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Generally, Center of truck wheels must be at least 2’ (600mm) from the edge of a design lane and 1’
(300mm) from the deck overhang. Minimum tail to nose distance between two successive trucks in a lane
is 50’ (15m).
AASHTO HL-93 Truck Tire Plan
For Truck and Tandem, the design contact area of tyre is assumed to be a single rectangle of with 20”
(510mm) and length 10” (250mm). The tyre pressure is assumed to be uniform over the contact area.
To obtain maximum negative moments, a pair of tandems should be considered, spaced at 8.0m to
12.0m along with design lane load to produce worse hogging effect. Code doesn’t specify maximum
number of tandems that can be considered in a lane, nor it does explicitly specify minimum tandem to
tandem distance.
AASHTO HL-93 Tandem Tire Plan
Impact factor or dynamic load allowance is applied only for trucks and tandems, not for lane loading. The
governing design force shall be taken as the larger of the following:
1. The effect of the design tandem + the design lane load;
2. The effect of one design truck (HL93) + the effect of the design lane load;
3. For hogging moment between inflection points, 90% of the effect of 2 nos. design trucks (HL93 with
4.3m axle spacing) spaced at a minimum of 15m. combined with 90% of the design lane load.
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