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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Full Manual (pdf 39.41 MB)

• Publication Number: M 23-50
• Last Modified: March, 2012
• Version: M 23-50.11
• Manual Managers: Scott Sarget, 360-705-7753, sargenw@wsdot.wa.gov
• Originators: Bridge and Structures Office, Engineering and Regional Operations Division
• # of Pages: 1,322
• 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 427 KB)
Foreword (pdf 152 KB)

Chapter 1 General Information (pdf 1.5 MB)
Chapter 2 Preliminary Design (pdf 3.6 MB)
Chapter 3 Loads (pdf 1.3 KB)
Chapter 4 Seismic Design and Retrofit (pdf 4.8 MB) 
Chapter 5 Concrete Structures (pdf 17 MB)
Chapter 6 Structural Steel (pdf 2 MB)
Chapter 7 Substructure Design (pdf 2.6 MB)
Chapter 8 Walls and Buried Structures (pdf 2.8 MB) 
Chapter 9 Bearings & Expansion Joints (pdf 1.5 MB)

Chapter 10 Sign, Barriers, Approach Slabs, & Utilities (pdf 9.7 MB)
Chapter 11 Detailing Practice (pdf 1.2 MB)
Chapter 12 Quantities, Costs, & Specifications (pdf 2.5 MB)
Chapter 13 Bridge Load Rating (pdf 1.7 MB)

Revision Historytop

This abstract was last modified May 7, 2012