Journal of Bridge Engineering: Recent submissions
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Recommendations for Active-Learning Kriging Reliability Analysis of Bridge Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Active-learning Kriging (AK) was developed as a surrogate-aided reliability technique to address the need for efficient reliability estimation when assessing complex limit states. The results of AK analyses are sensitive ... -
Bridge Maintenance Management Based on Routine Inspection Data: A Quantitative Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Mainstream bridge management systems use Markov chains of bridge condition ratings (CRs) to simulate temporal bridge health degradations and apply Markov decision processes to find optimal repair schemes. However, CR-based ... -
Dynamic Effect of Bidirectional Crowd Behavior on Footbridges Considering Human–Structure Interaction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study employed an enhanced social force model to investigate the impact of bidirectional crowd load on the vertical vibration characteristics of pedestrian bridges. The research incorporated a two-step prejudgment ... -
Bespoke Footbridge for Studying Pedestrian–Structure Interaction with Vertical Vibration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Progress in quantifying and codifying pedestrian–structure interaction with a vertical structural vibration and the effects on both human beings and structures has been slow, primarily owing to a lack of experimental ... -
Drive-By Detection of Scour in a Railway Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper proposes an innovative indirect monitoring system for bridge foundation scour damage detection. The Rail Infrastructure Alignment Acquisition system, a mobile mapping system that can be attached to the front or ... -
Uncertainty Analysis and Quantification of the AASHTO Live Load Distribution Model for Moderately Buried–Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)RC box culverts are buried structures prevalent in transportation systems. The existence of backfill brings in additional challenges to estimate load demands in these structures. The AASHTO LRFD specifications present a ... -
Evaluating Support Representation and Modeling Strategy for Skewed Steel I-Girder Integral Abutment Bridges during Deck Placement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Steel I-girder integral abutment bridges (IABs) have become popular in recent years due to their cost-effective construction and maintenance, even for skewed bridges in several states, despite their complex support restraints. ... -
Flexural Behavior of Steel-UHPC-NC Composite Girders with Different UHPC-NC Interface Treatments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The interface shear-resistant construction method between ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) and normal concrete (NC) is critical to ensuring the overall collaborative work performance and structural safety of steel-UHPC-NC ... -
Data Set from Ambient Vibration Monitoring and Static Loading of a Steel Stringer Bridge Subject to Imposed Damage for Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The development and application of structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for performance monitoring and structural integrity assessment of highway bridges has received significant attention from both industry ... -
Full-Scale Experimental Study on Temperature Field Distribution of PBL-Based Steel–UHPC Composite Structures during the Early Stage and Steam Curing Period
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As one of the most innovative cement-based engineering materials, ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) has attracted increasing attention in civil engineering over the last few decades. Recently, a new steel–UHPC composite ... -
Effective Length Factor for Transverse Buckling of Single-Column Bridge Bents
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Design for stability requires quantifying the effective length of columns. While guidance adopted from building design is sufficient for many cases in bridge design, conservative assumptions are often made when assessing ... -
Shear Condition Classification of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Machine Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)RC bridges represent about 40% of the US bridge inventory, with many of these bridges reaching or surpassing their design service life. As a result, there is a significant number of structures that require fast and accurate ... -
Quasi-Static Tests and Simulations of Round-Ended Railway Bridge Piers with a Small Shear-Span Ratio
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study investigates the seismic performance of round-ended railway bridge piers subjected to transverse bridge loading. Six scaled models of bridge piers with low-reinforcement ratios, low axial compression ratios, and ... -
Experimental Study on Fatigue Behavior of Deep-Reinforced Concrete Beams with Corroded Reinforcement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)RC deep beams are critical load-bearing elements in bridge structures, designed to sustain heavy loads over short spans while being exposed to cyclic loading and aggressive corrosive environments during their service life. ... -
Coupled Instabilities of Lateral Torsional Buckling and Shear Buckling of Singly Symmetric Steel I-Girders: Experimental and Numerical Investigations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper investigates the potential to extend current design limits for transverse stiffener spacing and effective lateral unbraced lengths through experimental and numerical studies. The focus here is on noncompact and ... -
Distributed Operational Modal Analysis of Multispan Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A method is presented for estimating the mode shapes of multispan structures based on the distributed optical fiber strain sensors. The dynamic mode decomposition method was employed to decompose the spatial–temporal strain ... -
Seismic Performance of Corroded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Columns Reinforced with GFRP Spirals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study investigated the impact of corrosion on the seismic performance of bridges constructed using accelerated bridge construction with a focus on post-tensioned (PT) concrete column-to-footing connections. The precast ... -
Evaluation of the Performance of UHPC- and HCSC-Filled Noncontact Lap Splice Closure Joint Used for Lateral Slide-in Bridge Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With slide-in bridge construction, the bridge superstructure is constructed off the final alignment and then slid laterally from the temporary worksite onto the in-place substructure. Once the sliding is completed, a closure ... -
Vibration-Prone Structures: Uncertain Effects of Human–Structure Interaction on Ground Reaction Forces and the Cadence of Walking Individuals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study addresses the vertical human–structure interaction (vHSI) and its effect on vertical ground reaction forces (vGRFs) as well as on gait adaptation in terms of cadence adjustment by analyzing the gait of individual ... -
Axial Compressive Tests and Resistance Design of UHTCC-Encased Rectangular Steel Tubular Bridge Columns
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Ultrahigh toughness cementitious composite (UHTCC) has attracted particular attention in recent years owing to its exceptional resistance in accommodating large deformations and controlling tensile cracks. These properties ...