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Resource Newspaper and journal articles, memoranda, timelines, bibliographies, and miscellany on the development of intercity freeways in Minneapolis-St. Paul in the 1950s-1970s, especially their effects on the Rondo, Merriam Park, Prospect Park, and other neighborhoods.
High Bridge : ten wood engravings of demolition with nine stories of construction by Schanilec, Gaylord. Text derived from stories in the St. Paul Daily globe and the St. Paul Pioneer press from 1887 to 1889, edited by Clayton Schanilec. Also issued in a 26 lettered copies edition which include looseleaf pages in a folder. "High Bridge was designed and printed ... at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in an edition of 174 numbered ... copies." This is copy ... Mn/DOT's copy is no. 35.
Call Number: F613.S67 H453 1987
High Bridge highs : a goodbye by Vadnais, Kathleen M.
Call Number: TG24.M5 V3 1984
Vertical File Pertaining to Bridges Newspaper and journal articles, brochures, and reports on Minnesota bridges in general and numerous specific bridges, including their history, condition, and reconstruction.
Call Number: Mn/DOT Library Vertical File--Bridges
Development of an advanced structural monitoring system by Schultz, Arturo E. With bridge infrastructure in Minnesota aging, advancing techniques for ensuring the safety of bridges and motorists is a fundamental goal of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT). As such, developing health monitoring systems for fracture critical bridges is an essential objective in meeting the stated goal. This report applies the methodology and uses the information of a previous Mn/DOT report to investigate, select, and design a bridge health monitoring system for the Cedar Avenue Bridge which is a fracture critical tied arch bridge in Burnsville, Minnesota. An investigation of monitoring needs for the Cedar Avenue Bridge was undertaken. In addition, the authors reviewed literature with the goal of determining the most applicable monitoring technology that is commercially available and which fulfills the required bridge monitoring needs. Once a monitoring technology was selected, the authors selected a vendor, using a computer-based program developed in the aforementioned Mn/DOT report, to select a suggested system of monitoring equipment for Mn/DOT to purchase. Finally, the report describes multiple alternatives for monitoring scales, scopes, locations, and capabilities, with global monitoring of the most critical members and connections of the bridge as the authors' recommendation. A procedure for installation of the suggested bridge health monitoring system follows the authors' recommendations and is applicable to any of the monitoring alternatives presented in this report. http://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201039.pdf
Call Number: TG25.S75 E48 2015
Response modification for enhanced operation and safety of bridges by Gastineau, Andrew CTS ; 11-14 Final report. Performed by University of Minnesota, Dept. of Civil Engineering CTS #2010037 "August 2011." -- Technical report documentation page. Also available online. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-44). This report shows that safe extension of the service life of existing bridge structures is possible through bridge health monitoring and structural response modification. To understand bridge health monitoring and structural response modification and control, it is necessary to examine: 1) common bridge vulnerabilities, 2) bridge loading models, 3) response modification devices, and 4) bridge monitoring systems. The efficacy of response modification techniques on a realistic bridge system were demonstrated using the Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minnesota as a specific example. The Cedar Avenue Bridge is a steel tied arch bridge which means that it is fracture critical. Due to the non-redundant nature of a fracture critical bridge, fatigue failure could be catastrophic and is of concern. Previous research has shown that stress concentrations exist at the joints where the hangers and floor beams are attached to the box girder [7]. Using a simulation of response modification on the Cedar Avenue Bridge model, stress ranges have been reduced on these specific details that are of concern. Modeling using a scissor jack and simple damping device has shown that stress ranges can be reduced by approximately 39% which can lead to life extension of as much as 346%. CTS-11-14 http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportdetail.html?id=2052
Call Number: TG260 .G37 2011