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      <title>Bridge Rail Design Procedures</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study will focus on adjusting bridge rail design procedures to conform with the recently revised crash testing guidelines, MASH. This study will attempt to develop a better method for using dynamic impact loads to design bridge rail and cantilever deck systems. The new procedures will eliminate the problems associated with the use of dynamic forces in quasi-static design methods that currently produce oversized bridge railings and excessive deck thicknesses when accurate peak dynamic loads are used in the existing design method.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:00:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Enhancement of National LRFD Codes for California Bridge Design: Hinge Curl Research</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This task is intended to provide resources needed to research multi-frame prestressed box girder structures that require hinges to allow expansion and contraction due to thermal effects. The construction of these hinges is complicated by the fact that prestressing causes time dependent deformation. In particular, the short cantilever side of the hinge tends to "curl" upward due to the effect of prestressing. This curl continues until load transfer is completed from the suspended side of the hinge (usually after false work is removed). This makes it difficult to set screed line elevations since it depends on the amount of curl as well as the time until load transfer. This issue has been addressed in Memo to Designers (MTD) 11-34. However, the equations and methodology used in this memo are unproven and easily misinterpreted. A proposed revision to this memo is recommended (and will be attached to the proposal).]]></description>
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