Structural Capacity Evaluation of Bridge #1103 in Juncos Puerto Rico including the Design of a New Detour and Rest Area

Abstract

During the annual projections from the Federal Highway Administration for the year 2017 out of 884 bridges registered in Puerto Rico 535 were considered to be under the acceptable conditions. As result of these alarming numbers the department of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and its Senior Designs professors decided to put those numbers to the test and assign their students to do visual inspection and structural capacity evaluation of one bridge of the student’s choosing.