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Design of Steel Bridges using AASHTO LRFD Specification (2001 Interim)

Date:	December 11, 2002
Time:	8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location:	Hilton Salt Lake City Center 255 South West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
Instructors:	Atorod Azizinamini, P.E., Ph.D. and Ahmad Itani, P.E., Ph.D.

This 8 hour design will be devoted to the design of steel bridges using the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. Each participant will receive a Certificate of Attendance, which could be used for Continuing Education credit.

Background to Probability and Reliability aspect of AASHTO LRFD code
Load models for strength and fatigue limit states
Distribution factors for various load conditions and limit states
Strength capacity of steel plate girders
Definition of compact, non-compact and slender sections
Positive section with compact interior support
Positive section with non-compact interior support
Compact negative sections
Non-Compact negative sections
Fatigue and fracture limit states
Service limit state
Constructability design provisions
Design for shear and combined shear and moment
Tips for economical ways of using high performance steel in steel bridge designs
Steel bridges behaving simple for dead load and continuous for live loads
Design of a three span continuous steel bridge system
Seismic Design for steel bridges and latest AASHTO developments

This course is suited for engineering professionals engaged in the design of steel bridges using AASHTO specifications.

A notebook containing the material to be covered in the class will be provided to the participants.

Dr. Atorod Azizinamini is the Director of the National Bridge research Organization (NaBRO) and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Before joining the UNL Civil Engineering faculty in 1989, Dr. Azizi was a practicing engineer for 7 years. He has taught courses on design of steel bridges using AASHTO LRFD and on bridge substructure design. He is chair of the ASCE Steel Bridge Technical Administrative Committee, overseeing all ASCE bridge committees, a member of the AISI Steel Bridge Task Force and the Transportation Research Board Steel Bridge Committee. Dr. Azizi is active in steel bridge research and frequently makes presentations on design issues related to steel bridges at national and international conferences. His latest research activities concentrate on removing AASHTO limitations that prevent full utilization of high-performance steel in bridge construction.

Ahmad M. Itani, P.E., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a Professional Civil Engineer in California where he practiced bridge engineering at the California Department of Transportation. He has conducted large scale cyclic experiments on the existing San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Richmond San Rafael Bridge and the newly proposed single tower self anchored Bay Bridge.