##### Structures Manual

FDOT Structures Design Office

605 Suwannee Street

Tallahassee, FL 32399

www.dot.state.fl.us/structures

Welcome to the “Structures Manual.”

This manual is intended to serve as a reference aid for designers and detailers who design structures for the Florida Department of Transportation.

The “Structures Manual” is a html web based manual that provides the user with easy navigation, hyperlink, indexing, and search capabilities via a standard web browser. The manual is accessible via the Structures FDOT Internet Website or as a download that will copy all relevant files to a local or server based directory. Links to resources outside of the control of the FDOT Structures Design Office access the default web page of other FDOT offices.

The “Structures Manual” consists of the following:

Structures Components

An index of design references organized by structural component (deck, beam, piles, etc.), with references and links to:

- AASHTO Design Specifications

- Structures Design Guidelines

- Structures Detailing Manual

- Plans Preparation Manual

- Soils and Foundation Handbook

- Post Tensioning Volumes

- MSE Wall Handbook

- Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction

- Structures Standard Drawings.

- Structures Design Office Engineering Programs

Volume 1 - Structures Design Guidelines.

Exceptions to AASHTO Design criteria in a searchable HTML format. A PDF version is available for formatted printing.

Volume 2 - Structures Detailing Manual.

Drafting and detailing criteria used for preparing contract plans for structural elements provided in searchable HTML format. A PDF version is available for formatted printing.

Volume 3 - Detailing Examples & Preferred Details.

Example drawings of the criteria in Volumes 1, 2, and conceptual preferred details provided in MicroStation DGN and/or PDF format.

Volume 4 - Structures Standard Drawings

Structures Design Office Standard Drawings provided in MicroStation DGN and PDF format.

Volume 5 - LRFD Design Examples

LRFD Bridge Design examples in PDF format and links to Internet downloadable interactive Mathcad Workbook format.

Volume 6 - QPL Acceptance Criteria

Criteria for evaluating products for approval and use by the Florida Department of Transportation.

Volume 7 – Design Structural Aids

Spreadsheets and Mathcad files for estimating and designing structures.

Volume 8 - FDOT Supplement to Load and Resistance Factor Rating (LRFR)

Volume 9 - Miscellaneous Guidelines (available in future release).

Design criteria for Sign, Signal & Lighting Structures and Sound Barriers.

Volume 10- Facilities Design Manual

Criteria for planning and designing Architectural facilities such as maintenance buildings, weigh stations, rest-areas, etc.

For a summary of SDG changes or revisions, see the SDG Release Memorandum.

For Interim Guidelines, see SDO Temporary Bulletins.

Email suggestions, comments or questions to Structures Design Office.

Disclaimer

While we have attempted to gather the necessary references and data required to perform the typical design work of the Structures Design Office, it is the user’s responsibility and obligation to comply with all regulations and requirements including those that may have been omitted in this Manual. The Florida Department of Transportation makes no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the documentation, function, or performance of the information or programs contained or described in this manual.