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Often engineers and maintenance personnel are faced with a serious problem in the maintenance of bridges due to excessive settlement of approach embankments near bridge abutments, causing bumps at the ends of the bridges. These settlements result from loading-induced and sometimes wetting-induced strains...
This report discusses the design and implementation of surcharging technology and the required laboratory, field, and engineering evaluations. It is hoped that such information will provide a more consistent and technically defensible rationale for deploying this technology on highway projects constructed...
