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Excessive Long-Time Deflections of Prestressed Box Girders. II: Numerical Analysis and Lessons Learned
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: As a sequel to Part I, which clarified the causes of the unexpectedly large deflections of the Koror-Babeldaob Bridge in the Pacific island nation of Palau, Part II presents the numerical procedure and reviews the lessons ...
Excessive Long-Time Deflections of Prestressed Box Girders. I: Record-Span Bridge in Palau and Other Paradigms
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The segmental prestressed concrete box girder of Koror-Babeldaob (KB) Bridge in Palau, which had a record span of 241 m (791 ft), presents a striking paradigm of serviceability loss because of excessive multidecade ...