Non-linear Analysis of a Cable Stayed Bridge
A concrete single-pylon cable-stayed bridge has been analyzed to investigate the ultimate capacity. Two different methods were used to investigate the nonlinear behaviour. First, a simplified...
Decision Methods for Selecting Earth Retaining Structures
The Bridge Branch of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has organized the framework of a formal decision process for retaining wall selection. The process facilitates implementation...
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Optimal Budget Allocation to Bridges
The funding available for bridge improvements in the United States has been insufficient for many years. The limited budgets granted have generally been allocated based on Sufficiency...
NCHRP Project 12-28(2)A Bridge Management System Software
This paper describes the various features of the bridge management system being developed by NET Corporation as part of a project funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program...
Bridge Management System Implementation at CALTRANS
Development of a new generation of Bridge Management System (BMS) capabilities has been a high priority for CALTRANS for the past four years. Although the Department has had a bridge inventory...
CAD System for Structural Aesthetics of Bridge Form
An exploratory design process for aesthetic bridge structure is proposed in this paper through developing a prototype of comprehensive CAD system. This process is conceived not only for...
A Study on Aseismic Behaviours of Composite Trussed Arch Bridge
Composite trussed arch bridge is a new type bridge structure developed in China recently, It has the following features: good integrality, reasonable inner force distribution, great spanning...
Implementing Qualitative Reasoning for Structural Design Using Constraint Propagation
All designs begin with qualitative reasoning and therefore, this activity has an important influence upon subsequent quantitative stages. In structural design, qualitative reasoning starts...
IVHS and HOV Facilities
This paper examines the application o f intelligent vehicle-highway systems (IVHS) technology to high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities. Current projects are described and potential applications...
Development of Differential Growth Method for Automated Vehicle Recognition
The purpose of this study is to improve a system which enables automatic recognition of vehicles from video images using image processing system. Basic methodology is a subtracting operation...
Foundation Uniform Pressure and Soil Structure Interaction
The enclosed paper was presented in the ASCE, 8th Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering and published in its proceedings. One of its main assumptions was considering the foundation...
Secondary Member Contribution to the Behavior of Damaged Multigirder Highway Bridges
This paper examines the effects of secondary members (cross bracing and diaphragms) on the prediction of the response of damaged simple span steel multigirder bridges. Extensive analytical...
Time-Dependent Analysis of Nonprismatic Curved PC Box Girder Bridges
The purpose of this paper is to present a step-by-step computer method for predicting the deflection and stress distribution duo to creep and shrinkage of concrete in nonprismatic, curved,...
Highway Speed Radar for Pavement and Bridge Deck Evaluation
Radar has been developed as an economical alternative evaluating pavement layer properties and estimating quantities of deterioration in bridge decks. These highway applications are based...
Bridge Monitoring Through Sensor Data Synthesis and Interpretation
The objective of this paper is to outline efforts at the West Virginia University Constructed Facilities Center (CFC) to develop and implement a system for interpretation and synthesis...
A Graphics-Based System for Urban Roadway Management
This paper describes a graphics-based system for urban roadway management. The main objective of the system is to select the cost effective maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R)...
Corrosion Model for Concrete Structures
The high basic environment created by concrete pore water protects the reinforcing steel from spontaneously corroding. Chloride ions destroy the passivity of steel in concrete and the...
TRACK(1.0): A Railroad Track Design and Evaluation Computer Program for Work Planning and Budgeting
This paper describes TRACK, a track structural analysis method and computer program developed by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. TRACK is a program for evaluating...
The State of the Art of Bridge Management Systems
The development of Bridge Management Systems, and Pontis in particular, requires states to change many of their traditional inspection and record-keeping procedures. If these are changed,...
Automated Generation of NBI Reporting Fields from Pontis BMS Database
Methods to generate National Bridge Inventory (NBI) condition ratings for deck (Field 58), superstructure(Field 59), substructure (Field 60) and culvert (Field 62) from the bridge database...
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