3.6.12 Design Vebieular Live Load 36121 Gonoral ‘Vehicular ive loading on the roadways of bidgesor ‘incidental structures, designated HL-93, hl consist ofa combination of the: ‘+ Design tuck or design tandem, and ‘+ Design lane load, e612 Consideration should be given to. stespecifie rmodifeations tothe design ruck, design tandem, andor ‘he desig lake load under the folowing eandons ‘© The Tegal load of a given juistition is significantly greater than (pial, The roadway is expected to camry unusually igh peteentages of tack ‘+ Flow cont, such as tp sign trafic sia, ‘orto booth, causes tracks to cll on erin lareas ofa bridge of ot be interrupted by light vali oF ‘+ Speval industrial loads ae common du tthe location ae bride ‘See ule dteustion in Aisle C36.1.3.1. ‘The lve lad model, consisting of eer a truck ‘andes coincident wath a uniformly dseibuted oad, as ‘eveloped a 2 notonal represemion of shear 2nd ‘momient prodced by a group of vehicles rowiely permined™ en highways of various tutes under “gander” exclusions to weight ls, Te vehicles considered to be representative of thse exclusions were ‘paced on a study conducted by the Transporation Research Board (Cohen 1990), The load mee i called “novonal” byeaute ii not intended to represent ay prricalr rock3.6.1.2.2 Design Truck ‘The Weights and spacings of axles and wheels for the design truck shall be as specified in Figure 1. A dynamic load allowance shall be considered as specified in Article 3.6.2. Except as specified in Articles 3.6.1.3.1 and 3.6.1.4.1, the spacing between the two 145 O00-N axles shall be varied between 4300 and 9000 mm to produce extreme force effects. yah Ara Anson ef inn and Tapesn Obit semen con overoccen rsemorngpnoedset ese eS Netebenae cnrStcton3 (1): Lous aw Lown Factons 350008 145 000N _148000N [900mm 4900 to 90000 ¢00mm General—_——”"i90,n ‘300mm Deck Overnang “omm Design Lane 3600 mm Figure 3.61 2.24 Characteristics ofthe Design Truck. 36112.3 Deslgn Taom ‘The design tandern shall consist oa pair of110000-N antes spaced 1200 mm apa. The wansvese spacing of Whee shall be taken as 1800 ‘mm. A dynamic load allowance salle conseredasspecifiedin Amicle 3.6.2 36.124 Design Lane Load ‘The design lane load shall consist of a load of 93 Nima Uniformly distributed inthe longitudinal direction, Transverse, the design lane lad shal be assumed to be uniformly distbued over a 3000-mam width. The force effects from he design lane load shall nt be subject to 8 dynamic load allowance ication of Design Vehicular Live 3.6.1.3) General Unless otherwise specified, the extreme force effect shall be taken a the Inger of the folowing! 4 The effect of the design tandem combined with the effect of the design Lane load, or 4+ The effect of one design truck with the variable axle spacing specified in Article 36.12.2, combined with the effect ofthe design lane load, and 36.131 “The effects of an axle sequence and the lane load ace superposed in order to obvain extreme values. This is a eviation fom the tractional AASHTO approsch, in ‘which either the ruck or the lane ld, than additional concentrated nad, provided for extreme eects ‘The lane load isnt interrupted to provide space for the axle sequences of the design tandem or the design truck; interruption is needed only for patch leading pattems to produce extreme force effects. a3