Abstract: AbstractThis paper highlights the limitations of current bridge design guidelines in accounting for dynamic loads caused by moving vehicles. The impact of bridge and vehicle parameters on the coupled vehicle–bridge system ...

Abstract: Experimental investigations reported in the literature have shown that pile foundations exhibit nonlinear behavior when subject to dynamic axial service loads. The nonlinear characteristics are attributed to soil remolding, ...

Abstract: The theoretical models currently reported in the literature idealize a uniformly tapered pile as a step-tapered pile to facilitate dynamic analysis. The step-taper idealization produces approximate solutions, which become ...