This week, Steve explains design purpose of precast concrete box culverts. He details load transfer including vertical load, earth and bearing pressure.
Month: February 2013
Design Engineer Video Blog 5 – Bridge Beam Design
This week, Steve explains different aspects which aid optimisation of pre-stressed bridge beam design such as high strength concrete, de-bonding and exposure class. He explains crack width checks effect on such design and where applies.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 4 – Concrete Bridge Beams
This week, Steve explains the design codes used by Shay Murtagh Precast in designing prestressed concrete bridge beams – Eurocodes and British Standard and related annexes.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 3 – Bridge Beam Design
In this weeks video, Steve explains the typical steps to bridge beam design involving structure definition, load and load effect, strand and links layout, stress and sheer limit checks.