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- AASHTONWARE BARS - C.W. Beilfuss & Associates, Inc.
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- KEYWORDS: engineering, Civil Engineering , 312
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- Bridge Analysis and Rating System
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- The Bridge Analysis and Rating Systems (BARS) was developed in 1971 in response
- to the Federal Highway Safety Act of 1968 which required that national
- standards be established to provide proper inspection of all bridges on the
- federal aid highway system. Although the primary motivation for the development
- of BARS was to reduce the work load imposed by the Safety Act, it is also being
- used in a number of other bridge analysis activities, including special
- permitting, posting rating, checking of new bridge design, inventory, and
- operating rating
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- The large system assists the engineer by performing a highly automated set of
- analysis steps which provide bridge load capacity rating in final form, along
- with all supporting data. BARS is a package system of individual programs which
- have capabilities designed to allow for ready customization and natural user
- variances. Large increases in engineering productivity due to the use of BARS
- have been recorded.
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- C.W. Beilfuss & Associates, Inc.
- Tel: (312) 990-0830
- Fax: (312) 990-0855
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