A Civil Engineering Project Manuscript Presented To The Faculty of
A Civil Engineering Project Manuscript Presented To The Faculty of
A Civil Engineering Project Manuscript Presented To The Faculty of
MAY 2022
ABSTRACT
A typical prestressed concrete bridge was proposed to be built in Liberty Pula –
Bato – Palo – Danlag Road, Tampakan, South Cotabato as a connecting bridge for two
barangays in the area, with two lanes for design. This is supposed to build the most cost-
effective bridge that can survive the existing river situation to provide more accessible
roadways to all inhabitants within the area of responsibility and address the current
overflow issue. As the standard basis for civil engineers in the Philippines, the standards
Recommendations were also specified for future purposes on young civil engineering
completed according to the study. This was with the help of supervision and available
data and sources, this study was done according to the scope of this study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER II
METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
infrastructure, particularly in rivers where migration rates are high, as in the tropics. In the
Philippines, where exposure to flooding and geomorphic risk is considerable, the recent
is essential to have link structures like bridges. After a disaster like an earthquake, bridges
must be maintained to give way for an effective rescue operation and transporting of relief
goods to the affected area. Most of the bridges in the Philippines were built on designs
using the old code, which is based on the traditional approach, the Force-Based Design
Method.
connecting bridge for a two barangay in that vicinity, two lanes for design are minimal.
This is supposed to design the most economic bridge that can withstand the current
situation of the river to give a much more accessible road to all residents within the area
of responsibility and to solve the overflow-related issue in the current location. Standards
and data to be used will be based on the NSCP 2015 as the standard basis for civil
Bridges are essential for all aspects of the trade and transport industry. It plays an
important role in connectivity between two areas in a relevant manner. To give accessible
and feasible service son the society within. This proposal tends to answer the following
questions:
1. Can a Pre-stressed Concrete Bridge sustain the volume of water to prevent flood?
2. Can this proposed project answer the overflow problem of the current bridge?
The main objectives of this project proposal are to analyze and design the bridge
based on NSCP 2015 as the standard in the Philippines. In addition, this project proposal
The main objective of this study are to propose a “Pre-stressed Concrete Bridge at
bridges and how to apply the vital concepts of structure to the design. The Institution of
Engineering conducts this kind of academic paper to ensure the knowledge of every Civil
Civil Engineering Instructor – the outcome of the study will give them a different
the concepts of the projects. Also, it may be used as a lecture reference for the
Civil Engineering Students – the data and concepts in this paper will enable them to
engineer of this time, a detailed study equipped with reliable sources is necessary
For the Institution – the result and recommendation of this study will be assisted by the
school program heads and dean as a part of the curriculum. They can also make
a meaningful review and assessment of the study to verify the validity of the data.
The school may use this study to prepare the civil engineering students for the
Future Researcher- This paper can be used as a basis for future studies on engineering
especially on designing a bridge. The data and results presented are valid and
trusted. This study will also serve as a cross-reference for them to visualize the
The scope of this project will focus only on Tampakan, especially on Barangay
Scope
Limitations
Since being pioneered in France in 1986, pre-stressed concrete girder bridges with
corrugated steel webs have emerged as one of the most promising forms of steel-
type of bridge have been carried out since the 1970s. This paper presents a
Chinese, and Japanese. The review is organized into topics covering the major
characteristics of structural behavior, including the flexural, shear, and torsional behavior
of this type of bridge, shear buckling of corrugated steel webs, dynamic and seismic
behavior, etc. Some suggestions are put forward for future research on this promising
(LSPCBB) is getting more and more serious in terms of structure safety. And there are
still many ambiguous reasons as to the cause of the deflection of LSPCBB. In respect of
the causes of long-term deflection, domestic and aboard research literatures on the
deflection problem of LSPCBB are reviewed and analyzed from the aspects of concrete
creep and shrinkage, pre-stress effect, box-girder cracking, calculation and retrofit
methods. Not only are the cause mechanism and research difficulties of the deflection
explained, but also the suggestions about further research of long-term deflection control
members and the foundation require special attention to ensure good seismic
performance. Extensive research conducted since the 1980s has led to new precast
concrete structural systems, designs, details, and techniques that are particularly suited
for use in regions of high seismic hazard. This paper reviews the state of the art of these
different systems: (1) moment frames; (2) structural walls; (3) floor diaphragms; and (4)
bridges. It is concluded from this review that the widespread use of precast concrete in
seismic regions is feasible today and that the jointed connection innovation introduced
through precast research leads to improved seismic performance of building and bridge
structures.
Establishing a bridge foundation when there is a top layer of weak soils normally
concrete piles (PPCP) is one of the options among various types of piles and installation
methods. However, it often happens that shipping and transportation constraints limit the
length of precast pre-stressed pile segments that can be delivered to the bridge site.
Therefore, the length of pile segments may be smaller than the length required to
establish adequate resistance, and splicing of pile segments becomes necessary. The
review reported in this paper aims at identifying and analyzing the available splice
systems to be able to build upon the existing experiences when considering the
development of new alternatives. The existing splice systems were compared based on
investigation was also conducted on the existing filler or bonding materials used for PPCP
splicing to help the selection of the most applicable material. The review identified a set
of filler/bonding material with rapid strength gain, workability and setting time suitable for
establishing splices. This research was deemed necessary since there has been little or
no recent innovation related to the PPCP splices. This paper combines in one place all
available information on this subject and will help the researchers to understand the
existing systems as well as the types of materials used for splicing. The results of this
study are expected to motivate new ideas on more effective, durable, and economic
bridges for short-span bridges ranging from approximately 30–50 ft in length. These
bridges have precast, pre-tensioned slab beams placed immediately adjacent to one
another with a cast-in-place slab made composite with the beams. While these bridges
are used extensively, they are more expensive than traditional pre-stressed I-beam
structures on a per-square-foot basis. The objective of this project was to investigate the
use of slab beams that are spread apart with precast panel stay-in-place forms between
beams and a cast-in-place concrete deck, and to develop appropriate design guidelines
for this alternate spread slab beam bridge system. The project objectives were met
through a series of tasks. The research team reviewed the relevant literature and the
current state of the practice. Preliminary designs were developed to assess the potential
of a spread slab beam bridge system. A full-scale spread slab beam bridge was
constructed at the Texas A&M University Riverside Campus and tested to assess
constructability, in-service performance, and behavior. Field testing was conducted for
the Riverside Bridge and a US 69 on-system bridge to evaluate load distribution behavior
and to provide data to guide analytical modeling of this bridge system. Additional
and load sharing behavior. Based on these models, recommendations were developed
for load distribution factor relationships for the design of spread slab beam bridges.
Pre-stressing methods were used to realize long-span bridges in the last few
procedures for identifying pre-stress losses were mainly developed since serviceability
and safety of Pre-stressed Concrete (PC) girders depend on the effective state of pre-
stressing. In fact, substantial long term pre-stress losses can induce excessive deflections
and cracking in large span PC bridge girders. However, old unsolved problematic as well
as new challenges exist since a variation in pre-stress force does not significantly affect
the vibration responses of such PC girders. As a result, this makes uncertain the use of
preliminary proved to be a reliable method with the goal to become a dominant approach
in the near future. In fact, measured vertical deflections take accurately and
instantaneously into account the changes of structural geometry of PC girders due to pre-
stressing losses on the equilibrium conditions, in turn caused by the combined effects of
tendon relaxation, concrete creep and shrinkage, and parameters of real environment as,
e.g., temperature and relative humidity. Given the current state of quantitative and
places, while concluding remarks including future studies and field developments are
Precast concrete bridge deck panels are commonly used for bridge constructions
because they enable faster construction and have less impact on traffic flow. The quality
precast concrete panels should be inspected before they are shipped to construction sites
for installation. However, current quality inspection of precast concrete elements mainly
are usually stored in paper sheets or Excel spreadsheets, making it difficult to visualize
and manage the as-built dimensions. This study develops a technique to automatically
estimate the dimensions of precast concrete bridge deck panels and create as-built
building information modeling (BIM) models to store the real dimensions of the panels.
First, the proposed technique conducts scan planning to find the optimal scanner
locations for scan data acquisition. Then, the scan data of the target panel are acquired
and pre-processed to remove noise data and to register multiple scans in a global
coordinate system. From the registered scan data, the as-built geometries of the target
panel are estimated. In the last step, an as-built BIM model is created based on the
specimen and a full-scale precast concrete bridge deck panel. Experimental results show
that the proposed technique can accurately and efficiently estimate the dimensions of full-
scale precast concrete bridge deck panels with an accuracy of 3 mm and automatically
Precast concrete bridge decks have been adopted in the construction of bridges
bridge decks offer the following three advantages (Hieber et al. 2005). First, the quality of
precast bridge decks is superior because they are produced in a controlled plant
environment, which has consistent casting operations and curing processes. Second,
precast bridge decks can reduce construction time by 50% to 75%, thereby reducing the
impact on the traffic flow and the safety hazards to workers. Third, although precast bridge
decks have higher initial costs, the life-cycle costs considering road users and traffic
maintenance costs are significantly below those of CIP decks. A typical precast bridge
deck consists of a series of precast bridge deck panels. The short sides of bridge deck
panels are parallel with the traffic flow, also known as the longitudinal side surfaces. On
the other hand, the long sides of bridge deck panels are known as transverse side
surfaces. Post-tension cables pass through the flat ducts, and the connected panels are
subjected to compression when tension is applied to the cables via hydraulic jacking
the dimensional quality of individual precast concrete panels, especially the structural
features, must be inspected before the panels are transported to construction sites for
control check list for precast concrete bridge units, as shown in Table 1 (Gutt et al. 2000).
The tolerance values used in the quality control check list mostly vary from 6 mm to 13
mm. Current quality inspection of precast concrete panels mainly relies on manual
inspection using traditional measurement tools. Such manual inspection was proven to
be subjective and unreliable. According to Phares et al. (2004), 32% of the bridge
component condition ratings performed by manual inspection varied for at least two rating
for large size structures. For example, according to Wang et al. (2017), it took around 40
precast concrete panel, resulting in increased labor cost. Although electronic survey
devices such as total stations and laser range finders (Suo et al. 2014; Koo et al. 2013)
can provide faster and more accurate dimension measurements, it is still time-consuming
panels in paper sheets or Excel spreadsheets, making it difficult to visualize and manage
the actual dimensions of the panels. In the recent decades, 3D laser scanning and
building information modeling (BIM) are adopted in the construction industry. 3D laser
scanning can acquire 3D range measurement data with high accuracy and a high speed,
other hand, BIM, as a technology for the storage, visualization and management of facility
information, has been used throughout the lifecycle of buildings and civil infrastructures.
Research efforts have been also made on automatic creation of as-built BIM from 3D
laser scan data of facilities (Brilakis et al. 2010; Pu and Vosselman 2009; Tang et al.
2010b; Xiong et al. 2013; Arayici 2007). The authors' research group has previously
developed techniques for dimension estimations of precast concrete panels using laser
scan data (Kim et al. 2014a; Wang et al. 2016a; Kim et al. 2016). However, the previous
techniques have the following limitations. First, only one surface of the target panel is
scanned from a single scanner location for dimension estimation. Cases with multiple
surfaces and multiple scanner locations are not taken into consideration. Second, a prior
as-designed BIM of the panel is required to extract the as-built dimensions of structural
features from laser scan data. This dependency on the prior as-designed BIM limits the
applicability of the previous techniques when the as-designed BIM is not available. Third,
the as-built dimensions of the panel are not automatically transferred to BIM, making it
difficult to visualize and manage the actual dimensions of the panel. To overcome the
technique for precast concrete bridge deck panels. The developed technique aims to
estimate the as-built dimensions of bridge deck panels and to automatically create an as-
built BIM from the estimated dimensions. The proposed technique first conducts scan
planning to determine the optimal scanner locations that can acquire scan data with the
minimum number of scanner locations, while fulfilling certain criteria. Then, the target
panel is scanned from the selected optimal scanner locations, and the obtained scan data
are pre-processed for noise removal and registration of multiple scans. Next, the as-built
geometries of the target panel are extracted from the registered laser scan data.
Particularly, the proposed technique can automatically extract certain structural features
based only on the as-designed dimensions of the corresponding features, but without the
as-designed BIM model of the entire structure. Finally, an as-built BIM model is
automatically created based on the estimated dimensions of the target panel. The
uniqueness of the proposed technique includes (1) the development of a scan planning
and (3) the development of an automatic algorithm for creating an as-built BIM model of
of building cladding. Precast concrete sandwich panels are a specific type of precast
is sandwiched between two concrete wythe’s and fixed together with mechanical
connectors. Hence, they have the potential to offer a thermally efficient cladding solution
Due to this thermal efficiency potential, and the resurgent popularity of precast concrete
generally, considerable innovation in sandwich panel design has occurred in recent years.
New high-performance concrete, with novel means of reinforcement, have enabled lighter
and thinner concrete wythes. Numerous new fiber reinforced polymer connectors have
been developed and tested that facilitate shear load transfer across the layers while also
allow for remarkably low U-values for thin wall build-ups. All these innovations are
increasing the applicability of sandwich panels for a wider range of building typologies
METHODOLOGY
For the design of project Proposal Bridge, the preliminary data needed was
• Rock or other hard in-erodible strata close to the river bed level.
In the selection of site, care should be taken to investigate some probable alternative
sites and then decide on the site which is likely to serve the needs of the bridges at the
least cost.
2.3 Geotechnical Investigation
Geotechnical investigation is one of the major parts of the project work for the
design of the proposed Pre-stressed Concrete Bridge at Liberty Pula – Bato – Palo –
Danlag Road. Geotechnical investigation works include test pitting and visual
investigation at the site. For our project, this was not quite possible. Thus, the
geotechnical data were adopted suitable for our locality and as per the similar works done
in the region. However, this will carry out the sieve analysis of the bed soil, finding out its
A topographical survey was carried out for a detailed engineering survey of the
proposed bridge site. Total station, reflector, and measuring tape were usually used for a
detailed survey. The bridge site detailing area covers a suitable region along the length
of the river both upstream and downstream. It also covers left and right banks along the
A. Scour Depth
Scour of stream bed occurs during the passage of a flood discharge when the
velocity of the stream exceeds the limiting velocity that can be withstood by the particles
of the bed material. The scour depth should be measured concerning existing structures
near the proposed bridge site if this is possible. Due allowance should be made in the
observed value for additional scour that may occur due to the designed discharge being
greater than the flood discharge for which the scour was observed, and also due to
increased velocity due to obstruction to flow caused by the construction of the bridge.
The Hydrological data was acquired from the secondary sources and the
calculation of maximum discharge of the river was calculated using the following method:
A rational formula for flood discharge should take into account the intensity,
distribution, and duration of rainfall as well as the area, shape, slope, permeability, and
initial wetness of the catchment (drainage basin). The area of the catchment is a major
contributing factor to the runoff. The shape of the catchment affects the peak discharge,
with long and narrow basins yielding less than pear-shaped basins. Steep slopes result
The area velocity method based on the hydraulic characteristics of the stream is
probably the most reliable among the methods for determining the flood discharge. The
velocity obtained in the stream under the flood conditions is calculated by Manning’s or a
similar formula.
2.6 Components of Bridge
The substructure of a bridge refers to that part of it that supports the structure that
carries the roadway or the superstructure. Thus substructure covers pier and abutment
bodies together with their foundations, and also the arrangements above the piers and
abutments through which the superstructure bears on the structure. The latter are called
bearings.
Usually, the structures are analyzed for loads that do not change their points of
application on the structure. Very often structures have to be analyzed for many parallel
moving loads which keep on changing their positions on the structure. In such cases, the
internal stresses in the structure at any given point, which depend on the positions of the
loads, keep on varying as the loads take up different positions on the structure.
A typical instance is a bridge loaded with several moving vehicles, which are then
said to constitute a train of wheel loads. To design such structures, it is not enough to
analyze the structure for a given position of loads and calculate the stress resultants
namely: bending moments, radial and normal shear forces at any section in a member of
the structure. The engineer must know the maximum values of stress resultants, both
positive and negative, at any section of the structure. Sometimes the designer would even
like to know the maximum deflection at a given point when a structure is subjected to
moving loads.
the bridge design as the bridge design receives a heavy patch load.
A very simple, popular, and powerful method to analyze girder for live load in
Courbon’s method is popular due to the simplicity of the computations and is applicable
• The ratio of span to the width of the bridge is greater than 2 but less than 4
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• The depth of the transverse beam should be at least 0.75 times the depth of the
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