Abstract: Recently, numerous studies have highlighted that the climate worldwide is changing rapidly due to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The average ambient temperatures across Canada are rising approximately twice as ...

Abstract: Throughout their service life, bridges are exposed to ambient actions and environmental influences such as wind, thermal, and snow loads. Bridge design for environmental actions is currently based on observed, historical ...

Abstract: Finite-element and finite-difference solutions to different forms of the Richards equation can exhibit stability problems as well as mass balance errors. These problems are more pronounced for sharp wetting fronts in soils ...

Abstract: Bridge codes tend to provide general guidance on the thermal gradients acting on bridge decks based on data from historical extreme events that have occurred within a country, without considering the location of the bridge ...

Abstract: The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is typically assumed to be constant in RC bridge design. In fact, under freezing temperatures, the CTE of concrete exhibits hysteretic nonlinear response, which, however, is rarely ...