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Standard Number

AASHTO HDG CHAPTER 7:2007
Năm ban hành 2007

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Tình trạng A - Còn hiệu lực

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Title in English

HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS FOR THE LOCATION AND DESIGN OF BRIDGES
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AASHTO HDG VOL VII:1999
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Page

103
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INTRODUCTION: Bridges serve a variety of highway purposes
including the elimination of conflicts with traffic and other modes
of transportation, such as rail, marine, air, and pedestrian.
Bridges enable watercourses to maintain the natural function of
flow conveyance and sustain aquatic life. Bridges are also
important and expensive highway-hydraulic structures and are
vulnerable to failure from flood-related causes. To minimize the
risk of failure, the hydraulic requirements of stream crossings
must be recognized and considered in all phases of highway
development, construction, and maintenance.

Features that are important to the hydraulic performance of a
bridge include the approach fill alignment, skew, and profile;
bridge location, skew, and length; span lengths; bent and pier
location and design; and foundation and superstructure
configuration and elevations. These features of a highway-stream
crossing are usually the responsibility of location, design, and
bridge engineers; however, the integrity and safety of the facility
are often as dependent upon competent hydraulic design as on
competent structural and geometric design.

In this chapter, the hydraulic engineering aspects of bridged
stream crossings are discussed, proceeding from hydraulic
considerations in planning and location through studies necessary
for design and construction to hydraulic considerations in
maintenance and operation. Tidal areas, such as bays and estuaries,
are not discussed in detail although much of the discussion is
applicable to these areas. Another chapter will discuss tidal
hydraulics.

Structures measuring more than 6.1 m (20 ft) along the roadway
centerline are conventionally classified as bridges. However,
structures designed hydraulically as bridges are treated in this
chapter, regardless of length. Discussion of the hydraulics of
bridges will include consideration of the total crossing, including
approach embankments and structures on the floodplains.