We chose to explore rehabilitating and redesigning the Worcester Street Bridge in Grafton, Massachusetts. Options for rehabilitation were obtained through background research, the Structural Inventory and Appraisal Reports, and visits to the bridge. Necessary information for redesigning in both structural steel and prestressed concrete was gathered using an analysis of the existing bridge along with governing codes and loads established by AASHTO and PCI. Utilizing our results, the suitable structural steel redesigns were selected and a life-cycle cost analysis was performed on each in order to choose the most economic option.

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Creator

• Troncoso, Tracy Patturelli
• Rizzo, Adria Michelle
• Patoulidis, Jennifer Lee

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D168M

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.

Year

• 2001

Sponsor

• Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Massachusetts Highway Department

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright