Abstract: Fatigue cracks are prone to occur at the arc-shaped cutouts of the diaphragms in orthotropic steel deck bridges. Based on the crack-stop holes, the China-made ferrous-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) plates are employed ...

Abstract: Fatigue vehicle load is essential for fatigue analysis, whose accuracy is directly associated with fatigue design. With the development of society, traditional fatigue vehicle load may fail to reflect modern traffic ...