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This section contains requirements and For new structures, the analysis shall be based
guidelines to be followed when rating the on the design plans, assuring that all the changes
followings: in the final approved plans have been
incorporated in the rating analysis and report.
New Structure
Existing Structure The existing structures shall be analyzed based
Rehabilitated Structure on the original design plans and actual field
conditions .
The bridge rating results and reports shall be
submitted to the responsible ODOT District Structures with major rehabilitation should be
office. analyzed using the original design plans, actual
field conditions, and rehabilitation plans,
AASHTO BARS-PC (BARS-PC) computer incorporating all the major changes during
program shall be used to rate the bridges. original construction and in the final approved
plans, if any.
The BARS-PC programs input and output are
based on English units. The metric dimensions
need to be converted in English units for input
to the program.
902.2 SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR
BARS-PC program installation disks and User RATING
Manuals are available from the Office of
Structural Engineering, Structural Rating All main structural members affected by live
Engineer, for use on ODOT projects. For system load shall be analyzed.
requirements and capabilities of the BARS-PC
program, refer to Section 903 and the BARS-PC All members shall have actual net section and
User Manuals. current conditions incorporated into the
members analysis. Any known section losses,
defects or damage to the existing structural
902 REQU I R E MENTS FOR members shall be considered in the rating
analysis, accordingly.
BRIDGE RATING
The members shall be analyzed as to the
902.1 GENERAL intended method of construction. Structural
members constructed as non-composite should
For new, existing and rehabilitated structures,
be analyzed as non-composite and so on.
the designer will analyze and rate the entire
super-structure including main spans and
All dead loads are to be calculated as per actual
approach or ramp spans, if any, designed to
field conditions and shall be used in the
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structural analysis. Future dead loads shall not Live Load Figure Analysis*
be applied, unless directed otherwise in the Designation
scope of services.
1 MS18 SEE I&O
AASHTO live load distribution factors shall be (HS20-44) AASHTO
used for analysis. & Alternate
Military
All analysis shall be performed using Load Loading
Factor (Strength) Design Method. The load
factors as defined in AASHTO shall be applied. 2 2S1 Fig. 901 O
Fig. 902
Working Stress Method can be used for those 3 3S1 Fig. 901 O
members that can not be analyzed by Load Fig. 902
Factor (Strength) method in BARS-PC.
4 4S1 Fig. 901 O
The analysis shall be performed for AASHTO Fig. 902
MS18 (HS20-44) Loading, an Alternate Military
5 5C1 Fig. 901 O
Loading and the four Ohio Legal Loads (2S1,
Fig. 902
3S1, 4S1, and 5C1) for both Inventory and
Operating conditions according to Table 9-1.
* I = Inventory Rating Analysis
The analysis for special or superload vehicle, if O = Operating Rating Analysis
required in the scope, shall be performed for
Operating condition only.
Refer to ODOT Procedure No.: 518-001 (P), 902.3 REQUIREMENTS FOR BRIDGE
Rating of Bridges and Posting for Reduced RATING - FATIGUE ANALYSIS
Load Limits, for rating procedures.
If a fatigue analysis is required in the scope, the
All vehicles used for analysis shall have analysis shall be performed in accordance with
transverse spacing between centerline of wheels, AASHTO (see Section 905, References).
or wheel groups, of 1830 mm (6 ft.).
The fatigue analysis calculations and resulting
ratings shall be presented in the final report.
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AASHTO BARS-PC can analyze and rate the The following are computer equipment
following type of bridge members (Table 9-3): requirements to run BARS-PC:
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386 - 12 MHz with math co-processor The responsible District Office will review,
6 MB RAM approve and send a copy of the final Bridge
60MB disk drive (uncompressed) Rating Report to the Office of Structural
3.5" high density diskette drive Engineering, attention: Structure Rating
EGA display adapter Engineer.
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The report must list final Inventory and
Optimum configuration Operating Ratings of each critical bridge
member, overall ratings of each structure unit
Pentium or compatible CPU (mainline, ramps, etc.), and the final ratings of
32 MB RAM the entire structure. The ratings of each member
150 MB free space on hard drive and the structure shall be presented for each live
(uncompressed) load vehicle according to Table 9-1.
3.5" disk drive
VGA or SVGA display adapter The Inventory Ratings shall be expressed in
mouse terms of the AASHTO-HS loading (English
Units), rounded off to nearest single decimal
Software Requirements (any of the following) point, not to be listed more than HS20.0,
(HS18.5, HS10.6, etc.).
Windows 3.11 (MS-DOS 5.0 or higher)
Windows 95 The Operating Ratings for MS18 (HS20-44)
Windows 98 Loading shall be expressed in terms of HS
Windows NT 3.51 and higher (English Units) loading, rounded off to nearest
single decimal point, not to be listed more than
HS25.0 (HS20.8, HS 23.2, etc.).
904 FINAL REPORT The original design method and loading, used
SUBMITTAL for the design of the bridge and/or specific
members (if different for different members or
904.1 GENERAL units) shall be explicitly stated in the report.
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905 REFERENCES
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