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The Federal Highway Administration’s Bridge Inspector’s Reference Manual (BIRM) is a comprehensive manual on programs, procedures, and techniques for inspecting and evaluating a variety of in-service highway bridges. BIRM serves as the basis of a comprehensive National Highway Institute training program in bridge-safety inspection. This 4 hour course is based on BIRM’s Chapter 3, Bridge Terminology, and Chapter 5, Bridge Mechanics, and discusses:
1) major bridge components and elements
2) characteristics of decks, superstructures, and substructures
3) bridge response to loadings
4) bridge design methods, ratings, and span classifications
5) redundancy in bridge design
6) bridge foundations.
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