NTL Record

Title Instrumentation and 5-Year Performance Monitoring of a GRS IBS in St. Lawrence County, NY
Record ID 74206
Personal Name
Creator
Nicks, Jennifer; Adams, Michael; Stabile, Tom; Li, Jan
Corporate Creator United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
Corporate
Contributor
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
Publication Date 20200501
Language English
Abstract One of the first Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil—Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS) projects to be instrumented and evaluated under the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Every Day Counts program was a replacement bridge along County Road 47 over Trout Brook in the town of Stockholm within St. Lawrence County, NY. This GRS-IBS is aligned on a 30-degree skew with a 3.65-percent superelevation and a 0.5-percent grade. The new superstructure consists of 105-ft steel multigirders and prefabricated-concrete deck panels. The heights of the north and south geosynthetic—reinforced soil abutments were 11.0 and 11.6 ft, respectively. To evaluate the performance of this bridge, FHWA instrumented and monitored the bridge for over 5 years. This report details the results of the instrumentation installation and findings from this bridge evaluation. Overall, performance has been excellent, well within the expectations based on previous structures. Key results include measured vertical and lateral earth pressures, lateral deformations at the face and behind the backwall of the superstructure, and vertical and differential settlements.
Public Note The Contracting Officer's Representative was Michael Adams. The lab support contractors (Tom Stabile and Jan Li) were under DTFH61-12-D-00008-T-13006.
Rosap ID dot:49176
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49176
TRT Terms Geosynthetics; Mechanically stabilized earth; Integrated systems; Bridge abutments; Data collection; Monitoring
General Subjects Geosynthetic reinforced soil; Integrated bridge system; Abutment; Remote data-acquisition system; Pressure cell; In-place inclinometer; Performance monitoring; Differential settlement; Earth pressures; Lateral deformation
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1740160
Contract Number DTFH61-12-D-00008-T-13006
Report Number FHWA-HRT-20-040
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/74000/74200/74206/FHWA-HRT-20-040.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository