Abstract: According to the 1986 U.S. Federal Highway Administration statistics, there are 575,607 bridges on the highway system. About half of these bridges are structurally deficient and/or functionally obsolete. To strengthen the ...

Abstract: Limited experimental results were reported in the literature on the behavior of prestressed composite girders subjected to negative bending moment. This paper examines experimentally the behavior of prestressed composite ...

Abstract: A method for the structural analysis of prestressed composite steel‐concrete girders was studied in this paper. The deflections, forces in the prestressing tendons, and strains in the steel beam and concrete slab of composite ...