Cantilevers are a part of our life, they everywhere: bridg–es, building’s balconies, traffic signs, car parking shades even the aircraft’s wings. The long cantilevers buildings always present as big challenge to structural engineers in their practice life. behavior these depends on several factors, such rigidity slab, columns or walls, span continuity... etc. But real dilemma lies economical ch...

In the construction of large-tonnage box girder, load girder transport is generally greater than operating in highway industry; therefore, it a crucial task to carry out accurate simulation and optimization on bearing girder. For this purpose, refined modeling method 40 m/1270t studied first paper, followed by detailed stress analysis considering impact coefficient vehicles most unfavorable con...

Most of the previous researches conducted on shear lag of box girders were only concerned about simple types of structures, such as simply supported and cantilever beams. The structural systems concerned in these previous researches were considered as determined and unchangeable. In this paper, a finite element method considering shear lag and creep of concrete was presented to analyze the effe...

A reliability-based method for inspection scheduling of steel bridges is proposed to yield the optimal (most economical) inspection strategy that meets an acceptable safety level through the planned service life. Two fatigue reliability formulations that can be applied for most details in steel bridges are presented. For details classified according to AASHTO fatigue categories, a limit state f...

The mechanism of pile-soil reaction in frozen ground is not clear at present, but it obvious that the reduction dead weight will be beneficial to seismic resistance bridges. In view limited bridge engineering practice high risk permafrost regions, paper addressed structural performance superstructure and its effect on piles these special regions. Four superstructures with different weights were...

3.1 Overview The proposed equations in the AISC Guide (Murray et al. 1997) for the effective moment of inertia of a steel joist-concrete slab system, Equations (1.7) and (1.8), are based on research from Kitterman (1994) and Band (1996), and a theoretical derivation. The modeling techniques developed in Chapter 2 were used to verify the validity of Equation (1.7) as described in the following s...