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Opened to traffic in 1955, the twin two-lane Ohio Turnpike bridges over the Cuyahoga River valley span 2,650 ft. and reach as high as 175 ft. above the valley floor. Each bridge is comprised of four 100-ft-long girder spans and nine 250-ft-long truss spans supported by 12 reinforced concrete piers. As the use of deicing salts increased during the 1960s, so did deterioration of the concrete portions of the bridges. The original design permitted salt water to flow directly onto the surfaces of the piers. By the mid-1970s deterioration of the piers became evident. Efforts to patch the piers and divert drainage were made, but the piers had already become so saturated with chlorides that deterioration continued. In 1980, under contract to the Ohio Turnpike Commission, Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff inspected the piers and found that about 40 percent of their surface area was spalled or near spalled. Subsequently the firm recommended methods of repair to prevent recurrence of the condition, prepared plans and specifications for shotcreting (selected atlernative), and provided resident construction inspection.

This paper appeared in Transportation Research Record Number 950, Volume 1, Second Bridge Engineering Conference conducted by the Transportation Research Board and the Federal Highway Administration, September 24-26, 1984.

p. 173-176

1984

Transportation Research Record

Bridge piers; Bridges; Deicers (Equipment); Deterioration; Driver rehabilitation; Reinforced concrete; Repairing; Shotcrete; Spalling

Deicers; Rehabilitation; Repairs

Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls

TRIS, TRB

Dec 30 1984 12:00AM

• A PRAGMATIC APPROACH IN RATING HIGHWAY BRIDGES
• A RATIONAL PROCEDURE FOR OVERWEIGHT PERMITS
• APPLICATION OF LOAD SPECTRA TO BRIDGE RATING
• BRIDGE WEIGHT-LIMIT POSTING PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES
• CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR BRIDGE MEASUREMENT
• COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF AASHTO PLATE GIRDERS IN PURE BENDING WITH LOAD-FACTOR DESIGN
• CONSTRUCTION OF POST-TENSIONED BRIDGES IN GERMANY
• COST-EFFECTIVE DECISION MODELS FOR MAINTENANCE, REHABILITATION, AND REPLACEMENT OF BRIDGES
• DESIGN PROVISIONS FOR DYNAMIC LOADING OF HIGHWAY BRIDGES
• DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND ERECTION OF A CURVED, PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE WITH CONTINUOUS GIRDERS
• ECONOMIC AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR SHORT-SPAN BRIDGE REPLACEMENT STRUCTURES
• EFFECT OF WATER INFILTRATION OF PENETRATING CRACKS ON DETERIORATION OF BRIDGE DECK SLABS
• EVALUATION OF SEVEN ALUMINUM HIGHWAY BRIDGES AFTER TWO TO THREE DECADES OF SERVICE
• FEASIBILITY OF COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING
• FINITE-ELEMENT LOAD DISTRIBUTION FACTORS FOR MULTI-T-BEAM BRIDGES
• FINITE-ELEMENT PROGRAM FOR ANALYSIS OF FOLDED-PLATE BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURES
• IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES REQUIRED FOR THE ASEISMIC DESIGN OF BRIDGES
• OVERLOADING OF PRESTRESSED-CONCRETE SPREAD BOX-BEAM BRIDGES
• OVERLOADING OF STEEL MULTIGIRDER BRIDGES
• PROTOTYPE PRESTRESSED WOOD BRIDGE
• REHABILITATION OF STEEL DECK GIRDER BRIDGES
• REHABILITATION OF STEEL TRUSS BRIDGES USING A SUPERIMPOSED ARCH SYSTEM
• RENOVATION OF THE THIRD AVENUE BRIDGE IN MINNEAPOLIS
• SCALE-MODEL TESTS FOR FULL-DEPTH PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL-DECKED COMPOSITE BRIDGE SPAN
• STRENGTHENING CALIFORNIA'S STEEL BRIDGES BY PRESTRESSING
• SUPERSTRUCTURE ENVELOPE GENERATION WITH CONVERSATION-MODE SOFTWARE
• TEST OF WELDING TECHNIQUE FOR REPAIR OF STEEL HIGHWAY BRIDGES
• THE ONTARIO BRIDGE CODE: SECOND EDITION
• THIN POLYMER CONCRETE OVERLAYS FOR BRIDGE DECK PROTECTION