Bridge Facts
This is the longest structure in Georgia with a structure length of 8,852 feet.
What is the Talmadge Bridge?
The Fed's say NSTM Inspections are required on intervals of how many months?
What is 24 months? Georgia requires every 12 months.
Policy says this is when you add a bridge to the dive list.
When a thorough inspection cannot be performed because of excessive water depth? (4 feet of water is a good reference point, but not set in stone in policy)
If the bridge has a rail system is made of guardrail what is the post spacing that determines whether it is coded an I vs a 0 ?
6'-3"
Horizontal parts of a rolled I-shaped beam or of a built-up girder extending transversely across the top and bottom of the web.
Flange
This number is closest to the total number of bridges in the United States?
What is 600,000?
There are this many metrics we have to pass as a unit.
What is 23?
- Have limited or restricted means for entry and exit
- Are large enough for inspectors to enter and perform work
- Are not designed for continuous occupancy
What are confined spaces?
If a structure has 5 spans, it should have this many substructure units.
What is 6?
The critical links between the superstructure and substructure, these components must be inspected for proper movement.
What is bearings?
This bridge collapse in 1967 over the Ohio River led to the creation of the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) program.
What is the Silver Bridge?
You need to have these to prove you looked at the different parts of a structure.
What are photos?
This job title has primary responsibility for the underwater bridge inspection program in the State.
Who is the State Bridge Maintenance Engineer?
In the SNBI, this is a condition that poses an "imminent threat to public safety" and requires an immediate response and reporting to the FHWA.
This erosion of the riverbed or streambed around a bridge's foundation is a critical concern for underwater inspectors.
What is scour?
According to the InspectX homepage, Georgia has this many structures total?
(You can be within 10 plus or minus to be correct)
What is 15,454?
Established in 1971, these federal standards regulate bridge inspections in the United States.
What are the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS)?
The maximum amount of time before you make the call for an "A" priority.
What is 4 hours?
This U.S. government agency oversees the SNBI and the collection of bridge data for the National Bridge Inventory.
What is the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)?
Performed on a new or rebuilt structure, this inspection establishes baseline condition data.
What is an initial inspection?
What bridge has the longest span in the state? not including the Cable Stays.
17TH Street at 338' Structure # 121-5305-0
According to federal standards for highway bridges on public roads, this is the minimum number of months between routine inspections.
What is 24 months?
How do we monitor the long-term, natural or human-induced changes in the stream bed's elevation. Degradation (lowering) can be a type of long-term scour, while aggradation (raising) is the opposite process.
Waterway Soundings and analyze in Channel history.
The SNBI was incorporated by reference into this set of Federal regulations on June 6, 2022.
What are the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS)?
A pair of adjacent surfaces in reinforced concrete where two pours have met.
Construction Joint.