Long-Term Bridge Performance Program

Final TRB Agenda

Thursday, January 14, 2010

8 a.m.–12 noon

Marriot, Thurgood Marshall North

Status of FHWA's Long-Term Bridge Performance Program

Dr. Hamid Ghasemi, Federal Highway Administration, presiding

Sponsored by Committee on Structures Maintenance

The goal of FHWA’s 20-year Long Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) research program is to develop a better understanding of how highway bridges perform under a variety of service conditions. This workshop presents an update on the program goals, priorities, main features and current status. The ongoing pilot phase of the program will be described with information on the regimen of visual inspection, nondestructive testing, sampling (such as deck cores), instrumentation, modeling, load testing and monitoring. The findings and conclusions of the pilot study will help direct future program activities. The long term data collection phase and the process of selecting LTBP bridges will also be presented.

 

Long Term Bridge Performance Program, Part 1

 

Opening Remarks (P10-1551)

 

LTBPP Accomplishments (P10-1552)

 

LTBPP–Research Approach (P10-0254)

 

LTBPP–Research Priorities (P10-1553)

 

LTBPP–Research Priorities (P10-1553)

 

LTBPP Pilot Study Phase (P10-0255)

 

Visual Inspection of the LTBPP Pilot Bridges (P10-0257)

 

Pilot Bridge Preliminary Deck Surveys (P10-0260)

 

Question and Answer Session

 

LTBPP Bridge Assessment Decisions Tool (P10-1546) Benoit Kroely, Advitam Alexandre Chaperon, Advitam

 

Pilot Bridge Live Load Dynamic Testing and Long Term Monitoring (P10-0259)

 

LTBPP Data Infrastructure Managing Diverse Data Types (P10-0261)

 

Integrated Asset Management (P10-1554)

 

Proposed Methodology for Bridge Sampling (P10-1555)

 

LTBPP–Moving Forward (P10-0262)

 

Panel Discussion (P10-0996)