- Steel bridge design handbook-Structural steel bridge shop drawings
- W. Gatti
- Book Title / Journal: Publication No. FHWA-IF-12-052 - Vol. 3, HDR Engineering, Inc., Pittsburgh, USA
- Year: 2012 , Volume: Vol. 3 , Series:
- Bridge management ; Bridges
- Description
- The preparation of shop drawings is a very specialized process with its own language and methods. The drawings and data for
fabrication are
developed from information presented on the contract drawings. These drawings contain the basic bridge
geometry, pier and sub
-
structure locations and design, as well as the sizes of all material, weld and bolt sizes and the basic
connection information.
Fabrication, thus the shop drawings, must adhere to all the applicable specifications and the information
on the contract plans. With this in mind, the detailers, shop drawing producers, must have experience, knowledge and ability
to
translate contract i
nformation into shop drawings. Steel bridge fabrication is a field unlike any others such as building
construction, therefore most detailers who prepare steel bridge shop drawings specialize in bridges, and very few of them det
ail
buildings or other steel
structures.
This document contains the history, present practices, and illustrations of the fundamentals of
shop detail drawings for steel bridges, and is not intended to cover every type of bridge structure. The purpose is to famil
iarize
engineers, det
ailers and other individuals involved with steel bridge fabrication on the preparation and use of shop detail
drawings.
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