With the development of new materials and advanced structural analysis, alongside increasing aesthetic requirements, recent years have witnessed a trend toward longer, taller, lighter footbridges. Different from vehicular bridges, footbridges carry relatively small service loads are more susceptible to vibrations, due their lower stiffness, damping, modal mass. More often than not, vibration se...

The determination of allowable differential settlement in bridge transition is a key problem to prevent vehicle jump at head, but there are few theoretical research achievements this aspect atroduction home and abroad. In paper, four different structures the road surface Sanyangchuan tunnel lead project studied. asphalt pavement calculated by pavement-layer system, Ladan Lasse transform.

Bridges, as an essential part of transportation system, play a special role in economy, politic and military all around the world. Serviceability of bridges is of high importance especially in emergencies, helping injured people and proportioning transportation after earthquakes. Earthquake regulation codes, normally suggest linear methods to conduct the analysis, and nonlinear analysis is bare...

This paper presents a two-level approach for the maintenance management of aging highway bridges that integrates two different probabilistic deterioration prediction models. The level-1 management is based on Markovian cumulative damage models that predict the macro-response of bridge structures. The level-2 management is based on quantitative reliability-based mechanistic deterioration models ...

The intention of the paper is to illustrate the ability of the probabilistic time-dependent reliability assessment procedure applied to non-linear suspended cable structure with rheological properties, when a rope made from the high strength synthetic fibres is used in order to demonstrate the new qualitatively different concept. Attention is turned to the individual main steps in the assessmen...

Tensegrity structures are spatial, reticulate and lightweight systems composed of struts and cables. Stability is provided by the self-stress state between tensioned and compressed elements. Tensegrities have received interest among scientists and engineers in fields such as architecture, civil and aerospace engineering. Flexibility and ease of tuning make these innovative systems attractive fo...

The race towards new heights and architecture has not been without challenges. Tall structures have continued to climb higher and higher facing strange loading effects and very high loading values due to dominating lateral loads. The design criteria for tall buildings are strength, serviceability, stability and human comfort. But the factors govern the design of tall and slender buildings all t...