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The 2005 - FHWA Conference
Integral Abutment and Jointless Bridges (IAJB 2005)
March 16-18, 2005
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Organized by:
Constructed Facilities Center
College of Engineering & Mineral Resources
West Virginia University
Conference sponsors:
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
West Virginia Department of Highways (WVDOH)
AGENDA
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
GENERAL SESSION
Moderator
Edward Wasserman - Tennessee Department of Transporation
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Vasant Mistry , Federal Highway Administration
Welcoming Remarks
Robert Healy, Maryland State Highway Administration
1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Speech
Malcolm Kerley, Virginia Department of Transportation
SESSION I
Current Practices with Design Guidelines and Foundation Design
Moderator
Edward Wasserman - Tennessee Department of Transportation
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
"Integral Abutment and Jointless Bridges"
Vasant Mistry , Federal Highway Administration
2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"Survey Results"
Samer Petro , Gannett Fleming, Inc.
3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
"The In-Service Behavior of Integral Abutment Bridges: Abutment-Pile Response"
Robert Frosch and Voraniti Chovichien, Purdue University
Michael Wenning , American Consulting, Inc.
3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
"New York State DOT’s Experience with Integral and Semi-Integral Abutments"
Arthur Yannotti, Sreenivas Alampalli and Harry White, New York State Department of Transportation
4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
"Integral Abutment Design and Construction: The New England Experience"
Darren Conboy and Eric Stoothoff, Edwards and Kelcey, Inc.
5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
"VDOT Integral Bridge Design Guidelines"
Keith Weakley , Virginia Department of Transportation
Thursday, March 17, 2005
SESSION II
Case Studies
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
"A Jointless Structure to Replace the Belt Parkway Bridge Over Ocean Parkway"
S. Jayakumaran, Syed Ashraf and Charles Norrish, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
"Beitrami County State Aid Highway 33 Over Mississippi River in Ten Lake Township, MN"
Jeffrey Wetmore , Edwards and Kelcey, Inc.
9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
"Design and Construction of Dual 630 ft. Jointless Three-Span Continuous Multi-Girder Bridges in St. Albans, WV carrying US 60 over the Coal River"
Keith Michael and John Perkin, SAI Consulting Engineers, Inc.
9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
"An Integral Abutment Bridge with an FRP Deck: A Case Study"
Vimala Shekas and Hota GangRao, West Virginia University
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
"New Mexico’s Practice and Experience in Using Continuous Spans for Jointless Bridges"
Jimmy Camp and Steven Maberry, New Mexico Department of Transportation
11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
"Integral Abutment Bridges - Iowa and Colorado Experience"
David Liu , Parsons
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
"Moose Creek Bridge - A Case Study on Prefabricated Integral Abutment Bridge in Canada"
Iqbal Hussain and Mike McCormick, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
John Low , Stantec Consulting, Ltd.
SESSION III
Maintenance and Rehabilitation
Moderator
Robert Healy - Maryland State Highway Administration
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
"Passive Load Tests on Full-Scale Rigid Bridge Abutment"
Alan Lutenegger , University of Massachusetts
Theodore Thomson , Duffield Associates
1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
"Field Data and FEM Modeling of the Orange-Wendell Bridge - Structural and Geotechnical Considerations"
Daniel Crovo , Massachusetts Highway Department
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 pm.
"Effects of Restraint Moments In Integral Abutment Bridges"
M. Arockiasamy and M. Sivakumar, Florida Atlantic University
2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"Full-Scale Testing of an Integral Abutment Bridge"
Sophia Hassiotis , Stevens Institute of Technology
Jose Lopez , New Jersey Department of Transporation
Ricardo Bermudez , Sensing Systems Corp.
3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
"Analysis and Design of Integral Abutment by LRFD Method"
Yong Deng, Joe Farre, Jamie Chang and Percy Penefiel, PBS&J
4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
"Behavior of Pile Supported Integral Abutments"
Edwin Burdette, Samuel Howard, Earl Ingram, J. Harold Deatherage and David Goodpasture, University of Tennessee
4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
"Field Testing of Concrete Deck-Steel Stringer Jointless Bridges"
Hota GangRao , West Virginia University
Samer Petro , Gannett Fleming, Inc.
Jason Franco
5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
"Behavior of Two-Span Integral Bridges Unsymmetrical about the Pier Line"
David Knickerbocker , Hardesty & Hanover, LLC
Prodyot Basu , Vanderbilt University
Edward Wasserman , Tennessee Department of Transportation
Friday, March 18, 2005
SESSION IV
Construction Practices
Moderator
Jimmy Camp - New Mexico Department of Transportation
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
"Integral Backwall with Elastic Inclusion - Field Study"
Edward Hoppe , Virginia Transportation Research Council
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
"Plastic Design of Steel HP-Piles for Integral Abutment Bridges"
Preston Huckabee , Gill Engineering Associates, Inc.
9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
"Integral Abutment Bridges: Their Geotechnical Problems and Solutions Using Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement"
John Horvath , Manhattan College
9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
"P-y Curves from Pressuremeter Tests at Kings Creek Bridge, WV Route 2, Hancock County, WV"
Walter Kutschke and Braulio Grajales, URS Corporation
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
"Effective Temperature, Longitudinal and Transverse Movement in Integral Abutment Bridges"
Ralph Oesterle and Hamid Lotfi, CTL, Inc.
Jeffery Voltz , Pennsylvania State University
SESSION V
Summary and Panel Discussion
Moderator
Hoto GangRao - West Virginia University
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Conference Summary
Hoto GangRao , West Virginia University
Panel Discussion:
Jimmy Camp, New Mexico Department of Transportation
Jerry DiMaggio , Federal Highway Administration
Robert Healy, Maryland State Highway Administration
Malcolm Kerley, Virginia Department of Transporation
Jim Shook/Gregory Bailey, West Virginia University
Edward Wasserman , Tennessee Department of Transportation
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