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... The curved girder provisions were published in the 2006 interim to the AASHTO LRFD specifications. 1 S U M M A R Y Development of LRFD Specifications for Horizontally Curved Steel Girder Bridges
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... • The comparison of resistance analysis conducted using the AASHTO Guide Specifications for curved bridges to those conducted using the new LRFD-based design provisions. Twenty-one existing bridges provided by several state DOTs and 11 simulated bridges were used in this comparison.
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