Description: This manual has been prepared to provide Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) bridge design engineers with a guide to the design criteria, analysis methods, and detailing procedures for the preparation of highway bridge and structure construction plans, specifications, and estimates.

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• Publication Number: M 23-50
• Last Modified: August, 2012
• Version: M 23-50.12
• Manual Managers: Scott Sargent, 360-705-7753, sargenw@wsdot.wa.gov
• Originators: Bridge and Structures Office, Engineering and Regional Operations Division
• # of Pages: 1,332
• Subject:
• Keywords: highway bridge and structure construction plans, specifications, estimates, design criteria, LFRD
• Related Publications:
  Bridge List M 23-09

Bridge Design Manual Individual Chapters top

Contents (pdf 278 KB)
Foreword (pdf 96 KB)

Chapter 1 General Information (pdf 1.0 MB)
Chapter 2 Preliminary Design (pdf 3.6 MB)
Chapter 3 Loads (pdf 906 KB)
Chapter 4 Seismic Design and Retrofit (pdf 4.7 MB) 
Chapter 5 Concrete Structures (pdf 18.2 MB)
Chapter 6 Structural Steel (pdf 2.2 MB)
Chapter 7 Substructure Design (pdf 2.4 MB)
Chapter 8 Walls and Buried Structures (pdf 3.0 MB) 
Chapter 9 Bearings and Expansion Joints (pdf 1.5 MB)
Chapter 10 Sign, Barriers, Approach Slabs, and Utilities (pdf 8.6 MB)
Chapter 11 Detailing Practice (pdf 1.4 MB)
Chapter 12 Quantities, Costs, and Specifications (pdf 2.5 MB)
Chapter 13 Bridge Load Rating (pdf 1.9 MB)

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This abstract was last modified August 10, 2012