DMRB: Highway Structures and Bridges CD 365 Revision 1 Portal and cantilever signs/signals gantries (formerly BD 51/14, IAN 193/16, BE 7/04). Revision 1

Publication Year

2020

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Presents the design criteria and considerations for portal and cantilever sign and/or signal gantries for use over highways. Covers gantry type selection, risk assessment, design principles, appearance, limit state design, actions, performance for passively safe gantries, gantries with permanent maintenance access, dynamically sensitive gantry, equipment and cabling.

Document History

Supersedes CD 365 Highway structures and bridges. Design. Portal and cantilever signs/signals gantries (formerly BD 51/14, IAN 193/16, BE 7/04) (HE, 2019) and BD 51/14 Highway structures: Design (substructures and special structures) materials. Special structures. Portal and cantilever sign/signal gantries (HA, 2014), IAN 193/16 Requirements for the provision of access arrangements on gantries (HE, 2016), and BE 7/04 Highway structures: Design (substructures and special structures) material. Special structures. Departmental standard (interim) motorway sign/signal gantries (HA, 2004). Design manual for roads and bridges (DMRB). Revision 0 - dated March 2019 - replaces BD 51/14, IAN 196/16 and BE 7/04. Revision 1 - dated March 2020 - updates references.

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