Journal of Bridge Engineering: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Seismic Damage to Memphis Bridges and Highway Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents a procedure for the evaluation of the expected seismic damage to bridges and highway systems in Memphis and Shelby County, Tenn. Data pertinent to 452 bridges and major arterial routes were collected ... -
Leffert Lefferts Buck—Bridge Maker
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)In these days of bridge design by large national and international teams, it is easy to forget those days in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when one man undertook the design and construction of a major ... -
Overlay for Concrete Segmental Box-Girder Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Concrete overlay cracking and delamination were noticed on a concrete segmental box-girder bridge. Analytical investigation and field and laboratory examinations were conducted to identify the major factors causing the ... -
Experimental Verification of Horizontally Curved I-Girder Bridge Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Past research has been conducted on the behavior of horizontally curved girders by testing scaled models and full-scale laboratory bridges and by analyzing numerical models. Current design specifications are based on this ... -
Externally Prestressed High Strength Concrete Viaduct
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents an externally prestressed high strength concrete viaduct designed and erected in Spain. This viaduct, a three-span (41 + 50 + 41 m) continuous beam, has been designed and built with a 60-MPa strength ... -
Bridge Rating with Consideration for Fatigue Damage from Overloads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents a proposed rating model that incorporates the fatigue damaging effects of overloads. This is achieved by introducing a “fatigue index” in the rating equation. The index, which appears in the form of a ... -
Effect of Construction Loads and Vibrations on New Concrete Bridge Decks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents an investigation on the effects of construction loads and vibrations on typical newly poured reinforced concrete bridge decks. The main objective of this paper was to perform dynamic finite-element ... -
Evaluation of Strength Formulations for Horizontally Curved Flexural Members
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)In 1992 the Federal Highway Administration, along with 13 states, began a project to study the behavior of horizontally curved steel bridges. The project is referred to as the Curved Steel Bridge Research Project and ... -
Effect of Bearing Pads on Precast Prestressed Concrete Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Precast AASHTO concrete bridge I-beams are often supported at the ends by elastomeric bearing pads. The bearing pad-bridge beam interface defines support boundary conditions that may affect the performance of the bridge. ... -
Effect of Friction on Shear Connection in Composite Bridge Beams
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)In the design of new composite steel and concrete bridge beams, the shear connectors are assumed to transmit all of the longitudinal shear forces at the interface between the concrete slab and the steel beam. However, in ... -
Comparison of Measured and Computed Stresses in a Steel Curved Girder Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Steel curved I-girder bridge systems may be more susceptible to instability during construction than bridges constructed of straight I-girders. The primary goal of this research is to study the behavior of the steel ... -
Inelastic Design of Steel I-Girder Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper discusses the calculations and presents the results of a detailed inelastic design of a three-span continuous plate-girder bridge, using suggested new inelastic design procedures. The characteristics of the ... -
Anchorage of External Tendons in End Diaphragms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)External posttensioning tendons in concrete box girder bridges are usually anchored in very massive end diaphragms. Several incidences of distress of such diaphragms have been reported in the literature. This paper presents ... -
Special Studies for Vasco da Gama Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The importance and structural characteristics of the Vasco da Gama Bridge led to the development of some special studies to achieve a more detailed analysis of its structural behavior. The studies reported in this paper ... -
Simplified Model for Computer-Aided Analysis of Integral Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents a computer-aided approach for the design of integral-abutment bridges. An analysis procedure and a simplified structure model are proposed for the design of integral-abutment bridges considering their ... -
Effects of Longitudinal Stiffeners on Curved I-Girder Webs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Two previous papers by the writers described the buckling and finite-displacement behavior of curved I-girder web panels without longitudinal stiffeners subjected to pure bending, presented a theoretically pure analytical ... -
Relaxation in High-Strength Bolted Connections Using Galvanized Steel
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)In recent bridge construction in Connecticut involving heavy sections, galvanized coating thicknesses were in excess of 12 mils. The current American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials specification ... -
Slippage of Neoprene Bridge Bearings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Elastomeric bearing pads are more appropriate than mechanical bearings to support bridge loads for many reasons. Two of the most significant reasons are cost and maintenance. Failure modes for bearing pads include crushing, ... -
Viscoelastic Dampers at Expansion Joints for Seismic Protection of Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents the result of a study on the use of viscoelastic dampers at expansion joints of highway bridges for preventing superstructure decks from falling off the seats and/or from colliding with each other in ... -
Simplified Inelastic Design of Steel Girder Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Inelastic design of steel girder bridges can result in beneficial material and fabrication cost savings and reduce the susceptibility of steel girder bridges to fatigue. The ability to redistribute large negative region ...