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Selection of informative monitoring techniques for bridge-performance evaluations

Decisions regarding the management of civil infrastructure are becoming more crucial as a large share of bridges is presently approaching what is often considered to be the end of their theoretical service duration. Evaluating existing structures using a d ...

Trinity College2023

Vibration Serviceability Assessment for Pedestrian Bridges Based on Model Falsification

Ian Smith

With the development of new materials and advanced structural analysis, alongside increasing aesthetic requirements, recent years have witnessed a trend toward longer, taller, and lighter footbridges. Different from vehicular bridges, footbridges carry rel ...

2021

Fatigue Damage Factor Calibration for Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge Decks

Alain Nussbaumer, José Joaquim Costa Branco de Oliveira Pedro, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista

Part 2 of the Eurocode 3 (EN 1993-2) proposes a straight forward fatigue verification method using a single heavy vehicle model (FLM3) and a damage equivalent factor, lambda, to represent the fatigue damaging effects of the real traffic on road bridges. Th ...

SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND AG2019

Intralaminar fracture of unidirectional carbon/epoxy composite: experimental results and numerical analysis

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

Fracture of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) is dominated by large scale fiber bridging which acts as a very important toughening mechanism. The objective of this paper is to investigate the intralaminar Mode I fracture in a unidirectional CFRP com ...

Elsevier2016

Specimen thickness dependence of large scale fiber bridging in mode I interlaminar fracture of carbon epoxy composite

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Ebrahim Farmand Ashtiani

Large scale bridging is an important toughening mechanism in composite laminates that depends on the specimen geometry as well as the constituent materials. In this work, an iterative approach is applied to identify the effect of specimen thickness on trac ...

Elsevier2015

Christian Menn's recent bridge designs - Reducing structural elements to the simplest solution

Eugen Brühwiler

The conceptual designs by Christian Menn of four landmark bridges are presented: 1) a 350-m span cable-stayed bridge with jointless deck girder, 2) a cable-stayed bridge with a single “spindle-shaped” pylon, 3) a bridge with an arch reaching high above the ...

CRC Press2009

Time domain simulation of soil-foundation-structure interaction in non-uniform soils

Matthias Preisig

Presented here is a numerical investigation of the influence of non-uniform soil conditions on a prototype concrete bridge with three bents (four span) where soil beneath bridge bents are varied between stiff sands and soft clay. A series of high-fidelity ...

2009

Punching shear strength of R/C bridge cantilever slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Rui Vaz Rodrigues

This paper presents the results of six tests on R/C bridge cantilever slabs without shear reinforcement subjected to concentrated loading. The specimens represent actual deck slabs of box-girder bridges scaled 3/4. They were 10mlong with a clear cantilever ...

Engineering structures2008

Large Scale Tests on Bridge Slabs Cantilevers Subjected to Traffic Loads

Aurelio Muttoni, Olivier Burdet, Rui Vaz Rodrigues

To improve the reduced available experimental data on the load capacity of full scale bridge deck slabs, 3 tests on a large scale bridge cantilever (10 x 4.2 m) were done. The cantilevers were tested under 4, 2 and 1 concentrated loads simulating traffic w ...

Proceedings of the 2nd fib Congress2006

Supply and Demand System Approach to Developing Bridge Management Strategies (Comparison with Two Existing Approaches)

Eugen Brühwiler, Bryan Adey

Optimal management strategies for a group of bridges that may incur damage from flooding during a 15-year period were determined using three approaches, and then the strategies were compared. The three approaches are the supply and demand system approach a ...

2003

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