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Zachary Bulva, Lin Engineering, Ltd., Springfield, Illinois

I found this to be a good

refresher course. It was good for
breaking down complex subject
matters. I did get quite a bit from
the course. I can always continue
to learn and grow as a structural
engineer and this course helped me
to do that.

December 911, 2013

Madison, Wisconsin

Highway Bridge Design

19th Annual National Course

As of 2010 all state bridges will be

designed using the LRFD method, and
all local bridges with federal funding will
require LRFD. Learn now.

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AASHTO
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Department of Engineering
Professional Development

19th Annual National Course

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Highway Bridge
Design

December 911, 2013

Madison, Wisconsin
This course presents
practical information on:

AASHTO LRFD Design

Bridge Specifications,
Customary U.S. Units,
6th edition

Concrete and steel

bridges

Small and medium-span

bridges

Bridge superstructures
and piers

Seismic design concepts

Bridge aesthetics and

more

A basic, practical course

Highway Bridge Design

December 911, 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin
Why You Should Attend
Upon completion you will:

Meet Your Course Instructor

Have a working knowledge of basic

highway bridge engineering and design
under the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design
Specifications, 6th Edition

Professor Michael G. Oliva is a structural engineer and a

member of the University of WisconsinMadison civil and
environmental engineering faculty. He has conducted research
to develop design methods for a variety of bridge types and has
written specifications adopted by AASHTO for bridge design. A
fellow in PCI, he is active in the PCI Bridge Committee and has
interests in design methods, FRP and sustainability.

Receive practical answers to your basic

questions about bridge design
Hear the latest information about design
procedures, materials, and methods being
used in current highway bridge engineering
practice, including research

Who Should Attend

Bridge engineers
Structural engineers
Qualified engineering technicians
Managers
Contractors
State and federal officials
Consultants
No bridge design experience is required for
this course, but a background of structural
engineering is necessary. This is not an
advanced course. Please review the Course
Outline and Schedule to learn what will be
covered. Take action. Enroll today!

Special Benefit for Course

Attendees
As a course participant, you will receive
a course notebook with information and
examples and references for use back home in
your organization for doing practical highway
bridge engineering and design. These
materials (please leave room in your suitcase)
will enable you to reap the rewards of these
sessions and to learn in the future as you
work with highway bridge projects. They are
not available for sale to those not attending
this course. And remember, as of 2010 all
state bridges will be designed using the LRFD
method, and all local bridges with federal
funding will require LRFD. Learn now.
Note: Bring your calculator; and come
prepared to discuss your bridge design
problems and get answers.

A Sampling of Previously
Enrolled Organizations
BNSF Railway Company
BSM Consulting Engineers
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Reclamation
Burns & McDonnell
California Dept. of Water Resources
City of Fort Lauderdale
Cook County Highway Department
Cook Engineering, Ontario, Canada
CTL Group
Department of National Defence, Canada
Federal Highway Administration
Foth & Van Dyke Associates
HDR Incorporated
HNTB Corporation
H.W. Lochner, Inc.
IIW Engineers and Surveyors, P.C.
Kansas Southern Railway Company
Kudrna & Associates, Ltd.
Mead and Hunt, Inc.
Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.
MSA Professional Services
N.J. Turnpike Authority
Parsons Brinckerhoft
Saudi Aramco, S.A.
State DOTs, IL, FL, NY, WI
Stanley Consultants, Inc.
URS Corporation
US Air Force Academy
US Army Corps of Engineers
US Fish and Wildlife
USDA Forest Service
Westbrook Associated Engineers, Inc.
Wilbur Smith Associates

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Made otherwise complex

ideas very simple.
Matthew Dotta, PE
Star Building Systems, La Crosse, Wisconsin

My structures course in
college covered LRFD, but not
in depthit was great to have
a refresher.
Michael Wilson
Williams & Works, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan

LRFD design problems were

practical and covered most
every aspect.
Dan Zacharski
DB Sterlin Consultants, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

Excellent. Prof. Oliva kept

my attention throughout
the whole class. This
course further helped my
understanding of design tasks
that I perform on a daily basis
and introduced me to new
design topics that I was not
previously aware of.
Athena Yiantsos, Structural Engineer
AECOM Transportation, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania

I liked the course very much.

It will help me in my designs
and was easy to follow.
Naveed Akhtar
K. Singh & Associates, Elm Grove, Wisconsin

Course Outline and Schedule

Notes: The course agenda and time schedule are somewhat flexible and will be adjusted to best fit the needs of the participants. You will be
asked for your specific interests, needs, and questions. We will do our very best to tailor our presentations to address your concerns.
The course will include illustrative examples and worked problems taught in Customary U.S. Units. Bring your calculator. You are invited
to send in advance a copy of excerpts from your bridge design problems. We will discuss and critique them. Send excerpts , not later than
Wednesday, December 4, to Prof. James Tinjum, Engineering Professional Development, 432 North Lake Street, Room 833, Madison, WI 53706.
As we present and work through examples we will interject relevant breather topics, such as Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), Fiber
Reinforced Polymers (FRP) in deck construction, and others.

Course Outline
Monday, December 9
7:15 Continental Breakfast and
Registration
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI
7:50 Welcome and Introduction to Course
James M. Tinjum, PE
Department of Engineering
Professional Development
University of WisconsinMadison
Michael G. Oliva
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
University of WisconsinMadison
8:10 Introduction to LRFD Highway
Bridge Design
Basic design approach (AASHTO 6th ed.)
Limit states, combined loadings, and load
factors
Factors (importance, ductility, redundancy,
uncertainty, lanes, traffic, dynamics)
9:10 Design Process for Highway Bridges
Importance of aesthetics
Use of modern materials and technology
Environmental concerns
Form, shape, and size determinants
(geometry, superstructure type, pier and
abutment placements, superstructure and
abutment shapes, colors and texture)
10:00 Morning Break and Discussions
10:20 Design Process (session continues)
11:00 Bridge Floor Concrete Deck Design
Design criteria for performance
Deck weight estimates
Empirical and traditional design alternates
Live load moments
Strength 1 limit state moments
Reinforcing (amount and distribution)
Service limit state checks
12:00 Get-Acquainted Luncheon
Attend and meet your course instructor and
fellow attendees

1:00 Steel Bridge Design: Step-by-step,

3-span, Composite Action, 30-ft Roadway,
Major Highway Bridge Design Example
Beam layout
Lane load distribution
Dead load estimate
Limit state force analyses
Strength design
Service 1 deflections
Other strength requirements
Service limit requirements
Web fatigue
Fatigue limit state
Shear capacity
Beam-to-slab shear connector design
Locating splices
Checking design assumptions
3:00 Afternoon Break and Discussion
3:25 Steel Bridge Design (session
continues)
5:15 Adjourn for the Day

Tuesday, December 10
7:15 Continental Breakfast
8:00 Steel Bridge Design (session
continues)
9:30 Morning Break and Discussions
9:50 Pier Hammerhead Design: Step-byStep, 3-Span Steel Bridge
Girder reactions and bearing capacity
Influence coefficients for beam reactions
Pier cap forces
Transverse wind loads
Pier cap strength design
Considerations for pier shaft design
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Seismic Design
Introduction to the new AASHTO LRFD
Guide Specifications for Seismic Design of
Bridges
Basic steps in seismic designa qualitative
description of the process
Step-by-step modifications to design
of pier for steel bridgean example of
seismic calculations
3:00 Afternoon Break and Discussions
3:25 Seismic Design (session continues)
5:15 Adjourn for the Day

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Wednesday, December 11
7:15 Continental Breakfast
7:45 Prestressed/Precast Concrete
Bridge Design
Customary span lengths and girder
sections
Prestressed beam forces and stresses
Construction stages and critical stresses
Continuity and load distributions
Special details and prestress losses
Step-by-step 4-span/4-lane divided
highway bridge design example (AASHTO)
10:00 Morning Break and Discussions
10:25 An Historic Look at Bridge Design
11:25 Prestressed/Precast (session
continues)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Prestressed/Precast (session
continues)
1:45 Post-tensioned Spliced Girder
Bridge Design
Case study of 4-span/4-lane divided
highway bridge
Deck post-tensioning
Efficiency improvement methods
Bulb-tee and Washington-girder sections
Design steps and construction procedures
2:45 Afternoon Break and Discussions
3:00 Special Topics
Use of composite reinforced polymer
materials (FRP)
Precast substructures
Precast decks
Reinforcement free decks
4:00 Final Adjournment

This course
was rated 4.7
on our scale
of 1-5. This is
excellent!

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Load & Resistance

Factor Design (LRFD)
The 6th edition of the AASHTO Load &
Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Bridge
Design Specifications will be used in the
course (Customary U.S. Units). This major
step in improved bridge design and more
accurate analysis is expected to lead to bridges
exhibiting superior serviceability, enhanced
long-term maintainability, and more uniform
levels of safety. As of 2010 all state bridges will
be designed using the LRFD method, and all
local bridges with federal funding will require
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800-231-3475.

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Contact Us
Call toll free 800-462-0876 and ask for
Program Director: Prof. James M. Tinjum
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Program Associate: Sandy Krentz
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General Information
Fee Covers Three full days of instruction, course notes,
continental breakfasts, break refreshments, lunches,
and a University of Wisconsin Certificate of Participation
recognizing educational achievement (22 PDH, 2.2 CEU). Fee
does not include lodging or other meals. We do not publish
proceedings, and due to copyright laws, course materials are
not available for resale after the course.
Enrollment Options and Confirmation We
recommend enrollment in advance by phone, online, fax,
or mail ($1195). Team discount fee of $150 each is available
when two or more enroll from the same organization. Be
certain that you receive our enrollment confirmation before
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Cancellation If you cannot attend please , notify us at

least seven days prior to the course start, and we will refund
your fee. Cancellations received after this date and
no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee per
course. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the
course starts.
Location This course will be held at The Pyle Center,
702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. Phone messages:
608-262-1122.
Accommodations We have reserved a block of guest
rooms (rates starting at $89, including continental
breakfast) at Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison,
WI. Reserve a room online at epd.engr.wisc.edu/
lodgingP507 or call 866-301-1753 or 608-256-2621 and
indicate that you will be attending this course. Room
requests made later than November 11 will be subject to
availability.
We have reserved a second block of guest rooms (rates
starting at $89, including parking and Madison Taxis
silver cab from airport) at Campus Inn, 601 Langdon
Street, Madison, WI. Reserve a room online at epd.engr.wisc.
edu/lodgingBP507 or call 800-589-6285 or 608-257-4391
and indicate that you will be attending this course under
group code #136391. Room requests after November 17 will
be subject to availability. Other fees and restrictions may
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with clear purpose and objectives, which will
maintain, improve, or expand your skills and
knowledge. By participating you will earn
22 Professional Development Hours (PDH)
and 2.2 Continuing Education Units (CEU).
If you have questions or would like further
information about license renewals, please
call Jim Tinjum at 608-262-0785 (direct).

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