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Underwater Inspection and Repair of Bridge Substructures [.Tl [•1•] NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM SYNTHESIS OF HIGHWAY PRACTICE UNDERWATER INSPECTION AND REPAIR OF BRIDGE SUBSTRUCTURES Supv ) ç J j p1 JUNO 81982 3 up2Leder I.T.D. DIV OF H!GHWAYS BRIDGE SECTION FUe_OUT MAIL TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1981 Officers Chairman THOMAS D. LARSON Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Vice Chairman DARRELL V MANNING, Director, Idaho Transportation Department Secretary THOMAS B. DEEN, Executive Director, Transportation Research Board Members RAY A. BARNHART, Federal Highway Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation (cx officio) ROBERT W. BLANCHETTE, Federal Railroad Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation (cx officio) FRANCIS B. FRANCOIS, Executive Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (cx officio) WILLIAM J. HARRIS, JR., Vice President—Research and lest Department, Association of American Railroad.. (ex officio) J. LYNN HELMS, Federal Aviation Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation (cx officio) PETER G. KOLTNOW, President, Highway Users Federation for Safety and Mobility (cx officio. Past Chairman, 1979) ELLIOTT W. MONTROLL, Chairman, Co,n,nission on Sociotechnical Systems, National Research Council (cx officio) RAYMOND A. PECK, JR., National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation (cx officio) ARTHUR E. TEELE, JR., Urban Mass Transportation Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation (cx officio) JOHN F. WING, Senior Vice President, Booz. Allen & Hamilton. Inc. (cx officio, MTRB liaison) CHARLEY V. WOOTAN. Director, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University (cx officio, Past Chairman 1980) GEORGE J. BEAN. Director of Aviation, Hilisborough County (Florida) Aviation Authority THOMAS W. BRADSHAW, JR., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Transportation RICHARD P. BRAUN, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation ARTHUR J. BRUEN, JR., Vice President, Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago LAWRENCE D. DAHMS, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission. San Francisco Bay Area ADRIANA GIANTURCO, Director, California Department of Transportation JACK R. GILSTRAP, Executive Vice President, American Public Transit Association MARK G. GOODE. Engineer-Director. Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation WILLIAM C. HENNESSY. Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation ARTHUR J. HOLLAND, Mayor, Trento,,, New Jersey JACK KI NSTLI NGER, Executive Director. Colorado Department of Highways MARVIN L. MANH ElM, Professor. Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DANIEL T. MURPHY, County Executive, Oakland County Courthouse. Michigan RICHARD S. PAGE, General Manager, Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority PHILIP J. RINGO, Chairman of the Board, ATE Management and Service Co., Inc. MARK D. ROB ESON. Chairman. Finance ('ommittee. Yellow Freight Systems. Inc. GUERDON S. SINES, Vice President—Information and Control Systems, ,fissouri Pacific Railroad JOHN E. STEINER, Vice President, Corporate Product Development, The Boeing Company NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM Transportation Research Board Executive Co,nmittee Subco,nmittee for NCHRP THOMAS D. LARSON. Pennsylvania Dept. of Transp. (Chairman) RAY A. BARNHART. U.S. Dept. of Transportation DARRELL V MANNING. Idaho Transp. Dept. ELLIOTT W. MONTROLL, National Research Council FRANCIS B. FRANCOIS, Amer. Ass,,. State Hwy. & Transp. Officials CHARLEY V. WOOTAN, Texas A&M University THOMAS B. DEEN, Transportation Research Board Program Staff Field of Special Projects KRIEGER W. HENDERSON, JR., Director, Cooperative Research Programs Project Com,nittee SP 20-5 LOUIS M. MAcGREGOR, Administrative Engineer CRAWFORD F. JENCKS, Projects Engineer RAY R. BIEGE, JR., Kansas Dept. of Tram,sp. (Chairman) R. IAN KINGHAM, Projects Engineer VERDI ADAM, Louisia,,a Dept. of Transp. and Development ROBERT J. REILLY, Projects Engineer ROBERT N. BOTHMAN, Oregon Dept. of Transportation HARRY A. SMITH, Projects Engineer JACK H. DILLARD, Virginia Hwy. and Transp. Research Council ROBERT E. SPICHER, Projects Engineer JACK FRIEDENRICH, New Jersey Dept. of Transportation HELEN MACK, Editor DAVID GEDNEY, Federal Highway Administration BRYANT MATHER, USAE Waterways Experiment Station TRB Stafffor Project 20-5 THOMAS H. MAY, Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation THEODORE F. MORF, Consultant PAUL E. IRICK. Assistant Director for Technical Activities Division EDWARD A. MUELLER, Jacksonville Transp. Authority THOMAS L. COPAS, Special Projects Engineer MILTON P. CRIS WELL, Federal Highway Administ ratio,, HERBERT A. PENNOCK, Special Projects Engineer K. B. JOHNS. Transportation Research Board NANCY A. ACKERMAN, Editor NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM 88 SYNTHESIS OF HIGHWAY PRACTICE UNDERWATER INSPECTION AND REPAIR OF BRIDGE SUBSTRUCTURES H.C. LAMBERTON, JR. and ALFREDO J. SAINZ Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff ROBERT A. CRAWFORD Suboceanic Consultants, Inc. WILLIAM B. OGLETREE and JAMES E. GUNN Ogletree Gunn & Associates Topic Panel JOHN J. AHLSKOG, Federal Highway Administration JACK E. BABER, Naval Facilities Engineering Command CRAIG A. BALLINGER, Federal Highway Administration ADRIAN G. CLARY, Transportation Research Board G.F. DALQUIST, Burlington Northern, Inc. - AL J. DUNN, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development GAYLE E. LANE, Illinois Department of Transportation JIMMY D. LEE, North Carolina Department of Transportation RESEARCH SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN ROBERT J. REILLY, Transportation Research Board ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND JACK W. ROBERTS, Florida Department of Transportation TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS IN COOPERATION LAWRENCE F. SPAINE, WITH THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION Transportation Research Board TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 1981 NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM NCHRP SYNTHESIS 88 Project 20-5 FY 1978 (Topic 10-08) Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effec- ISSN 0547-5570 tive approach to the solution of many problems facing high- ISBN 0-309-03407-8 way administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 8 1-85777 are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state Price: $7.60 universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex prob- Subject Areas lems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems Structures Design and Performance are best studied through a coordinated program of coopera- Construction tive research. Maintenance In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators Modes of the American Association of State Highway and Transpor- Highway Transportation tation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national Rail Transportation highway research program employing modern scientific tech- niques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by NOTICE funds from participating member states of the Association The project that is the subject of this report was a part of the National Cooper- and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal ative Highway Research Program conducted by the Transportation Research Highway Administration, United States .Department of Board with the approval of the Governing Board of the National Research Transportation. Council, acting in behalf of the National Academy of Sciences. Such approval reflects the Governing Board's judgment that the program concerned is of The Transportation Research Board of the National Re- national importance and appropriate with respect to both the purposes and search Council was requested by the Association to ad- resources of the National Research Council. The members of the technical committee selected to monitor this project and minister the research program because of the Board's recog- to review this report were chosen for recognized scholarly competence and nized objectivity and understanding of modern research with due consideration for the balance of disciplines appropriate to the project. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied are those of the research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as: agency that performed the research, and, while they have been accepted as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which appropriate by the technical committee, they are not necessarily those of the authorities on any highway transportation subject may be Transportation Research Board, the National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, or the program sponsors. drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooper- Each report is reviewed and processed according to procedures established ation with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, and monitored by the Report Review Committee of the National Academy of universities, and industry; its relationship to its parent orga- Sciences. Distribution of the report is approved by the President of the Acàd- emy upon satisfactory completion of the review process. nization, the National Academy of Sciences, a private, non- The National Research Council was established by the National Academy profit institution, is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and tech-
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