Live Loads
Traffic Live Loads,
The live loads are in accordance with IRC: 6-2017. For bridges classified under IRC:6, Cl. 201.1, the traffic
loading consists, as specified in Cl. 204.1, of the following design vehicles: Each carriageway will be loaded
with Class-A & Class 70R loadings with the following combinations:
Table 3.6- Live load combinations for different load case
Number of
Lanes for
Sl.No. | Carriageway Width (CW) Load Combination
Design
Purposes
‘One Tané of class A Ts considered to occupy
1 Less than 5.3 1 23m, the remaining cariageway will be
loaded with 500kgim2
5.3 and above but less than
2 ‘a 2 One lane of TOR or two lanes of Class A
One Tane of 7OR for every two lanes with
9.6 and above but less than
3 54 3 ne lane of Class A on the remaining lanes
cr lanes of class A
g | Bt mand above butless ij
han 1
than 16.6 m One lane of Clase 70R for every two lanes
5 | Be mand above butless ; vith one lane of Class A for the remaining
than 20.1 lanes, if any, OR one lane of Class A for
‘ 20.1 mand above but less @ secuene.
than 23.6