Railroad Bridge Inspection and Repair: Federal Railroad Administration Bridge Safety Standards #49 CFR, Railroad Bridge Inspection, Hurricane Irene Repairs, Bridge Restoration, Construction Defects Analysis, Seismic and Landslide Hazards Inspection

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Structural Integrity Investigation, Inspection, Reinforcement, & Restoration

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Railroad Bridges: Required Annual Structural Integrity

Inspection (FRA #49 CFR, Bridge Safety Standards) for Construction Defects, Foundation Failures, and Seismic Hazards Determinations, plus Design, Construction, Reinforcement, Restoration, Reconstruction, and Replacement Services by Civil Engineers and Other Scientists and Engineers

Hurricane Irene has washed out or severely damaged many hundreds of bridges (road and railroad) from North Carolina to New England. Tropical Storm Lee and an October snowstorm did additional damage. The Virginia and Oklahoma earthquakes may have caused some subtle, unseen damage to many bridges near the epicenters.. These bridges must be inspected and replaced, or reliably repaired in order for vital commuting and other travel to be able to resume.

President Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union address and other speeches and news conferences, has urged government funding of at least $75 billion for the repair, reconstruction, and replacement of aging and deteriorating bridges, highways, and other infrastructure in the United States. He emphasized this need in his 2011 Jobs Speeches, where he called for $447 billion in new spending, much of which is directed toward infrastructure repair.

The I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota and the devastating earthquakes in Japan, Haiti, China, Chile, and New Zealand, underscore the need for preventative inspections, reinforcement, and restoration of bridges and other infrastructure throughout the U.S. and around the world that are in danger of failure or collapse.

A 2-hour History Channel program, entitled The Crumbling of America (aired January 16, 2011), addressed the many threats that our deteriorating bridges, highways, dams, levees, water delivery systems, sewage systems, and power grids pose to our lives and our way of life in our nation.

The Federal Railroad Administration has published a set of requirements for annual inspections of all railroad bridges in the United States: Bridge Safety Standards, No. 49 CFR, Parts 213 and 237, Department of Transportation. For the complete text of this publication, go to http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-19367.pdf

Once these regulations are implemented, every railroad bridge in the United States will be required to be inspected annually for structural defects and compliance with load capacity regulations.

Many of the railroad bridges referred to below are suspension bridges, including numerous older suspension bridges whose cable strength has decreased over the years by 5% to 15% because of corrosion of steel and other components, plus general metal fatigue. These factors are frequently compounded today by greater traffic loads (more vehicles and heavier vehicles on the bridge at one time) than those for which the bridges were originally designed. Some of these bridges are in danger of sudden catastrophic collapse. Many others may need to be totally closed in order to prevent an imminent collapse, with major loss of life, as occurred in the sudden catastrophic collapse of the I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minnesota in 2007.

Structural Integrity Solutions, Inc. offers independent structural integrity investigations and inspections for the determination of construction defects, foundation failures, and seismic hazards, to comply with the Federal Railroad Administration's Bridge Safety Standards, outlined three paragraphs above.

We also arrange for the repair, reinforcement, rehabilitation, overhaul, restoration, reconstruction, demolition, replacement, and other remedial services for many of the structures found to be defective or in danger of collapse. In addition, we offer design of new bridges and other structures and facilities. These include, but are not limited to. the items listed below.

Structures and facilities:

Bridges, railroad - spanning water, such as rivers, lakes, channels, and bays.
Bridges, railroad - spanning highways, roads, and land features, such as canyons.
Bridges, road and highway - spanning water, such as rivers, lakes, channels, and bays.
Bridges, road and highway - spanning roads and land features, such as canyons.
Bridges, aircraft - runways and taxiways that are bridged across roads and railroads - many of which carry larger, heavier aircraft today than those for which the bridges were originally designed.
Bridges, pedestrian.
Approaches to bridges - road and railroad.
Tunnels - road, railroad, and pedestrian.
Elevated highways, freeways, city streets, and other roads.
Elevated railroad tracks.
Elevated railroad tracks, worn down by weather, land subsidence and liquefaction, earthquakes, and years of train travel .

Elevated railroad tracks that were not originally designed for today's heavy trains.

New high-speed railroad tracks, especially tracks spanning bridges.
Elevated railways.
Elevated roadways.
Elevated walkways.
Numerous other structures and facilities.

The defects and hazards include, but are not limited to:

Faulty, shoddy, or generally poor original construction.
Construction that met building and seismic codes at the time of the original construction, but which have deteriorated over the years or were damaged or weakened by fire, weather, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, ground subsidence, landslides, avalanches, or blasts (including sonic booms and nearby demolitions). Some railroad bridges date back to before 1850.
Corrosion, over the years, of suspension cables and other structural bridge components - seriously compromising the structural integrity of the bridge.
Foundation failures of bridges and other structures, resulting from corrosion, earthquakes, subsidence, liquefaction, ground shifts, tsunamis, and/or gradual deterioration of materials from water currents and weather.
Landslides: threats; slides that have occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the structure.
Damage caused by terrorist attacks, or hidden damage caused by sabotage or by attempted sabotage that appeared at first to have failed.
Corrosion, over the years, of underground and above-ground natural gas, water supply, and sewer pipes and conduits.
Asbestos that may be present in some structures.

Lead in bridge structures or in pipes serving bridges or bridge abutments. Included are bridge foundations under water from which toxic lead or lead compounds could be leaking into the water body.

Earthquake faults and potential for major shaking or permanent ground deformation.

Proximity of a structure to earthquake faults and soil vulnerable to magnified shaking.

Earthquake faults that may be creeping gradually, slowly distorting or offsetting bridge or railroad track alignment.

Potential for subsidence of the soil beneath a structure, including differential subsidence within a structure's footprint.

Services Offered: *

Structural integrity investigation into the status and conditions of railroad bridges and other bridges.
Structural integrity inspection of the bridge.
Structural integrity analysis for damage, deterioration, or corrosion over the years. Included are inspection and structural analysis of suspension cables of older bridges that are subject to metal fatigue and steel corrosion in critical suspension cables.
Construction defects determination.
Foundation failure determination.
Investigation of past accidents and incidents involving these bridges.

Investigation of catastrophic failure or major damage resulting from earthquakes, storms, or human-generated activities (terrorist attacks, sabotage, major accidents, etc.).

Seismic and landslide hazards determination and seismic safety analysis.

Tsunami hazard potential in coastal areas

Analysis of earthquake creep potential, and the resulting distortion or offset of bridges, railroad tracks, and roadways.

Repair of defects.

Mitigation, overhaul, or renovation - partial or total.

Asbestos removal, where applicable.

Lead removal and replacement with non-toxic substances.

Reinforcement and strengthening of the structure or facility.

Shoring up of the sides and ceilings of tunnels.

Restoration or reconstruction of the structure or facility.

Modernization of railroad bridges and approaches, as well as railroad tracks everywhere.

Protection against major flooding, where applicable.

Protection against maximum credible earthquake.

Protection against maximum credible storm surge or tsunami in coastal areas, where applicable.

Protection against major landslides and avalanches in mountainous or hilly areas, where applicable.

Protection against maximum credible wind event.

Demolition or removal of entire structure or facility.

Replacement of entire railroad bridge or other structure or facility.

Design and construction of new railroad bridges and other bridges, tunnels, railroads, highways, or public works infrastructure - U.S. and overseas.

Design and construction of new high-speed railroad tracks and railroad trains.

Research into improvement in the construction of various bridges, tunnels, railroads, highways, and public works infrastructure.

* NOTE: Structural Integrity Solutions, Inc. does not directly manage or supervise any services referred to another contractor, company, or agency. Clients are to deal directly and entirely with said referred company or companies for any and all referred services. Our corporation is not legally responsible for any of said referred services, and our corporation assumes no liability at any time - past, present, or future - for any projects, cases, jobs, work, tasks, or other services totally referred to other contractors, companies, or agencies.

For more information about these services and other programs:

Telephone: Structural Integrity Solutions, Inc.: (855) 625-8213,

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Timothy E. Wright, Executive Vice President and Treasurer:

1222 West, 630 South, Logan, UT 84321.