Abstract: This paper presents an efficient methodology to solve a fatigue reliability problem. The fatigue failure mechanism and its reliability assessment must be treated as a rate process since, in ...

Abstract: Movements and lateral earth pressure of integral abutment bridges are mainly affected by seasonal thermal variations. To investigate this aspect, a test bridge was constructed with integral abutments as stub type abutments ...

Abstract: A new method is presented for shape sensitivity analysis of a crack in a homogeneous, isotropic, and linear-elastic body subject to mode-I loading conditions. The method involves the material ...