The most slender and flexible footbridges are stress ribbon bridges. One kind of these elegant and simple bridges consists of two hanging steel ribbons, usually made of steel, which carry concrete deck panels and are ...

As a new high-strength material, carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) cable provided an opportunity for bridge structures to achieve span limits that were not possible or economical in the past. Based on existing conceptual ...

This paper describes shear laboratory testing of a joint design for spliced, prestressed precast I-girders. Although the connection is not intended to be placed at locations of high shear, the potential for shear-type ...

Cross frames are critical structural elements in both straight and horizontally curved steel bridges. In order to properly size the brace for the strength and stiffness demands of the superstructure, an accurate model of ...

Many studies have been conducted to investigate the seismic fragility of regular girder bridges, whereas only a few studies have focused on irregular cable-stayed bridges. In this study, the performance of a medium-span ...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact factor (IM) in LRFD bridge design specifications for fatigue design and to propose a method for determining reasonable IMs for the fatigue design of steel I-girder bridges ...