Abstract: In the planning process of a new road network, the planner should consider possible locations of bridges and tunnels. The selection of the best alignment imposes the need to investigate the effect of the location of each ...

Abstract: With the rapidly increasing requirements of bridge maintenance and the limited budget available for this maintenance, the cost optimization of long-term maintenance strategy considering the network-level bridge system under ...

Abstract: On-site collision tests of full-scale concrete barriers are an important method to understand what happens to concrete barriers when vehicles collide with them. However, such tests require both time and money, so modeling ...

Abstract: Because the cost of steel bridges in Japan is generally estimated using the price per unit weight, bridge designers and fabricators are required to decrease the steel weight of the bridge. This results in increasing the ...

Abstract: The pseudodynamic test is increasingly being used for testing structures under seismic loads. Due to the limited capacity of available equipment and also to economic reasons, testing is often required to be carried out on ...

Abstract: In existing bridge management systems, the information on one stage in the life cycle of a bridge is not efficiently used in other stages, which results in much waste in time and effort. In this paper, a new type of bridge ...