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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 534: Guidelines for Inspection and Strength Evaluation of Suspension Bridge Parallel Wire Cables offers recommendations for the inspection and strength evaluation of suspension bridge parallel-wire cables. A companion CD-ROM provides details of the research program undertaken to develop the guidelines and explanations of the guidelines’ recommendations.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2004. Guidelines for Inspection and Strength Evaluation of Suspension Bridge Parallel Wire Cables. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/23338.

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263 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/23338
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Front Matter i-ix
Section 1 - General 1-25
Section 2 - Inspection 26-84
Section 3 - Laboratory Testing 85-92
Section 4 - Evaluation of Field and Laboratory Data 93-114
Section 5 - Estimation of Cable Strength 115-138
Section 6 - Inspection Reports 139-142
Appendix A - Models for Estimating Cable Strength 143-157
Appendix B - Effect of Deterioration in Adjacent Panels on Estimated Cable Strength 158-169
Appendix C - Illustrative Examples 170-258
Appendix D - Splicing New Wires 259-263
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications 264-264

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