The hangers of a suspension bridge is one of the most important stressed members, the thorough research of the deterioration during operation period and the security analysis after the degeneration of hangers is essential. This is the basis of the strategy of preventive maintenance of suspension bridges. Firstly, the paper studies the four stages of degradation mechanisms of sling and calculati...

The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a major suspension bridge that is critical to the tri-state region of northern Delaware, southern New Jersey, and southeastern Pennsylvania. The Delaware Memorial Bridge consists of two nearly-identical suspension bridges (hence the nickname “Twin Spans”) that cross the Delaware River from southern New Jersey to northern Delaware. Field ambient vibration measurem...

Male passersby were contacted either on a fear-arousing suspension bridge or a non-fear-arousing bridge by an attractive female interviewer who asked them to fill out questionnaires containing Thematic Apperception Test pictures. Sexual content of stories written by subjects on the fear-arousing bridge and tendency of these subjects to attempt postexperimental contact with the interviewer were ...

For most existing bridges, supporting continuous traffic loads is the basic function. However, in addition to this load, bridges are exposed to environmental (Frangopol and Soliman, 2015 [1]), as well as various other complex loads, that are mostly random in nature, such as earthquake, flow-included loadings, wind and so on. All these loading conditions need to be considered and must satisfy th...

With the suspension of investment into V0 railway line, issue lines bypassing Budapest came to front again. As an alternative building a new development existing ones or rebuilding that have been in operation past should be examined. In this paper, we deal with previously operated, now discontinued Danube crossing facility, Solt–Dunaföldvár bridge. Although was minor importance during its opera...