Abstract: Recently observed increases in the numbers of permitted and illegal overweight trucks travelling over U.S. highways have raised concerns over their contributions to the reduction in the service lives of pavements and bridges ...

Abstract: Local effects on the shear connection of composite girders induced by longitudinal actions such as the anchorages of prestressing cables, concrete shrinkage, or a uniform thermal action on the slab are analyzed. Closed-form ...

Abstract: Current emphasis on evaluating the resilience of civil communities to various natural and man-made hazards has required expanding the scale of structural analysis problems from performing deterministic analysis of isolated ...

Abstract: Performance-based design and system-level assessment methods are becoming the preferred approaches for evaluating the safety of structures. This is particularly important for highway bridges where, because of their exposure ...

Abstract: A significant number of recent highway bridge failures have been attributed to the lack of financial resources that constrained owners to keep bridges in service under undesired circumstances. Given that many highway bridge ...

Abstract: A significant number of recent highway bridge failures have been attributed to the lack of financial resources that constrained owners to keep bridges in service under undesired circumstances. Given that many highway bridge ...

Abstract: This paper describes the procedure recommended in two specific standards to define and quantify structural redundancy using a direct analysis of bridges. The procedure is illustrated using two typical bridge configurations. ...

Abstract: This paper deals with visual servoing for 6-degree-of-freedom robot manipulators, and considers the problem of establishing whether and how it is possible to reach the desired location while ...