Abstract: Due to the public expectation of better road performance accompanied by economic development and population growth over the past decades, state highway agencies have been under intense pressure for continuous improvement ...

Abstract: The elastic lateral buckling capacity of coped steel beams with various coping details is examined by conducting a theoretical parametric study using the elastic finite element program BASP. Cope length, cope depth, and ...

Abstract: In 1998 the New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department (NMSHTD) agreed to pay $60 million for a 20-year pavement warranty on their Route 44 project (NM 44, now US 550). The warranty includes a ceiling clause ...

Abstract: This paper studies the implication of the tendon modeling on the global response of tension leg platforms (TLPs) in general, and on the surge motion (low-frequency response) and the limits of the tendon forces (high-frequency ...