Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (English Edition): Recent submissions
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Experimental Study of a Wind Field in a Long-span Bridge Site Located in Mountainous Valley Terrain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The Baling River Bridge is a long-span bridge located in a special mountainous area. The site has a very complicated wind field that is representative of many cases in west China. A terrain model that simulates the practical ... -
Pounding Responses of an Expansion Joint in a Curved Ramp Bridge under Earthquake Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Kelvin contact element was used to simulate the collision between expansion joints at the pier and the abutment. The purpose was to investigate the pounding responses of the expansion joint in a curved ramp bridge under ... -
Field Experimental Study on Mechanical Effect of Invert Construction for Shallow Embedded Underwater Highway Tunnel
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Field measurements were performed by closely tracking the invert construction states of the Liuyanghe tunnel. Based on measurement data, the mechanical effect of the invert construction was analyzed for the shallow embedded ... -
Calculating the Vertical Bearing Capacity of Piles with Nonlinear Load Transfer Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Based on existing methods used in evaluating the vertical bearing capacity of piles, hyperbola model was adopted to describe pile shaft resistance in consideration of the nonlinear behavior of load transfer along pile ... -
Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Bearing Capacity of Head-on Cross Section of Tubular Core Slab Considering the Function of Tubes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)To understand profoundly the structural performance of tubular core slabs inside which GBF high-strength thin-wall pipes (GBF is abbreviation of “high-strength”, “thin-wall” and “composite” in Chinese) are placed, the ... -
Research on GIS-based Highway Safety Assessment Techniques
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Based on a brief introduction to Highway Safety Assessment (HSA) techniques and the application of a geographic information system (GIS) in highway safety, this study expounded on the necessity and feasibility of the ... -
Dynamic Analysis of a Continuous Box Girder with Corrugated Steel Webs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Recently, most of the researcher studies mainly focused on the dynamic analysis of the simply supported box girders with corrugated steel webs. Little work about the dynamic analysis of the continuous box girders with ... -
Experimental Study on the Mechanical Performance of the Interface between Concrete Pavement and Lean Concrete Base Treated with Different Bond-breaking Layers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This research explored the variation in the bond-breaking effect with a variety of bond-breaking layers installed between concrete pavement surface slabs and lean concrete base to determine the parameters for the structural ... -
Research on a Map-matching Method for a GNSS-based ETC System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper describes a new definition of a map on the on-board unit (OBU) side as well as a new map-matching method for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system. Key points ... -
Study on a Test Data Validation Method for Asphalt Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)To establish a test data validation methodology for asphalt pavements as well as to explore and monitor the data calculation process for false data identification, data validation methods, such as abnormal data recognition, ... -
Fatigue Properties of Asphalt Mixtures at Broad Stress Ratio Conditions with Improved S−N Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The applicability of the Sigmoidal Function to describe the fatigue law of asphalt mixtures at broad stress ratio conditions was examined. This application aimed to avoid the inaccessibility of the segment function. It ... -
Analysis of the Temperature Effect of Piers with Concrete-filled Steel Tubes under Cold Currents
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The temperature distribution of high piers with concrete-filled steel tubes (CFST) is investigated by continuously observing the temperature distribution of Labajin Bridge in Ya’an-Lugu expressway. Mathematical statistical ... -
Analysis of the Improvement Effect of Expansive Soil through the Soil-water Characteristic Curve
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This study aims to establish the relationship between the theory of unsaturated soil and the corresponding engineering problem by using the soil-water characteristic curve to determine the improvement effect of expansive ... -
Bending Fatigue Test and Interlayer Pavement Models for Beams of Asphalt Mixture
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The fatigue life of composite beam samples were measured by flexural fatigue test under different bonding oil contents, temperatures, and loads. The measurement was conducted to study the influence of interlayer contact ... -
Computation Method for Fatigue Strain in a Long-span Steel Bridge Asphalt Pavement by Using the Three-hierarchy Structure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)To derive the strain formulas of fatigue design for a steel bridge asphalt pavement, the three-hierarchy structure, which includes simplified models of plane bending strain for a full bridge, transverse flexural-tensile ... -
Internal Force Changes in the Failure Process of Existing Reinforced Concrete Arch Ribs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Experimental results were studied in detail for an existing reinforced concrete arch rib. Based on the static and modal experimental results, its stiffness was not reduced consistently, although it demonstrated fluctuation. ... -
Aseismic Dynamic Reliability Research on Highway Soil-retaining Structures Based on Seismic Response Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)In this paper, a simple numerical deterministic approach for the analysis of the dynamic reliability of structures under stationary random seismic action was proposed. The method was based on the general finite element ... -
Study on Heat Insulation of Diatomite Asphalt Concrete in Permafrost Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)A key problem in road construction in cold regions is keeping permafrost stable, a requirement that cannot be satisfied by common asphalt concrete pavement. In this study, experiments on the thermal conductivity of diatomite ... -
Method for Identifying Bridge Collapse Pattern: Theoretical Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)A method for identifying the collapse patterns of continuous girder bridges and single-pylon cable-stayed bridges was developed on the basis of the limit analysis theorem. First, collapse models of continuous girder bridges ... -
Equivalent Conversion Method of Asphalt Pavement Axle-load Skid-resistance Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)First, the axle-load skid-resistance conversion formula of asphalt pavement was established in accordance with the equivalent principle of skid-resistance performance attenuation which is similar to the way of axle-load ...