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A -- DEVELOPMENT OF RESISTANCE FACTORS FROM FHWA DATA BASES SOL DTFH61-98-Q-00050 DUE 032098 POC Viola Compton, Contract Specialist, HAM-40G, (202)366-4239 The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to negotiate with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell to conduct a study on the "Development of Resistance Factors from FHWA Databases." This study includes an extensive review of the general and deep foundations sections of the Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for Highway Bridge Substructures manual and the Deep Foundation Load Test Database (DFLTD) with emphasis on identifying database design, data retrieval and data manipulation issues affecting the use of the DFLTD for calibration. The unique research site, containing all of the structure performance and ground data necessary for this study, makes the University of Massachusetts at Lowell uniquely qualified. This is a Simplified Acquisition and the anticipated award date is on or about March 20, 1998. (0048)

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