THE CONCRETE BRIDGE MAGAZINE Winter 2010 g www.aspirebridge.or Kentucky Route 22 Gratz, Kentucky SPENCER CREEK BRIDGE Newport, Oregon GULF INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY BRIDGE Matagorda, Texas JAKWAY PARK BRIDGE Buchanan County, Iowa HUMPBACK BRIDGE OVER THE BOUNDARY CHANNEL Near Washington, D.C. GALENA CREEK BRIDGE Reno, Nevada COLLEGE BOULEVARD GOLF CART BRIDGE Carlsbad, California We support you... ...while you support the world. Our advanced structural analysis and design software specializes in cable-stayed, suspension and segmental bridges. It is our dedicated support team which sets LARSA 4D apart from the rest and ensures that your projects are optimized for success. Unlimited technical support and custom training sessions make LARSA 4D software the company standard at FIGG, HDR, Parsons Brinckerhoff, PBS&J, International Bridge Technologies, T.Y. Lin International and many other leading engineering and design firms, around the world. 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Galena Creek Bridge 32 A context-sensitive solution that will be the world’s largest concrete cathedral-arch bridge. College Boulevard Golf Cart Bridge 36 Golf course’s cast-in-place pedestrian bridge offers clean look that complements the clubhouse. Departments Editorial 2 Reader Response 4 28 Concrete Calendar 6 Perspective—Toward Green Bridge Standards 12 Photo: Cianbro Corp. Aesthetics Commentary 23 Concrete Connections 40 32 Maintenance, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Bridges 41 FHWA—Sustainability of Concrete Bridges 44 STATE—Infrastructure Focus and Close Relationships Work in Pennsylvania 46 Safety and Serviceability 50 COUNTY—Harris County, Texas 51 AASHTO LRFD Specifications 52 Services LLC. Prestress Photo: Rendering: CH2M Hill. Advertisers Index CABA ...................... .Back Cover Poseidon Barge Corporation . 15 Campbell Scientific . 19 Shuttlelift ........................... 5 FIGG ...............................3 T.Y. Lin International ..................7 Headwaters Resources ................. 6 ThyssenKrupp Safway Inc. .............27 Larsa ................Inside Front Cover Transpo Industries Inc. ................42 PCI ..............31, 39, Inside Back Cover ASPIRE, Winter 2010 | 1 EDITORIAL Executive Editor: John S. Dick Sustainability and Managing Technical Editor: Dr. Henry G. the Art of Concrete Bridge Design Russell Managing Editor: Craig A. Shutt Editorial Administration: James O. Ahtes Inc. Art Director: Mark Leader, John S. Dick, Executive Editor Leader Graphic Design Inc. Photo: Ted Lacey Photography. Layout Design: Jim Henson, Leader Graphic Design Inc. ith this issue, ASPIRE™ begins its third year for interesting solutions. These projects also illustrate Electronic Production: Chris Bakker, of exploring sustainable solutions. We find the different techniques for building concrete arches. We W Jim Henson, Leader Graphic Design Inc. subject more pervasive—in a most positive way—with believe you, too, will find these projects innovative and each passing year. Both Myint Lwin and Scott Snelling useful in the future consideration of such designs. Ad Sales: Jim Oestmann address the topic in their articles. Myint, who is director, Janssen & Spaans Engineering (JSE) has played an Phone: (847) 838-0500 • Cell: (847) 924-5497 Office of Bridge Technology at the Federal Highway important role in concrete bridge design for nearly 30 Fax: (847) 838-0555 Administration, provides transcribed comments made years. They have been involved in two record bridge [email protected] during a presentation last November at the American spans in recent years. Since 1960, the two parallel Reprint Sales: Mark Leader Segmental Bridge Institute’s annual convention in Oneida Lake Bridges in Brewerton, N.Y., were the world’s (847) 564-5409 Minneapolis. Scott is a senior engineer with Hardesty & longest precast, prestressed concrete bridge spans at 320 e-mail: [email protected] Hanover in New York City and serves on the American ft. But, in 2000, a JSE design for the Moore Haven Bridge Publisher: Society of Civil Engineers’ Task Committee for over the Okeechobee Waterway in Florida resulted in Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Sustainable Design. From his background, he suggests a three-span unit with a 320-ft-long main span, tying James G. Toscas, President what a new national standard for sustainable bridge the record. The Kentucky Route 22 project, shown on Editorial Advisory Board: design could look like, based on existing sustainability the cover and mentioned in the FOCUS on JSE, when Susan N. Lane, Portland Cement Association standards for buildings. completed, will be the new world record holder, with a (PCA) ASPIRE has highlighted many arch bridge projects main span of 325 ft. Along the way, techniques pioneered John S. Dick, Precast/Prestressed Concrete over the years including three in this issue, and there by JSE and used in the design and construction of Institute (PCI) is yet another waiting in the wings for the Spring issue. spliced girder bridges have become commonplace. We William R. Cox, American Segmental Bridge The three projects in this issue are: are proud to feature them in this issue. Institute (ASBI) • Spencer Creek Bridge, Newport, Ore., The Jakway Park Bridge in Iowa not only uses ultra- David McDonald, Epoxy Interest Group (EIG) • Humpback Bridge over the Boundary Channel on high-performance concrete at a design compressive Dr. Henry G. Russell, Managing Technical Editor the George Washington Parkway near Washington, strength of 21,500 psi but employs a special new D.C. in Virginia. shape called the Pi girder (owing to its cross-section’s POSTMASTER: Send address changes to • Galena Creek Bridge on the I-580 Freeway resemblance to the Greek letter). Created by the ASPIRE, Extension, near Reno, Nev., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Federal 200 W. Adams St., Suite 2100, The arch is structurally and aesthetically well-suited Highway Administration, the shape takes advantage of Chicago, IL 60606. for creating highway bridges. Fred Gottemoeller, in his the material’s unique properties. Standard postage paid at Chicago, IL, and popular book titled, Bridgescape: the Art of Designing The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation additional mailing offices. Bridges, says about evaluating bridge types, “…if it is is this issue’s featured state. The concrete industry ASPIRE (Vol. 4, No. 1), desirable for the structure to frame an important view, acknowledges Pennsylvania as home to the nation’s ISSN 1935-2093 is published quarterly than a structural type with a curved, arched soffit will first modern precast, prestressed concrete bridge; a by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, be an effective choice...Arches continue to have strong cutting edge solution for the time. Today, PennDOT 200 W. Adams St., Suite 2100, visual appeal because of their shape…Arch bridges continues its state-of-the-art applications of concrete Chicago, IL 60606. look best where the surroundings ‘contain’ the visual technology. Copyright 2010, Precast/Prestressed Concrete thrust of the arch.” Each article serves as a testament to wise decisions Institute. Each highlighted project uses the arch in a unique by designers and good investments by owners on behalf If you have a project to be con sidered for ASPIRE, way. 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Silica Fume Expanded Shale Clay Association and Slate Institute and take the ASPIRE Reader Survey. 2 | ASPIRE, Winter 2010 Penobscot Narrows Bridge I-280 Veterans’ Glass City & Observatory, Maine Skyway, Ohio Cradle Outer Sheath Cut-A-Way View showing Interstitial Space (Filled with grout) and 7-Wire Strand (Epoxy or HDPE Coated) Sheath Pipe Connection Cable-Stay Cable-Stayed Strands OWNER: Maine Department Bridge Technology OWNER: Ohio Department of Transportation Of Transportation The FIGG Cable-Stay Cradle System™ Invention – first used DESIGNER: FIGG DESIGNER: FIGG in the I-280 Veterans’ Glass City Skyway, Ohio & Penobscot CONTRACTOR: CONTRACTOR: Bilfinger Cianbro/Reed & Reed, JV Narrows Bridge & Observatory, Maine – was designed to Berger Civil Inc. revolutionize cable-stay bridges. The cradle