of Route 50 Drawbridge Ocean City, MD ...... 602 Patrick O'Neill, Scott Reynolds

Author Index