SEISMIC RESPONSES OF HIGHWAY VIADUCTS INCORPORATING BRIDGE-VEHICLE INTERACTION

Seismic Vulnerability Study of the Us Highway Bridge Systems

In the fall of 1998, the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation initiated a series of studies related to the seismic performance of the U.S. national highway system. The research conducted under this study is intended to provide improved tools for evaluating and assessing the social costs and impacts of earthquakes on highway systems and bridges, and to reduce t...

An Investigation Into the Vehicle-Curved Bridge Dynamic Interaction

Seismic Risk Assessment of Optimally Designed Highway Bridge Isolated by Ordinary Unbounded Elastomeric Bearings

Recent experimental research has shown that ordinary unbounded steel reinforced elastomeric bearings (SREBs) can be considered as an attractive cost-effective option for the seismic isolation of highway bridges. To further investigate its benefits, the current study is focused on the seismic risk assessment of an optimally designed highway bridge isolated by SREB system. A typical three-span hi...

Seismic Response Analysis of Highway Overcrossings Including Soil-Structure Interaction

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Exploring Indirect Vehicle-Bridge Interaction for Bridge SHM

In this paper, we explore an indirect measurement approach for bridge structural health monitoring (SHM) that collects sensed information from the dynamic responses of many vehicles travelling over a bridge and then makes extensive use of advanced signal processing techniques to determine information about the state of the bridge. We refer to this approach as vehicle-data driven and indirect. W...