Design of Prestressed Bridges acc.

to AASHTO LRFD

Application of Live Load

• The Design Live Load HL93

consists of a design truck
or design tandem applied
simultaneously with a
design lane load,
whichever gives the larger
effect on the bridge.

• For negative moment

between inflection
points,90% of the effect of
two design
d i trucks k spacedd
at minimum of 15000 mm
combined with 90% of the
design lane load.

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Design of Prestressed Bridges acc. to AASHTO LRFD

Application of Live Load

• Design Truck, Design Tandem and Design Lane loads are applied
over a 3.0-m width, within the 3.6-m lane width.

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Design of Prestressed Bridges acc. to AASHTO LRFD

Application of Live Load

• The extreme live load

effect shall consider a
number of transversely
loaded lanes multiplied by
a multiple presence factor
to account for the
probability of
simultaneous lane
occupation by the full
HL-93 design live load.

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