Humboldt

Special Interest

Site visit. Six PEER researchers met in Eureka on Fri 16 Aug 2002. We viewed the underside of the bridge from the deck of the historic MV Madaket, and later examined the abutments. Caltrans' Richard Mullen and Jeff Bowser joined us. Richard later provided as-built information. A collection of digital photos is available for download.

For information about the Humboldt Bay Bridge testbed, please see the testbed managers' webpage. This page contains supplementary and summary information.

Page Contents

	Summary description
	List of available data files

Summary Description

The subject bridge is the Middle Channel Bridge, one of three crossing Humboldt Bay on California State Route 255. It is located at 40.814N x 124.158W (location of CSMIP instrument 89735). The other two bridges are the Eureka Channel Bridge (40.809N x 124.154W, CSMIP 89736) and the Somoa Channel Bridge (40.822N x 124.169W, CSMIP 89686). The bridge (no 04-0229) is a 330m, nine-span composite bridge built in 1972. In 1992, it carried average daily traffic of 4,600 to 15,800.

Available Data Files

Notes:
Meeting presentations are located on the Meetings page.
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Hazard and sensors	Design	Photos, PEER reports, etc.
SOMERVILLE	CALTRANS
Somerville report on Humboldt ground motions	Geotechnical studies (1)	Draft bridge DVs
Ground motion README	Geotechnical studies (2)	Aug-16 site-visit photos
Somerville paper on near-fault ground motions	Geotechnical studies (3)	Report outline
2%/50 yr longit. motions	Geotechnical studies (4)	Table for comparing current practice with PEER approach
2%/50 yr longit. plots	Seismic Design Criteria (SDC) Abstract
2%/50 yr transv. motions	SDC
10%/50 yr longit. motions	SDC Memo to Designers 20-1
10%/50 yr longit. plots	SDC Memo to Designers 20-1 Attachment 1
10%/50 yr transv. motions
50%/50 yr longit. motions
50%/50 yr longit. plots
50%/50 yr transv. motions
Unscaled 2%/50 yr longit.
Unscaled 10%/50yr longit
Unscaled 50%/50yr longit
SENSORS
CSMIP 89509 Eureka
CSMIP 89686 Samoa Ch
CALTRANS HAZARD
Caltrans seismic hazard map
Caltrans seismic hazard map report