Abstract: Recently observed increases in the numbers of permitted and illegal overweight trucks travelling over U.S. highways have raised concerns over their contributions to the reduction in the service lives of pavements and bridges ...

Abstract: Performance-based design and system-level assessment methods are becoming the preferred approaches for evaluating the safety of structures. This is particularly important for highway bridges where, because of their exposure ...

Abstract: A significant number of recent highway bridge failures have been attributed to the lack of financial resources that constrained owners to keep bridges in service under undesired circumstances. Given that many highway bridge ...

Abstract: This paper describes the procedure recommended in two specific standards to define and quantify structural redundancy using a direct analysis of bridges. The procedure is illustrated using two typical bridge configurations. ...