Abstract: The local instability of steel plates is the predominant seismic failure mode for steel bridge piers. However, the application of shell-based finite-element (FE) models in an engineering design presents significant ...

Abstract: To evaluate the residual service performance of corroded high-tensile steel wires, a batch of in situ wires that had served for 13 years in the hangers of an arch bridge was investigated. Four types of corroded wires were ...

Abstract: Environmental corrosion and cyclic dynamic loadings are the main causes of cable failures. In the degradation process of cables, the effects of corrosion and cyclic loading are coupled and the corrosion rate is time ...