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Abstract
The Federal Highway Administration and the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, jointly sponsored the National Conference on Wood Transportation Structures, October 23-25, 1996, in Madison, Wisconsin. This was a direct result of 5 years of cooperation in conducting research related to timber transportation structures. The objective of the conference was to present state-of-the-art information on wood utilization in transportation applications. The conference included a plenary session, reviewing timber bridges throughout the world, followed by concurrent paper sessions on various topics. This report includes the papers presented at this conference.
Keywords
Timber,
bridge,
transportation structures,
stress laminated,
metal-plate-connected (MPC) truss,
design,
wood,
fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP),
railing,
sound barrier,
economics,
glulam,
glued-laminated timber,
laminated veneer lumber (LVL),
connector,
portable bridge,
shear,
preservative,
grading,
pile,
nondestructive evaluation (NDE),
rehabilitation,
load rating,
mechanical properties
Citation
Ritter, Michael A.; Duwadi, Sheila Rimal; Lee, Paula D. Hilbrich. 1996. National Conference on Wood Transportation Structures. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-94. Madison, Wl: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 494 p.
