Question 6.10: Repairs need to be made to the left side of the bridge. Ther...

Repairs need to be made to the left side of the bridge. Therefore, the contractors want to store materials and equipment on the right half. The resulting distributed load on the girder will be rather large. Before authorizing the contractor to use the bridge for storage, we should check the adequacy of the splice. To do that, we need to know the resulting moment generated at the splice. Let’s use the influence line we created in Example 6.3.