Assessment

March 12, 2024

DMRB CS 453 – The assessment of highway bridge supports

Access free from the DMRB website. Also available from CIS. This document contains the prioritisation, the loading (including broad principles for its application) and some specific […]
March 12, 2024

DMRB CS 454 – Assessment of highway bridges and structures

Access free from the DMRB website. Also available from CIS. The use of this document enables the structural safety and serviceability of highway bridges and structures […]
March 12, 2024

DMRB CD 370 – Cathodic protection for use in reinforced concrete highway structures

Access free from the DMRB website. Also available from CIS. The content of this document is based on that of BA 83/02, re-written to make it […]
March 12, 2024

Technical Memorandum (Bridges) BE 1/73 (1st Edition) – Reinforced concrete for Highway Structures (and Amendment No 1)

This Memorandum supersedes Technical Memorandum (Bridges) BE 1/73 issued in January 1973 and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1969 Edition of the […]
March 12, 2024

Technical Memorandum (Bridges) BE 1/77 Standard Highway Loadings

This Technical Memorandum is a revision of BE 5/73: Standard Highway Loadings and is closely based on B116/2 draft loading requirements as consistent with the current […]
March 12, 2024

Technical Memorandum (Bridges) BE 2/73 – Prestressed concrete for Highway Structures

This Memorandum supersedes Technical Memorandum BE 20 and Interim Memoranda IM2, 3 and 8 and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1969 Edition […]
March 12, 2024

DMRB BD 97/12 – The Assessment of Scour and Other Hydraulic Actions at Highway Structures

Access free from the DMRB website. Also available from CIS. Scour of foundations by the action of water is a major cause of bridge collapse, and […]
March 12, 2024

DMRB BE 5/75 – Rules for the Design and Use of Freyssinet Concrete Hinges in Highway Structures

Access free from the DMRB website. This Technical Memorandum in Metric Units replaced the Ministry of Transport Memorandum No. 577/1 published by HMSO in 1966. It […]
March 12, 2024

BE 13 – Fatigue risk in Bailey Bridges

Access free from the DMRB website. The Military Engineering Experimental Establishment has drawn the Department’s attention to the possibility of fatigue failure occurring in the main […]