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In Existing Bridges: Widening, Rehabilitation and Replacement, you'll learn ...
- Benefits and challenges with widenings, rehabilitation and replacements of existing bridges
- Considerations for bridge widenings and replacements during design phase
- Bridge rehabilitation and applications to various bridge elements
- Different superstructure types used with bridge widenings
Overview
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Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 25 pages
Bridges are vital to our everyday lives. They help make our travel smoother by reducing commute time and connecting different cities throughout the country. While bridges help facilitate our transportation needs, they often become outdated, resulting in higher congestion and accident rates.
Each year, more bridges continue to deteriorate, however, the funding available to address these bridges is limited. Finding solutions that are cost-effective and practical while being able to address future traffic demands has become a priority for engineers and transportation agencies.
This course provides an overview of three options to consider with existing bridges: rehabilitation, bridge widenings and bridge replacements. For each alternative, the course will examine the benefits and possible challenges, providing real-world examples of bridges currently in service. Additional specific topics, such as sequence of construction, retrofits against natural disasters and superstructure types will also be discussed. After completing this course, the student will be able to understand and recognize ways to help improve our bridge infrastructure.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Factors and design considerations with existing bridges
- Sequence of construction of a bridge widening
- Common bridge rehabilitation methods
- Real world case studies of bridges in service
- Applications of Accelerated Bridge Construction
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
| This course is applicable to professional engineers in: | ||
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 25 pages
