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NUMBER
6
Notes
Field
TRANSPORTATION
CYLINDERS
of
CONCRETE
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS SAMPLING
TESTING
BINDERS
s
FOREST SERVICE STANDARD
SPECIFICATIONS
AUTOSTRESS BRIDGE
CHANGES
EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT
FOREST SERVICE
JUNE
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or
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
1980
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ENGINEERING
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Information
contained
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has
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6
been developed
for
of employees
and its
respon-sibility
of
the
United
Federal
cooperating
for
States
the
in
this
publication
Department
of
Service
Agriculture-Forest
guidance
its
contractors
and State agencies. The Department of Agriculture
interpretation or use
of this information
by other than
assumes no
its
own
employees.
and
of trade firm or corporation
names in this publication is for the information
does
not
constitute
official
endorsement
convenience
of the reader.
Such use
an
or approval
The
use
of any
product
of others
The
that
or service
may be
text in the
publication
must not
be construed
or policy
except
engineers
not
by the United
States Department
as
represents
the
recommended
personal
exclusively
opinions
or approved
Because
by FSM references.
should
and engineering technicians
intended
to the exclusion
of the respective
procedures
issue
however
FOREST SERVICE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Washington
D.C.
author and
mandatory instructions
of material in the publication
of the type
read each
for engineers.
U.S.
1
of Agriculture
suitable.
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this
publication
all
is
TRANSPORTATION
Robert
CYLINDERS
CONCRETE
OF
Wildman
D.
Engineering Technician
National Forest
Sawtooth
Region
4
Representa-tives
and Contracting
Officers
Inspectors
As all Construction
know full concrete cylinders are difficult to transport to
They usually end up in the rear of a pickup
the testing facility.
Until recently there has not
and
around.
rolling
together
clanging
the
well enough to have them
to
tie
together
a
cylinders
been
way
remain upright while driving on rough winding mountain roads.
Now there is a way the cylinder carrier shown in figures 1 2 and
full cylinders.
The
3
has alleviated the problem of transporting
carrier shown was designed to hold eight cylinders but it could be
The 8-cylinder carrier can be constructed
made larger or smaller.
from the following materials
Plywood
2
-
3/4
in.
19.1
2
-
3/4
in.
19.1
2
-
3/4
2
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3/4
in.
19.1
Finishing
Padding
x
mm
1/2
in.
1/2
419.1
in.
914.4
x
x
mm
in.
215.9 mm
16
x
36
x
mm
215.9
x
8
x
x
mm
1/2
8
x
in.
457.2
x
mm
in.
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18
x
mm
x
36
x
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in.
mm
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x
mm
16 1/2
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34
in.
mm
bottom
short
in.
mm
1/2
876.3
and
top
side
long side
bottom
in.
mm
insert
nails
foam or rubber
Empty cylinders
blowing off.
may be
transported
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down
to
keep
lids from
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3.
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corner view
CONSULTATION
9
Walter
Assistant
CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS
STANDARDS
Furen
Director
E.
SAMPLING
TESTING
HANDBOOK
J.
Mandigo
Engineer
Washington
Office
E.
Materials
1977 Region
published a materials handbook for construction
and materials field personnel.
The publication
proved to be quite
convenient
field
reference
in
as
well as in several
as a
Region
1
2
Within
the
next
other
years
Regions
provided
adjacent Regions.
and materials personnel.
similar information to their construction
In
1
consid-ered
an internal need for a similar publication Region 9
Recognizing
Office in
the
matter to the attention of the Washington
brought
that
Service-wide
handbook
should
be
1979
and suggested
a
brief
to
several
of
the
the
a
Regions by
inquiry
Washington
Based on the recognized
need and the
Office confirmed that need.
potential efficiency of preparing and updating one Service-wide
handbook versus several individual efforts development
of the
and into the spring of
proceeded
during the winter of 1979-1980
1980.
A task force consisting of Bob Hinshaw Region 1 Duane
Ted Stuart Region 5 Bob Harmon Region
Logan Region
and
Jim Mandigo WO collaborated
on the handbook.
hand-book
sev-eral
Region-2
Con-struction
3
The
handbook
9
combines
new material with information taken from
the Region-1 and Region-3 handbooks
and several State publications.
training material FHWA handbook
The result is a publication
that is applicable Service-wide
and
is
consistent with Forest Service Standard Specifications
for the
of Roads and Bridges EM-7720-100
1979 edition.
sources including
sam-pling
The handbook incorporates
a glossary of sampling and testing terms
and chapters on safety sampling techniques and testing procedures.
Standard test methods published by the American Association
of State
Officials
Highway and Transportation
AASHTO which are frequently
needed in the field are also included.
Revised
schedules for
and testing frequencies
are presented as are new standard
forms with comprehensive examples.
5
pro-spective
con-struction
Because the handbook contains new material the decision was made
for a review by
to distribute a limited number of draft copies
users.
The review will take place during the 1980
season revisions will be made during the winter with
planned for the spring of 1981.
publication
The
quality of the final publication
depends largely on cooperation
Reviewers
during the field review process.
are asked to give it a
fair trial and provide comments and suggestions.
Your help is
greatly appreciated.
6
BINDERS
FOR FOREST SERVICE
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS
STANDARD
SPECIFICATIONS
FOR
BRIDGES
EM-7720-100
E.
Unruh
and Maintenance
Office
Washington
M.
Construction
Engineer
bind-ers
1979
StandardýSpec-ifications
EM-7720-100
fall of
a new edition of Forest Service
was
Construction
of Roads and Bridges
for
trimmed
and
drilled
for
looseleaf
printed 1500 copies were
At the same time special
and distributed
for in-Service use.
use for a period of 4 to
looseleaf binders intended for heavy-duty
distributed.
6 years were
ordered and
Many of the covers separated
and
from the spines during shipment
many more were found to be
since then.
In
the
de-fective
require-ments
com-pleted
We
have
binders that will meet our
new heavy-duty
purchased
is
as soon as production
and they will be distributed
the
1979 shipment.
to those who received
7
THE
AUTOSTRESS
BRIDGE
Bruesch
Chief Highway Structures Engineer
Washington
Office
L.
D.
with the
The Forest Service has entered into a collection agreement
and
Steel
Institute
to
construct
and
field
test
American Iron
AISI
steel
a
new
method
called
a
Autostress
girder bridge designed by
National
Forest.
which is to be installed on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
Forester
R.
E.
in
The agreement signed by Regional
June
Worthington
1980 calls for a single-lane two-span continuous bridge over the
Whitechuck
River about 90 miles 144.8 kilometers northeast of
AISI enlisted the Forest Services help
Seattle
Washington.
of the availability of the heavy logging equipment loads.
be-cause
in-duced
sav-ings
load-factor
Autostress
design method is an extension of the presently
to utilize the
load-factor
design method and was developed
After a few
ability of a redundant steel structure to shakedown.
of a sufficiently
heavy load such a bridge will develop
passages
moments and stresses caused by plastic deformations in the case
of the proposed Whitechuck
River Bridge these will develop over the
of similar loads the moments
pier.
During subsequent passages
will ensure elastic behavior and are analogous to the moments
in a concrete
beam by prestressing.
The moments and stresses
Cost
are produced
automatically hence the name Autostress.
in comparison
to the cost of a
might run 5 to 10 percent
designed structure.
The
used
The collection agreement signed by AISI and the Forest Service
involves others
The U.S. Steel Corporation
Research
Laboratory
Monroeville Pennsylvania will perform the initial design for the
steel girders the FHWA Western Bridge Office under contract
to
will prepare the design and drawings and the
the Forest Service
under
Civil Engineering Department University of Washington
The agreement
to AISI will perform the field testing.
AISI to bear all costs over and above that of the most cost
install.
effective
structure
that the Forest Service normally would
con-tract
re-quires
con-cept
the bridge is to be constructed
Under the present schedule
during
the summers of 1981 and 1982 field testing will follow immediately.
The test results will be used then to support inclusion of the
in the AASHTO
bridge design specifications.
9
TECHNOLOGICAL
IMPROVEMENTS
Harold L. Strickland
Assistant Director
CHANGES
AT
EQUIPMENT
DEVELOPMENT
Farnum M. Burbank
Development
Chief Equipment
Office
Washington
CENTERS
Engineer
presen-tation
Foresters and Directors meeting in Missoula
the recent Regional
Montana we had an opportunity to brief the group about new events
Dr. Tom Nelson introduced
the
within Equipment
Development.
It is no longer business as usual
with the brief statement
for Equipment
Development.
At
self-examination
Admin-istrative
few years we have gone through a critical
We asked the
our organization and procedures.
Staff for help in analyzing our operations and
Management
efforts.
From these
the results of everyones
we have evaluated
was the
look.
One of the first considerations
a new
we developed
restructuring of the organization to provide stronger leadership
Office.
from the Washington
Consequently the Centers have been
units of the Washington
Office with the
reassigned as detached
Center Managers reporting to the Assistant Director for
This will provide
Improvements Division of Engineering.
direction as well
and consistent technical and administrative
needs.
to management
as optimum responsiveness
Over
the past
of
uni-fied
Technologi-cal
Implemen-tation
empha-size
proce-dures
and
Selection
of a new Project Evaluation
development
change and I want to
Process PESIP- is a significant
There will be systematic
certain
important features.
for benefits analysis estimates of probability of success
environmental safety and
and engineering assessments of economic
their
will
be measured against
All
projects
other impacts.
proposed
The
contributions
to the Resource
Planning Act program targets.
selection process will highlight a national system of priority
based on the Chiefs goals skills available functional
The final program will be the
and funding available.
National
Forest System whose
Chief
for
of
the
Deputy
responsibility
of all the
this
analysis
will
be
based
on
systematic
decisions
in operation
will
a
linear
already
We
use
program
mentioned.
criteria
of
of
the
funding
use
programs
thereby making optimal
other
identifiable
or
quantifiable
or
skills
available priorities
The
set-ting
re-quirements
ele-ments
11
poten-tial
factors.
The system provides excellent opportunities
for closer
with Research
and
selection
coordination
the
during
analysis
phase
and with State and Private Forestry during the implementation phase.
The linear program also aids in the identification of Center
workloads
and required skill mixes well in advance of the start
of work.
Pro-cedures
This
only part of the total engineering development
cycle.
and test phase and
are being prepared for the development
the
We will keep you informed of
implementation and use phase.
progress.
is
accord-ing
for
pro-vide
the
Starting with FY 1982 the Center budgets will be prepared
to standard Forest Service formats.
We believe the standard
formats will eliminate the misunderstanding and confusion that have
occurred
in the past due to our different procedures
and will
the opportunity
for better budgetary
administration
and control.
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1980
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1980
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of the March issue Figure 4 on page 11 was
90 clockwise thereby showing the
rotated inadvertently
underside of the bridge in a vertical
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