Question: 2 4 points: You are building a bridge across a 4 0 ' low water crossing to serve a client. The bridge is to be

24 points: You are building a bridge across a 40' low water crossing to serve a client. The bridge is to be 16 feet wide, and must be able to support a full, 10-yard concrete truck (72 kips ). The bridge will be made of four, parallel, thick-walled, A441 steel pipes supported by four-foot thick, 16' wide and 6-foot tall reinforced, concrete abutments at each end of the bridge. Assume uniform distribution of load/stress over the four pipes. Also assume the pipes will undergo only pure bending (no torsion) and the working stress of each pipe is 30 ksi . No middle support is desired. The bridge will be planked with 16'-4''4'' treated posts and 28 treated lumber. Show all work.
a. Design the pipe size for this bridge (exclude the contributions of planking.) Note, you should use the attached Round HSS look-up Tables.
2 4 points: You are building a bridge across a 4

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