DMRB Volume 1 Section 3 Part 6 (BA 59/94) Highway structures: Approval procedures and general design. General design. Design of highway bridges for hydraulic action

Publication Year

1994

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

The most common cause of highway bridge failure is due to adverse hydraulic action. It is therefore essential that sufficient attention is paid to the prevention of such failure when designing new bridges over rivers, estuaries or flood-plains. A bridge's vulnerability to damage, or loss, as a result of hydraulic action, scour in particular, needs to be minimised. The purpose of this Advice Note is to provide appropriate guidance for engineers undertaking the design of bridges across watercourses. It is intended to aid in the determination of the hydraulic conditions which may occur and to quantify their associated effects upon the bridge structure which need to be adequately resisted.

Document History

Superseded by CD 356 Highway structures and bridges. Design. Design of highway structures for hydraulic action (formerly BA 59/94) (HE, 2019). DMRB 1.3.6. Design manual for roads and bridges (DMRB).

ISBN

9780115516009

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