Abstract: Pier columns, as primary bridge supports, are vulnerable to extreme loading demands resulting from fire, vehicle collisions, and blasts. The combined effects of these demands may cause significant strength reduction, ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on levels of live-load lateral bending moment (bimoment) distribution in a horizontally curved steel I-girder bridge. Work centered primarily on the examination of (1) data from field testing of an ...

Abstract: Development and implementation of horizontally curved steel members, particularly curved plate girders utilized by the bridge industry for complicated site geometries, continue to occur, and material, analysis, and design ...

Abstract: Some of Louisiana’s bridges built in the 1950s and 1960s used two-girder or truss systems, in which transverse floor beams are carried by main longitudinal members and continuous (spliced) beams supporting the deck are ...

Abstract: Columns are the primary load-carrying components in the bridge, and column failure could initiate the collapse of the entire bridge. Estimates of residual axial capacity for round, bridge pier columns under combined vehicle ...

Abstract: This project examined several uncertainties of integral abutment bridge design and analysis through field-monitoring of an integral abutment bridge and three levels of numerical modeling. Field monitoring data from a ...

Abstract: The present study is designed to determine the effect of major parameters on maximum total bending moments of curved girders, establish the relationship between key parameters and girder distribution factors (GDFs), and ...

Abstract: Twenty-nine specimens were tested to investigate the fatigue resistance of high-performance steel (HPS-485W)

Abstract: There are currently two methods of production for A 709 Grade HPS-485W (70 W)—quenching and tempering (Q&T) and thermomechanical controlled processing (TMCP). The TMCP enables plates to be rolled in longer lengths than is ...