Characteristics of the US Highway Bridge Population
Characteristics of US highway bridges are summarized, and conditions of national, regional, and state bridges are analyzed with respect to structural deficiency. The overall patterns in...

Flexible Extracation of Practical Knowledge from Bridge Databases
Bridge databases contain significant information that can assist in future bridge management decisions. The effective utilization of this information requires facilities for the flexible...

Performance of New York's Long-span Bridges
This paper is a work-in-progress report on a database on the performance of long-span bridges located in New York State and built between 1801 and 1993. Of the 68 long-span bridges - bridges...

An Inductive Knowledge-Based System for Mitigation of Bridge Fabrication Errors
Fabrication and erection of steel bridges are very error-prone processes. Bridge engineers at the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) felt that there is a need for the development...

Seismic Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Building Using Finite-element Techniques
The response of a reinforced concrete building subjected to earthquake loading has been obtained on a personal computer using the finite-element code STARDYNE. For preliminary design,...

Seismic Evaluation of the Macy Street Bridge, Los Angeles, California, Using 3-D Nonlinear Pushover Methodologies
Nonlinearity of the overall bridge response has begun to be incorporated in the design process through a method known as nonlinear static pushover analysis, and this step is now being...

Nonlinear Analysis and Experimental Validation of a Stiffening Truss Chord of the Golden Gate Bridge
Finite element analyses of a stiffening truss chord of the Golden Gate Bridge were conducted by the authors as part of a comprehensive seismic retrofit project conducted by T. Y. Lin International...

Application of the FESWMS-2DH Software to Solve the Navigation Problem at EL-Menya Bridge in Egypt
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the application of a two-dimensional Finite Element Surface Water Modelling System on a navigation problem located along the Nile river in front...

Expert System for Bridge Scour and Stream Stability
Significant engineering judgment is required to ascertain the scour susceptibility of bridges. This judgment is typically acquired through many years of experience. This paper describes...

Developing an Object Based Planning System for Precast Concrete Building Structures
This paper presents the organization of an object based planning system for determining the preliminary costs, schedules and resources for precast concrete building structures. First,...

Macroelement Model for Shear Wall Analysis
An efficient modeling scheme for static and dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete shear walls in the inelastic range is presented. The macroelement model of the shear wall is composed...

The BS8110 CAL Program for Teaching RC Design
This paper describes the main features of RC-CAL, a computer-aided-learning courseware for reinforced concrete design to BS8110, the British Code of Practice. Results of an evaluation...

BRICAL: A Multimedia Intelligent Educational System for Bridge Engineering
This paper discusses the development of a multimedia intelligent educational prototype system for bridge engineering called BRICAL. BRICAL uses information networks to express the relationships...

Bridge Condition Rating Using Fuzzy Sets and an Eigenvector of Priority Settings
A simplified methodology for combining the condition rating of the various elements of bridge components (deck, superstructure or substructure) is developed using a multi-attributive decision...

Rotating Crack Model and Fracture in a R/C Medium
In this study the potential of the development of cracks in the members of a reinforced concrete large panel structure is considered. The analysis is carried out using finite element modeling...

Conceptual Design Using Evolutive-Cognitive Computing Techniques
The paper concerns the development of a computer-based capability for conducting conceptual design using emergent(self-organizing) computing paradigms that arrive at a solution through...

Deformations in Sand Layer During Pile Driving
This paper presents measurements of settlement and lateral soil movements in a medium dense to dense sand layer due to densification during driving of precast concrete piles. At one end...

Testing and Predicting the Movement of a Drilled Shaft in New Mexico
The New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department (NMSH&TD) have been using drilled shafts for supporting bridges in the State of New Mexico. Several drilled shafts were...

Measured Downdrag on Seven Coated and Uncoated Piles in New Orleans
A site outside of New Orleans, Louisiana was selected as part of a research effort to study the phenomenon of downdrag on bitumen-coated piles. Two steel pipe piles, two timber piles,...

Comparison of Settlement Predictions for Single Piles in Sand Based on Penetration Test Results
The analysis of settlement for driven piles in cohesionless soils is a complex soil structure interaction problem. The total settlement for such a pile is generally considered to be the...

 

 

 

 

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