Design of an Expert System for the Rating of Highway Bridges
A microcomputer-based expert system used to determine the effects of vehicles and overloaded vehicles on simple span bridges with reinforced concrete deck and prestressed concrete I-beams...
Applications of Automated Interpretation to Sensor Data
This paper focuses on potential applications of the AISD. (A knowledge-based concept for automating the interpretation of sensor data) concept in civil engineering. A number of potential...
Traffic Barriers: A Second Chance
More motorists are killed each year after striking traffic barriers than any other fixed object except utility poles and trees. These deaths occur primarily because the guardrail or bridge...
Vibration Tests of Reservoir Structures Outlet Tower and Footbridge
This paper presents a field test procedure used in determining the dynamic properties of an outlet tower and footbridge for a major reservoir. Such factors as virtual water mass, soil-structure...
Some Aspects of Bridge Instrumentation
This paper provides some guidelines about the proper arrangement of strong motion instruments for the proper assessment of some particular phenomena that have been either observed in past...
Floating Bridges in Short-Crested Random Seas
Four large concrete floating bridges located in Washington State have been the subject of extensive analytical modeling for dynamic response to storm waves. The dynamic analysis of the...
Response of the San Juan Bautista 156/101 Bridge to the 1979 Coyote Lake Earthquake
Strong-motion accelerograms are used to examine the response of a multiple-span highway bridge to earthquake loading. Estimates of modal frequencies and damping values for the first two...
Seismic Behavior of Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridges
Special features of the earthquake-response analysis of cable-stayed bridges, subjected to multiple-support excitation, are presented including a basis for calculation of seismic forces...
Seismic Response Analysis of Two Major Bridge Structures
The seismic response analyses of two major bridge structures have been conducted. In these two bridges, portions of the piles are either submerged in the water or free-standing within...
Changes in Bridge Deck Flutter Derivatives Caused by Turbulence
This paper discusses some of the results of a wind tunnel study that tested the aeroelastic stability of section models in smooth and gusting flow. Wind gusts several times longer than...
A Discrete Model for the Estimation of the Elastic Abutment Stiffness
The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a simple method for the estimation of the abutment stiffness. In this method, the abutment is represented as a uniform rigid plate with...
Seismic Isolation of Bridge Structures
Seismic isolation concept has been extensively developed and applied in New Zealand and is receiving increased attention in the United States. Two bridge projects have incorporated the...
Monitoring a Bridge's Pulse
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which collapsed in 1980, is being replaced by the Florida Department of Transportation. The new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which spans Tampa Bay between Bradenton...
Salvaging the Zilwaukee
In 1982, construction of the Zilwaukee Bridge in Michigan was disrupted when the launching truss failed to hold a precast concrete segment near Pier 11N, severely deflecting the cantilever...
Bridge Management: Computer Aided Priorities
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has invested $3.6 million in developing the concept and software for a Bridge Management System that will help determine the needs...
Cable Stays Catch On
The three completed cable stayed bridges in the U.S.�Pasco-Kennewick in Washington, Luling-Destrehan in Louisiana and East Huntington in West Virginia�will soon be joined by another half...
Beauty and the Bridge
At the California Department of Transportation, a special aesthetics unit works closely with the design engineers in the Division of Structures, which has won almost 400 prizes for its...
Rehabbing under Traffic
Redecking the Golden Gate Bridge with a light weight orthotropic steel plate deck left the 49 year old monument 11,000 tons lighter, 2 feet wider, and ready to carry traffic for the next...
Nondestructive Evaluation of Timber Bridge Piles
A nondestructive technique for the determination of the in-place strength of timber bridge piling is presented herein. The testing technique is the ultrasonic wave propagation method in...
Building a Bridge Within a Bridge
The City of Grand Rapids had to replace an aging bridge connecting vital commercial centers on opposite sides of Michigan's Grand River. The city's consultants...
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