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Handbook for Bridge Inspections - TSP2

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Wearing Course<br />

• Ruts<br />

• Cracks or fissures especially around joints<br />

• Crazing or holes<br />

• Flaking off thin wearing courses, e.g. epoxy<br />

• Chippi ng and rot damage (on timber decks)<br />

• Protruding plank ends and nails (timber decks)<br />

FiW-lre 6.3-6: Wear callsetf by Rills<br />

Bearing & Bearing Shelves<br />

Joints & Joint Construction<br />

• Cracks or fissures in sections of a bearing<br />

• Cleaning the bearing and its recess<br />

• Joint anchorage points - possible missing parts<br />

• Mechani cal damage, cracks, breaks in the constructioD due to<br />

sn ow~ c\ eari n g equipment or general wear ca used by tr affic<br />

• Condition of the joint edges & their operation; possibly missi ng<br />

edges<br />

• Cleaning of the joint construction and the gap<br />

Fil:,'1/re 6.3-7: Fixing poinls of a Joilll<br />

66<br />

<strong>Handbook</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Bridge</strong> <strong>Inspections</strong>

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