BRIDGE CONCEPT

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Classify bridges according to statically structural system. Draw figures.

2. Compare a railway bridge ballast deck and a railway bridge deck that has sleepers placed
directly on the main girders. Advantages, disadvantages, and applications? Draw
illustrating figures.
3. Compare the wearing surfaces (of highway bridge decks) using asphalt concrete and
cement concrete. Draw figures.
4. How to determine dimensions of an abutment wing wall. What is it structural diagram
(model) for calculating internal forces? What are the possible loads acting on the wing
wall? Show the reinforcement arrangement in the wing wall. Draw figures.
5. How to determine the elevation of bottom of a bridge girder?
6. Illustrate the constitution of steel laminated elastomeric bearings (rubber-steel plate) and
principles of working mechanism? Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of this
bearing type. Draw figures.
7. Present an integral bridge with slender, flexible piers and abutments. Advantages,
disadvantages, and applications of flexible piers and abutments? Draw figures.
8. Present design water levels: highest, lowest, and navigational water levels. What are their
roles and how can they be determined?
9. Present the limit states according to the 22TCN 272-05 Standard (or TCVN 11823-2017)
and explain their meanings.
10. Present the resistance properties of an abutment and a pier of an arch bridge. Draw
figures.
11. Present the structure and components of a U-shaped reinforced concrete abutment. List
the possible loads acting on the abutment. Show the reinforcement arrangement in the
body wall. Draw figures.
12. Present the structure, advantages, drawbacks, and applications of a girder bridge with a
“thermally continuous” deck slab. Draw figures.
13. Present types of parapets used in highway, pedestrian bridges and bridges that have stiff
separators.
14. Solutions for draining off the surface water on bridge decks (longitudinal and transverse
slopes, and drain pipes). Draw illustrating figures.
15. What are the differences between a fixed pot bearing and a movable pot bearing?
Principles of such bearing operation? Advantages, disadvantages, and applications? Draw
figures.
16. What are the possible loads acting on a solid bridge pier? Which cross sections of the pier
needs to be checked? Draw figures.
17. What are the purposes and requirements of expansion joints? Compare a sliding steel
plate expansion joint and a rubber expansion joint? Draw figures.
18. What is the basis for choosing bridge bearings? How to arrange bearings in simply
supported and continuous girder bridges (show the elevation and plan views).