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In In Bridges: Types, Components, Deterioration, Failures, & Preventing Future Failures, you'll learn ...
- The seven basic types of bridges that represent a majority of the highway, railroad, and pedestrian bridges in North America, and around the world
- The three primary components of a bridge structure and their subcomponents which all are subject to elements of deterioration and potential failure
- Elements of deterioration in steel bridges and RC (reinforced concrete) bridges
- Failure mechanisms and lessons learned from seven North American bridge failure case studies
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 20 pages
This course examines bridge failures and structural deterioration for the purpose of understanding the elements that cause deterioration in bridge structures and the factors that lead to structural failures. There are a number of elements that cause the material in bridge structural components to degrade and deteriorate over time, in both steel and RC (reinforced concrete) bridges.
The two dominant elements causing deterioration are deicing chemicals (chlorides) and vehicle overloading. These two elements affect all types of bridges and their components. In extreme cases, extensive deterioration potentially leads to structural failure. Of the bridge failures presented in this course, each failure has one or more of these factors which contributed to the bridge collapsing.
The objective of this course is to help licensed professional and forensic structural engineers to deeply understand bridge failures and structural deterioration to understand the elements that cause deterioration in bridge structures and the factors that lead to structural failures.
The seven bridge failure cases presented in this course highlight a variety of causes that led to structural failures. In each of the seven failures, there are valuable lessons to be learned. These lessons should be used by designers to build stronger and better bridges with longer service lives.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Basic types of bridges represent a majority of the highway, railroad, and pedestrian bridges
- Primary components of a bridge structure
- Elements of deterioration on concrete bridges
- Elements of deterioration in steel bridges
- How and why bridge failures occur and how to apply the lessons learned in failures to design and build better bridges, of all types, that will not fail.
- Preventing future bridge failures: inspection and maintenance
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 14 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 20 pages
