RETROFITTING PARTS OF BRIDGES
BY: SANTOS, KRIZALYN S.
TYPES OF ABUTMENTS IN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION
Monolithic Bridge Abutment Seat Type Bridge Abutment
METHODS OF SEISMIC RETROFITTING OF BRIDGE
ABUTMENTS
Seat extenders and catchers
Use concrete, steel, or timber to fill the gap between back wall and end diaphragm of
bridge superstructure
L bracket on superstructure soffit
Shear Keys, Large CIDH Piles, Anchor Slabs, and Vertical Pipes
SEAT EXTENDERS AND CATCHERS FOR RETROFITTING OF
BRIDGE ABUTMENTS
Seat extenders are commonly constructed of concrete or steel brackets attached to
the existing face of abutments or caped beams in order to decline the possibility of
bridge girder unseating during earthquakes.
Details of Concrete Seat Extender Details of Steel Bracket Extender Seat Extender
SEAT EXTENDERS AND CATCHERS FOR RETROFITTING OF BRIDGE
ABUTMENTS
Catcher Provided for a Vulnerable Catcher Beam used for Steel Girder
Bearing
USE OF CONCRETE, STEEL OR TIMBER TO FILL THE GAP BETWEEN
BACKWALL AND END DIAPHRAGM OF BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE
Occasionally, considerably large gap is
present between backwall and end
diaphragm of the bridge. This could be a
weak point for the bridge during
earthquakes since the bridge column
needs to deflect crucially so as to
activate the back-fill soil.
Abutment Blocking
L BRACKET ON SUPERSTRUCTURE SOFFIT
It is the addition of L shaped steel to
the flanges of steel I-girder of a bridge.
The L shaped steel works like bumper
that transfer longitudinal reaction from
the superstructure to the abutment and
eventually to the soil.
Bracket at Bridge Abutment
WIDENING AND RETROFITTING OF TWO
HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Both the as-built bridges are composed by simply supported prestressed concrete
decks sustained by framed bents.
Widening and retrofitting of two bridges.
WIDENING AND RETROFITTING OF TWO
HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Retrofitting interventions leading to uniform dis-tribution of seismic forces are
designed to improve the whole seismic performance.
Retrofitting of bearing and restrainer system.
WIDENING AND RETROFITTING OF TWO
HIGHWAY BRIDGES
To reduce any detrimental effect of the sharp corners on the tensile strength of the
FRP, in the chosen solution the cor-ners are rounded and an elliptical-shaped external
cover surrounding the old rectangular cross-section is realized by using cement grout
FRP jacketing of rectangular columns
STRENGTHENING OF BRIDGE PIERS
The bearing system is composed by elas-tomeric pads, and seismic restrainers aimed
to avoid the deck unseating are provided for both transversal and longitudinal
directions
STRENGTHENING OF BRIDGE PIERS
The bearing system is composed by elas-tomeric In order to reduce the flexibility of the high
pads, and seismic restrainers aimed to avoid the piers and to improve the tensilebstrength
deck unseating are provided for both transversal resistance, the two T-shaped columns forming
and longitudinal directions each elevation are connected along the whole
height by filling the openings among the
transversal beams by reinforced concrete
casting
As-built Mulinaccia Viaduct.
Strengthening of pier elevation.
A SELECTIVE WEAKENING STRATEGY
FOR RETROFITTING A PIER-FOUNDATION
SYSTEMS
The widening and seismic retrofitting design of a highway bridge is presented.
Retrofitting of pier foundation system
BRIDGE SEISMIC PROTECTION BY USING
SHOCK TRANSMITTER DEVICES
The bridge in Figure 7.a is subdivided into three parts. The central one consist of a
framed structure composed by a continuous concrete box girder, having variable
height, monolithically connected to the central pier.
Bridge retrofitting by using shock transmitter devices
ABUTMENT RETROFITTING INTERVENTION
In particular, the vertical loads are still
sustained by the abutment, but, after the
demolition of the top part of the abutment
wall, an additional structure, formed by a
reinforced concrete plate sustained by a
system of piles, is built in order to sustain the
horizontal forces due to shock transmitter
devices.
