YaBeSH Digital Library: Recent submissions
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Critical Causal Path Analysis of Subway Construction Safety Accidents Based on Text Mining
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Due to the frequent occurrence of subway construction safety accidents in recent years, construction workers face great safety threat, which produces serious social hazards. The causes of subway construction safety accidents ... -
Determining Tensions in Suspension Bridge Anchor Span Strands at Their Erection Stage: An Analytical Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)During suspension bridge erection, tensions in its anchor span strands undergo continuous changes until the completed bridge state is attained. Calculating the precise tension values in the anchor span strands is critical ... -
Dynamic Vehicle Model for Accommodating Fatigue Based on Axle Load Effects in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Vehicle-induced fatigue is a primary contributor to the formation of cracks on orthotropic steel bridge decks (OSDs). Currently, simplified fatigue vehicle models are often employed in bridge design specification to estimate ... -
Effects of Near-Fault Pulse-Like Ground Motions and Pulse Parameters on a High-Speed Railway Long-Span Arch Bridge–Track System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Arch bridges are increasingly used for high-speed railway (HSR) bridges because of their superior structural properties and ability to span extensive distances. However, their seismic behavior under near-fault pulse-like ... -
Structural Adequacy and Network Criticality: An Integrated Approach for Prioritizing Bridge Adaptation to Automated Truck Platooning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The emergence of connected and autonomous vehicles technology presents a unique challenge for existing highway bridges. Trucks forming platoons and traveling in close, high-speed formations offer fuel efficiency gains but ... -
Soil–Structure Interaction Analysis of Transition Zone Deformations due to Imposed Abutment Displacement Cycles in an Integral Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Integral abutment bridges (IABs) are jointless bridge structures in which the bridge deck is cast monolithically with supporting piers and abutments. The absence of expansion joints and bearings eliminates maintenance costs ... -
Underwater Surface Defect Recognition of Bridges Based on Fusion of Semantic Segmentation and Three-Dimensional Point Cloud
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study introduces an innovative approach for identifying surface defects in underwater bridge structures through the fusion of deep learning and three-dimensional point cloud. The method employs a U2-Net neural network ... -
Strength and Behavior of Unconfined Noncontact Hooked Bar Lap Splices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Hooked bars are commonly used in lap splices to connect precast concrete elements to reduce required splice lengths; however, practically, no tests of large hooked bars in such elements have been conducted. To address this ... -
Joint Analysis of Structural Flexibility Uncertainty and Deflection Serviceability Limit State Reliability Using the Active Excitation Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Flexibility is a key parameter that reflects the service status of an engineering structure, which includes safety and applicability. Rapid structural safety evaluation based on active excitation tests for flexibility has ... -
Probabilistic Identification Method of Cable Force Considering Uncertain and Missing Modal Frequencies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Vibration-based cable force identification has been widely applied in engineering practice. The order of modes is typically required in the identification, but it may not be always available, e.g., due to uncontrolled ... -
Determining Prestress Losses, Residual Capacity, and Degradation from Testing of Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders after 56 Years of Service
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Prestressed concrete bridges built as early as the 1950s and still in use have deteriorated as a result of prestress losses, aging, and corrosion. This deterioration necessitates load posting, repair, retrofit, or ... -
Decomposition of the Hierarchical Variability of Concrete Random Fields and Its Influence on the Hysteretic Behavior of Structural Components
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Due to factors like heterogeneity, curing conditions, and production processes, concrete in structures exhibits hierarchical variability and spatial correlation. However, in engineering practice, when considering the ... -
Experimental and Numerical Study of Seismic Response in CFRP-Strengthened and Damaged Rectangular Hollow Bridge Piers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aims to investigate the seismic performance and response of moderately damaged, rectangular hollow bridge pier specimens strengthened with carbon fiber–reinforced polymer (CFRP). For this purpose, two 1:8 ... -
Numerical and Experimental Investigation on Vortex-Induced Vibration Suppression of a Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge with a Central-Slotted Box Girder
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In this study, the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) performance, mechanism, and control of a self-anchored suspension bridge with the central-slotted box girder (CSBG) under the operating wind velocity of the bridge were ... -
Failure Analysis of Continuous Highway Steel I-Multigirder Bridges under the Combined Effect of Fatigue and Overloading Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A significant number of recent highway bridge failures have been attributed to the lack of financial resources that constrained owners to keep bridges in service under undesired circumstances. Given that many highway bridge ... -
Framework for Developing Prediction Models for Boundary Conditions of Slabs in Girders Considering Interpretability: An Application for Deck Slabs in Composite Box Girders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The boundary conditions are critical for analyzing the behavior of the deck slabs in girders. However, the boundary conditions of slabs are hard to predict due to complex influencing factors. Recently, machine learning ... -
Investigation of Retrofit Strategies to Extend the Service Life of Bridge Structures through Active Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The durability of aging bridge structures has become a serious societal concern. It has been estimated that 40%–50% of the bridge stock in Europe and 36% in the US is approaching and exceeding the intended service life in ... -
Managing Railway Bridges Crossing Waterways through a Machine Learning-Based Maintenance Policy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Recently, more frequent and severe natural hazards that are caused by climate change have posed a great threat to the safety of transport systems worldwide. To enhance bridges’ resilience to natural hazards, this paper ... -
Bayesian Updating of Nonlinear Constitutive Models for Steel–Concrete Composite Girder Bridges Using Large-Scale Load Test Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Establishing an accurate finite-element (FE) model that faithfully replicates the nonlinear behavior of steel–concrete composite girder bridges is crucially important for effective model-based structural health monitoring ... -
Buffeting-Induced Fatigue Damage Assessment of a Long-Span Bridge under a Changing Climate Scenario
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the continuous increase of bridge spans, wind-induced vibrations will pose serious problems to structural integrity and serviceability. Among the many vibration sources of long-span bridges, buffeting, which results ...