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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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