OVERHEAD SIGN STRUCTURES

SPAN SIGN STRUCTURES

AASHTO - Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume I)

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume II)

FDOT Structures Design Office – Engineering Programs

FDOT Structures Standard Drawings

FDOT Design Standards

Soils and Foundation Handbook

Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction

AASHTO - Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals (1994 Edition with Interim Specifications)

Section 1 General Features of Design

Section 2 Loads

Section 3 Methods of Analysis

Section 4 Steel Design

Section 8 Foundations

Section 9 Details of Design

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume I)

7.2.1 Signing and/or Pavement Marking - Design Criteria

7.2.2 Wind Loading Criteria - Signs

7.5 Foundation Design

29.1 Design of Overhead Sign Structures and Foundations

For current Plans Preparation Manual:

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/rddesign/PPM Manual/PPM.htm

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume II)

17.3 Other Soil Surveys

23.7 Sign Supports

For current Plans Preparation Manual:

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/rddesign/PPM Manual/PPM.htm

FDOT Structures Design Office – Engineering Programs

Span Overhead Sign Program

Flange Plate (Custom chords) (Mathcad)

Drilled Shaft Design for Sign and Signal Structures (Mathcad)

FB-Pier (UF Bridge Software Institute)

FDOT Structures Standard Drawings

2010 Span Sign Structure – Notes, Isometric View DGN I PDF

Span Sign Structure – Connection Details, Base Plate DGN

Span Sign Structure – Truss Elevation DGN

Span Sign Structure – Truss Details DGN

Span Sign Structure – Splice Connection, Drilled Shaft DGN

S-2011 Tables of Span Sign Structure Variables DGN I PDF

FDOT Design Standards

11037 Aluminum & Steel Overhead Sign Structures

13417 Mounting Exit Numbering Panels to Highway Signs

17505 External Lighting for Signs (Mercury Vapor)

Soils and Foundation Handbook

3.2.2.6 High Mast Lighting, Strain Poles and Sign Structures

Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction

Section 700 Highway Signing

Section 962-9.3 Steel Sign Supports and Accessories

For current specifications: http://www.dot.state.fl.us/specificationsoffice/