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Apr 26, 2012
Kings Covered Bridge Rehabilitation, Somerset County, PA
Authors: William J. Collins [email protected], David C. Fischetti [email protected], Arnold M. Graton, Jr. [email protected], Len Lichvar [email protected], Branden Diehl [email protected], James P. Wacker [email protected], Ed Cesa [email protected], Ed Stoltz [email protected], Emory L. Kemp, Ph.D. [email protected], Samer H. Petro [email protected], Leon Buckwalter [email protected], and John McNarmaraAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Structures Congress 2005: Metropolis and Beyond
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Kings Covered Bridge over Laurel Creek in Somerset County, Pennsylvania is approximately 114-foot clear span multiple Kingpost Truss with nail-laminated arches. This timber bridge is historically significant because it retains its original features of the 1860's since the 1930s when it was spared from modernization by the construction of an adjacent steel highway bridge for vehicular traffic. Since that time Kings Bridge has a colorful history, including use as livestock barn and a proposed new use as a part of a "twin covered bridge" municipal park. Kings Bridge remains a museum-quality artifact. The bridge is currently supported by a temporary steel queenpost truss system pending full rehabilitation. The rehabilitation strategy for Kings Bridge is to minimize interventions, repair in-place, and to replace deteriorated members in-kind where possible. This paper documents the rehabilitation of Kings Bridge as of November 1, 2004. An updated presentation of the existing timber conditions; structural analysis; and final rehabilitation design will be presented at the ASCE Structures Congress in April 2005. Rehabilitation construction will begin fall 2005. The rehabilitation funding for Kings Bridge is 100% federal through the National Covered Bridge and the Transportation Enhancements programs.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Arch bridges
- Architectural engineering
- Bridge engineering
- Bridge management
- Bridges
- Bridges (by material)
- Bridges (by type)
- Building management
- Construction engineering
- Construction methods
- Covered bridges
- Maintenance and operation
- Rehabilitation
- Span bridges
- Steel bridges
- Structural engineering
- Truss bridges
- Wood bridges
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Principal, Simone Jaffe Collins Inc. Landscape Architecture (SJC), 511 Old Lancaster Rd., Berwyn, PA 19312,. E-mail: [email protected]
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President, DCF Engineering Inc., PO Box 879, Cary, NC (DCF). E-mail: [email protected]
Arnold M. Graton Associates (AMG), 385 Scenic View, Ashland, NH 03217. E-mail: [email protected]
Southern Alleghenies Conservancy (SAC), 702 West Pitt St., Fairlawn Court, Suite 8, Bedford, PA 15522. E-mail: [email protected]
Southern Alleghenies Conservancy (SAC), 702 West Pitt St., Fairlawn Court, Suite 8, Bedford, PA 15522. E-mail: [email protected]
USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53726. E-mail: [email protected]
USDA Forest Service Wood In Transportation Program (WIT), 180 Canfield Street, Morgantown, WV 26505. E-mail: [email protected]
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Project Mgr., Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Engineering Dist. 9-0, 1620 N. Juniata Street, Hollidaysburg, PA (DOT). E-mail: [email protected]
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Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, University, PO Box 6305, Morgantown, WV 26506. E-mail: [email protected]
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Gannett Fleming, Inc. (GF), 11 Commerce Drive, Suite 200, Morgantown, WV 26501. E-mail: [email protected]
Director, Alfred State College - Historic Restoration and Renovation Institute, SUNY (ASC) 2530 S. Brooklyn Avenue, Wellsville, NY 14895. E-mail: [email protected]
John McNarmara
Pres., McNamara Construction RD2 Box 169, Montrose, PA 18801
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