ion{"id":16960,"date":"2019-11-12T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2019-11-12T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:50:42","slug":"recent-update-of-aashto-lrfd-bridge-construction-specifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/recent-update-of-aashto-lrfd-bridge-construction-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent update of AASHTO LRFD Bridge Construction Specifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<em>In the United States of America many welded components on existing bridges are prone to fatigue failure. The\u00a0US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that $76 billion is necessary to repair deficient bridges\u00a0throughout the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.lib.purdue.edu\/sbritereports\/4\/\">Research conducted by Purdue University<\/a> in 2018 has shown that Ultrasonic impact treatment is a highly effective technique for increasing the fatigue life of welded girders<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The study was recently extended to prove that equipment manufactured by Empowering Technologies is accepted as a reliable option for UIT application. The \u201cAASHTO LRFD Bridge Construction Specifications\u201d was modified as such in the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.transportation.org\/item\/collectiondetail\/151\">2020 Interim Revisions released in September of 2019<\/a>.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/metal-improvement\/ultrasonic-impact-treatment\/portable-equipment\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #a21c26;\">[dticon ico=&#8221;fontelloicon-plus-1&#8243;][\/dticon]Learn more about our handheld UIT equipment<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/sectors\/infrastructures\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #a21c26;\">[dticon ico=&#8221;fontelloicon-plus-1&#8243;][\/dticon]Learn more about extending fatigue life of infrastructures using UIT<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16945&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]In the United States of America many welded components on existing bridges are prone to fatigue failure. The\u00a0US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that $76 billion is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3501,3502,3920,4340,1777,3210,3306,3326],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowering-technologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}