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DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS FOR HIGHWAY BRIDGES - IISEE

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Chapter 16 Unseating Prevention System<br />

16.1 General<br />

(1) Unseating prevention systems consist of a seating length of the girder at the<br />

support, unseating prevention structure, excessive displacement stopper, and<br />

structure for protecting superstructure from subsidence. These components shall be<br />

appropriately selected in accordance with the bridge type, type of bearing supports,<br />

ground conditions, and others.<br />

(2) As for unseating prevention systems in the longitudinal direction to the bridge axis,<br />

the seating length specified in Section 16.2 and unseating prevention structure<br />

specified in Section 16.3 shall be provided at the girder-end supports and at the<br />

movement joints. The unseating prevention structure can be omitted for a bridge in<br />

which longitudinal displacement is unlikely to occur in the bridge axis due to its<br />

structural characteristics, except those bridges shown in 2) of Section 16.5 (1), or<br />

those located on seismically unstable ground, as specified in Chapter 8.<br />

(3) As for the unseating prevention systems in the transverse direction to the bridge<br />

axis, excessive displacement stoppers shall be installed at girder-end supports, and<br />

movement joints of a bridge specified in Section 16.5 (1), and at intermediate<br />

supports of a continuous girder of a bridge specified in Section 16.5 (2).<br />

(4) When a tall bearing support is used for Class B bridges specified in Section 2.3,<br />

special consideration, including the introduction of a structure for protecting the<br />

superstructure from subsidence as specified in Section 16.4, shall be given.<br />

16.2 Seat Length<br />

(1) The seating length of a girder at its support shall not be less than the value obtained<br />

from Equation (16.2.1). In the case where the length is shorter than that obtained<br />

from Equation (16.2.2), the design seating length shall not be less than the value<br />

from the latter equation. When the direction of soil pressure acting on the<br />

substructure differs from the longitudinal direction to the bridge axis, as in cases of<br />

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