Abstract: This study deals with the mathematical and experimental determination of contact pressure distribution between bridge decks and truck tires. The variables associated with this study are tire inflation pressure, axle loads, ...

Abstract: This paper presents the experimental and theoretical characterizations of mechanical properties of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) wide flange and box beams. Static response of pultruded beams was studied by conducting ...

Abstract: Low‐volume road bridges are currently designed according to the same specifications as urban highway bridges. Thus, many of the low‐volume bridge designs are overly conservative and uneconomical. This paper addresses this ...

Abstract: Most of the badly deteriorated bridges in the United States are those built prior to the 1950s, and many of these are on low‐volume roads where they receive little attention. This paper deals with the use of value engineering ...

Abstract: Reinforced concrete structures deteriorate over time due to environmental aging, fatigue, and other reasons. Strengthening and rehabilitating those concrete structures by wrapping them with carbon fabric is one of several ...

Abstract: The fatigue response of concrete decks reinforced with fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) bars is critical to the long-term endurance of this type of innovative structure. To evaluate the degradation of FRP reinforced bridge ...

Abstract: The effects of immersing coupons of glass-reinforced epoxy in four different liquid media at two separate temperatures were investigated in this study which is aimed at examining the durability of fiber-reinforced plastics ...

Abstract: A warping solution for prismatic thin-walled orthotropic composite beams is presented. For beam-wall macroelements, the macro approach solution is applied to obtain the displacements as a sum of polynomial plus Fourier ...