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Bridge Railing Design Requirements

Since the implementation of the bridge rail guidance provided in AASHTO LRFD BDS Section 13 (AASHTO 2017), the landscape of roadside safety hardware testing, evaluation, and design has changed ...
The Baltimore Sun

Key Bridge rebuild: Gov. Wes Moore unveils new design for Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement

Gov. Wes Moore unveiled the design of the new Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday, less than a year after the bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River upon being struck by a container ship. A new, taller ...
The Baltimore Sun

As 12-month Key Bridge design process begins, ‘structure remnants’ to be blasted, demolished in months ahead

Each weekday, Baltimore-area motorists lose more than 20,000 vehicle-hours due to effects of traffic caused by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, and each day, the state gets infinitesimally, but ...
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Bridge Railing Design Requirements

This review considered the state of the practice in the testing, design, and evaluation procedures for bridge rail systems. For this review, the current AASHTO LRFD BDS (AASHTO 2020a) was considered ...