Journal of Bridge Engineering: Recent submissions
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Fatigue Stress Spectra and Reliability Evaluation of Short- to Medium-Span Bridges under Stochastic and Dynamic Traffic Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This study presents a novel approach to simulating the fatigue stress spectra of short- to medium-span bridges under stochastic and dynamic traffic loads. The stochastic traffic load is simulated based on the weigh-in-motion ... -
Experimental Study of Thermal Effects on a Long-Span Suspension Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Thermal performance analysis of long-span bridges is important for structural design and safety evaluation; however, its experimental investigation using measured field test data is still insufficient. In this article, ... -
Wind-Tunnel Experiments on Vortex-Induced Vibration of Rough Bridge Cables
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Surface roughness, ice accretion, and atmospheric turbulence are important issues because they can considerably alter the aerodynamic characteristics of bridge cables. The present study describes wind-tunnel experiments ... -
WIM-Based Live-Load Model for Advanced Analysis of Simply Supported Short- and Medium-Span Highway Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The accuracy of bridge system safety evaluations and reliability assessments obtained through refined structural analysis procedures depends on the proper modeling of traffic load effects. While the live-load models specified ... -
New Simplified Method for Designing Seismically Isolated Highway Bridges with Massive Piers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper proposes two new models for the simplified seismic analysis of seismically isolated highway bridges with massive piers. Both models include two components, one of which includes the superstructure mass, the ... -
Failure Investigation and Replacement Implementation of Short Suspenders in a Suspension Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Among components of a suspension bridge, suspenders transmit wind or live loads on the deck to the main cable, which are then transmitted to the pylons, and finally to the earth. Suspenders are vulnerable to corrosion ... -
Probabilistic Analysis of Prestress Loss due to Creep in Concrete Box Girders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The cross-section warping effect and warping-induced long-term prestress loss due to creep are investigated in this paper. Both phenomena were analyzed deterministically and stochastically. The random character of concrete ... -
New Method for Generating Strut-and-Tie Models of Three-Dimensional Concrete Anchorage Zones and Box Girders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The determination of a suitable strut-and-tie model (STM) of a number of disturbed three-dimensional (3D) domains is a challenging task. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a performance-based ground structure ... -
Experimental Study of UHPC Repair for Corrosion-Damaged Steel Girder Ends
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Corrosion of girder ends is a prevalent problem that significantly reduces the bearing capacity of bridges. Current repair methods are expensive and difficult to implement. A novel repair method was developed for steel ... -
Scour Monitoring System Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Water-Swellable Polymers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Bridge scour has emerged as a significant concern worldwide, especially in the United States; approximately 60% of bridge failures are scour related. Because of the difficulty of bridge-scour inspection, scour-induced ... -
Stress Analysis of Linear Elastic Nonprismatic Concrete-Encased Beams with Corrugated Steel Webs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The basic mechanical behavior of a nonprismatic concrete-encased beam with corrugated steel webs (CSWs) was investigated through a scale model experiment and finite-element model analysis. Because of the influence of ... -
Numerical Evaluation of Sea Salt Amounts Deposited on Bridge Girders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)It is important to evaluate the amount of airborne sea salt adhering to the structural members of a bridge for effective maintenance. This study sought to develop a method to estimate salt conditions on individual road ... -
Damping Behavior of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Cable with Self-Damping for Long-Span Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper studies the vibration characteristics and damping properties of a newly developed fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) cable with a self-damping function using a model vibration experiment. To verify the self-damping ... -
Early-Age Behavior of an Adjacent Prestressed Concrete Box-Beam Bridge Containing UHPC Shear Keys with Transverse Dowels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Adjacent precast prestressed concrete box-beam bridges have been used in the United States for many years and have performed well. However, the shear keys between adjacent box beams are susceptible to cracking, which can ... -
Using Dynamic Responses of Moving Vehicles to Extract Bridge Modal Properties of a Field Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The vehicles moving on a bridge excite bridge vibration and can also serve as response receivers because the vehicle dynamic response contains the vibration information of the bridge. A methodology was proposed in a previous ... -
Simplified Displacement Loading Patterns for Incorporation of Spatially Variable Ground Motions in Bridge Seismic Design Codes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper derives simplified differential displacement loading patterns, in lieu of spatially variable seismic excitations, for use in the seismic design of bridges, based on the displacement sets originally presented in ... -
Importance of Static Correction and Damping in the Analysis of a Cable-Stayed Bridge Subjected to Displacement Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Cable-stayed bridges with long spans are excited by different support vibrations on both sides of the main span. Therefore, a realistic seismic structural analysis of the bridge must involve multiple-support excitation. ... -
Static and Fatigue Behavior of Short-Headed Studs Embedded in a Thin Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete Layer
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In recent years, ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) has been increasingly applied to orthotropic steel deck (OSD) bridges. The UHPC layer and the OSD are connected through short-headed studs. This paper studies the ... -
Lateral Live-Load Distribution of Dual-Lane Vehicles with Nonstandard Axle Configurations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The numbers and sizes of permitted vehicles that consist of at least four wheel lines have been increasingly crossing on highways and bridges. For safety purposes, it is necessary to understand how those truck loads are ... -
Behavior of Perforated Shear Connectors in Steel–Concrete Composite Joints of Hybrid Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Perforated shear connectors (PSCs) in steel–concrete composite joints are usually deeply embedded in concrete, and the perforated plate thickness varies significantly, which is different from those in a steel–concrete ...