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| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-14-0010 | |
| Project Name: | Development of Long-Term Bridge Performance Program Protocols for Steel Bridge Coatings | |
| Project Status: | Active | |
| Start Date: | May 1, 2014 | |
| End Date: | September 30, 2014 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Ocel | |
| First Name: | Justin | |
| Telephone: | 202-493-3080 | |
| E-mail: | justin.ocel@dot.gov | |
| Office: | Office of Infrastructure Research and Development | |
| Team: | Bridge and Foundation Engineering Team [HRDI-40] | |
| Program: | High-Performing Steel Bridge | |
| Project detail | ||
| Roadmap/Focus area(s): | Infrastructure Research and Technology Strategic Plan and Roadmap | |
| Project Description: | This project will help the Long-Term Bridge Performance program identify what types of data need to be collected and analyzed to assess the performance of steel bridge coatings. | |
| Goals: | To gain an understanding of the types of variables that need to be measured to asses steel coating performance and how to select reference/cluster bridges. | |
| Background Information: | Since 2006, the Federal Highway Administration has embarked on a Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program to assess the performance of this Nations bridges. The LTBP program was envisioned to be a twenty-plus-year monitoring program of many bridges, as well as desk audits to identify the traits or environmental variables that yield overall good bridge performance. As the LTBP program has evolved, input has been gathered from a variety of stakeholder groups to help the program achieve its maximum potential. One such input gathering took place on July 16, 2012 and was termed LTBP Industry Day.One of the stakeholder groups present at the LTBP program Industry Day was the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA). They presented five ideas that the LTBP program should consider, one of which was to "create a database of zinc coated bridges, which could track first cost and maintenance cost information."When NSBA presented this, the term zinc coated bridges was meant to include all types of protective systems that use zinc, including zinc-rich primers, thermally applied zinc, and hot-dip galvanizing. The notion behind it was to track the overall historical performance of zinc coating systems while relating it to first cost and cost, effectiveness, and repetition of maintenance operations. For the LTBP program to measure the performance of zinc coatings, it needs to identify the metrics by which to evaluate coating performance. | |
| Product Type: | Draft standard, specifications, or guidelines White paper | |
| Test Methodology: | Literature Review | |
| Expected Benefits: | Proactive development of protocols could allow the Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) to collect this type of data sooner than planned. | |
| Deliverables: | 1. Name: WORKING TITLE - "Suggested Methods for the Assessment of Steel Bridge Coatings" Product Type(s): White paper Description: A white paper describing the types of data that can be collected along with a recommendation based on fiscal constraints of the program. 2. Name: WORKING TITLE - "LTBP Data Collection Protocol(s) for Steel Bridge Coatings" Product Type(s): Draft standard, specifications, or guidelines Description: This will be Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) format protocols that must be exercised when collecting data from the field. | |
| FHWA Topics: | Roads and Bridges--Structures | |
| TRT Terms: | Steel Bridges Coatings Bridge performance Bridges Research Infrastructure |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Structures |
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| Subject Areas: | Bridges and other structures Maintenance and Preservation |
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