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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 721: Fatigue Evaluation of Steel Bridges provides proposed revisions to Section 7—Fatigue Evaluation of Steel Bridges of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Manual for Bridge Evaluation with detailed examples of the application of the proposed revisions.

Appendixes A-D to NCHRP Report 721 are only available electronically. The appendices, which are in one electronic document, are as follows:

• Appendix A - Survey Interview Forms

• Appendix B - AASHTO Fatigue Truck Validation Analysis Results

• Appendix C - Tack Weld Tests

• Appendix D - Distortion Induced Fatigue Tests

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Fatigue Evaluation of Steel Bridges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22774.

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115 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/22774
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Front Matter i-vii
Summary 1-4
Chapter 1 - Background 5-6
Chapter 2 - Research Approach 7-23
Chapter 3 - Findings and Applications 24-60
Chapter 4 - Conclusions 61-63
References 64-64
Appendices A through D 65-65
Appendix E - Proposed Section 7 of MBE 66-99
Appendix F - Fatigue Examples 100-116

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