PRESENTED BY-

Akanksha Tomar
Manisha Bisht
Arju Rawat
Aastha Panwar
Varsha Rani
Archo Farida
Prachi Mathpal
 Deck slab
 Cantilever portion
 Longitudinal girders
 Cross girders
 Abutments & piers
 Bearing
 Foundations
 This is most commonly adopted type of bridge
for span range of 10 to 25m.
 It is so named because the main longitudinal
girder are designed as T-Beam which is integral
part of deck slab cast monolithically with the
deck slab .
 Simply supported T-Beam spans of over 25m are
rare as the dead load than becomes too heavy
.However, there is a bridge have single span of
35m named “Advice Bridge “ in “Goa”.
 In other words we can say T-Beam Bridge is
combination of [deck slab with longitudinal
girder & cross girder] Superstructure &
[piers,abutment & foundations ]Substructure.
 1. DECK
DECK IS THE PORTION WHICH CARRIES ALL THE TRAFFIC.
 The protion which supports the deck slab and
girder and connects one sub structure to the
other.
 That means all the elements of the bridge
attached to a superstructure.
 The parts of the bridge which support the
superstructure and transmits all the structural
loads of the bridge to the foundations.
 For example piers, abutments etc.
 Foundation is the portion which transmits
loads to the bearing strata.
 Foundation is required to support the piers,
bridge towers, portal frames.
 Generally , piles and well foundations such as
H-pile, bore pile, pipe pile or precast
concrete piles are adopted.
 When there are only two
longitudinal girders the
reactions on the longitudinal can
be found by assuming the
support of the deck sab as
unyielding with three or more
longitudinal girder the load
distribution is estimated wing
anyone of rational method.
(a)Courbon’s method
(b) Hendry –jaegar method
(c) Morice and Little version of
guyon and massonnet method
 By using anyone of the above
method , the maximum reaction
factor for intermidiate and end
longitudinal girder are obtained.
 Pier cap is the
topmost part of a
pier which transfers
loads from
superstructure to the
pier.
 It is also known as
headstock .
 It provides sufficient
seating for the girder
and distributes the
loads from the
bearing to the piers.
 Pier is the part of the
substructure and
transfers loads of
superstructure to the
foundations.
 Pier is suitable for
spanned bridge with
maximum width of deck
up to 8m(2 traffic lanes).
 The shape and size of
pier mainly depend on
aesthetics, site,space and
economic constraints of
the construction .
 Bearing is a device
which supports the
parts of superstructure
and transfers loads
and movements from
the deck to the
substructure and
foundation.
 The main purpose of
providing a bearing is
to permit controlled
movement and
decrease the stress
involved.
 Pile is a slender
member driven into
the surrounding
soil to resists the
loads.
 Pile cap is a thick
reinforced concrete
slab cast on top of
the group piles to
distribute loads.
 Cross beam are provided to mainly
stiffen the girder and to reduce
torsion in the exterior girder.
 These are essential over the supports
to prevent lateral spread of the
girder of the bearing .
 When the spacing of cross beam is
less then about 1.8 times that of
longitudinal girder, the deck slab can
be designed as a two way slab .
 The thickness of the cross beam
should not be less then the minimum
thikness of the webs of the
longitudinal girder .
 The depth of the end cross girder
should be such as to permit excess
for inspection of bearing.