Steel Bridges: Redundancy in Design
This online engineering PDH course provides a practical explanation of redundancy and how it affects the design, fabrication, inspection, and management of steel girder bridges.
Redundancy is “the quality of a bridge that enables it to perform its design function in a damaged state” and it is considered a desirable characteristic of good design. The consideration of redundancy affects the design, fabrication and in-service inspection of steel bridge members, especially when they are classified as a "fracture critical member" (a steel tension member whose failure would potentially cause collapse).
This 2 PDH online course is applicable to civil and structural engineers and professionals who are interested in learning more about redundancy in steel bridge applications.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarizing with the basics of redundancy
- Understanding the redundancy classifications: load-path, structural, and internal redundancy
- Understanding the basics of fracture control for steel bridge members
- Learning about quantitative factors relating to the redundancy of a structural system
- Understanding the analysis requirements and the concept of enhancing redundancy
- Gaining an overview of current and future work within the steel-bridge industry to better define redundancy criteria and critical member requirements.
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