Japan Spans the Inland
Japan recently opened the Kojima-Sakaide Route, a 13.1 km series of bridges across the Inland Sea. The route connects two of Japan's four main islands�Honshu and Shikoku....
Program to Reduce Deicing Chemical Usage
Over the years (since about 1948), the dependency on deicing chemicals has been increased to provide 'bare pavement' for safe and efficient winter transportation....
Steel Boxes Carry Rail Lines
Steel box girders plus novel bearing details led to beautiful curved bridges carrying Chicago Transit Authority trains into its Howard Yard. During preliminary design three alternative...
Golden Gate Bridge Improvements
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District engineer talks about improvements made to the Golden Gate Bridge since opening day. Improvements covered include: wind bracing,...
Spanning the Seas
A proposed structural scheme, called the V�tower system, could cross vast stretches of water with record length spans yet use only conventional materials. An example is a bridge proposed...
Water Jets: Concrete Yes, Tunneling Maybe
High pressure water jets are demolishing concrete from bridge and parking decks, faster and at lower cost than by traditional means. The technique is fast becoming an acceptable option....
Queensboro Bridge Inspection and Rehabilitation
An in-depth inspection of the Queensboro Bridge revealed deterioration of certain elements on the lower level of the main bridge. These elements include the outer roadway cantilever brackets,...
Development and Use of Stress Laminated Timber Deck Bridges
This presentation provides a brief overview of the concepts, development, research needs, economics and recent use of stress laminated timber bridge decks. Repeated articles on the serious...
Prediction and Control of the Wind Response of Long-Span Bridges with Plate Girder Decks
The aerodynamic stability of plate girder decks and methods of improving it are discussed. The selection of an appropriate design wind speed for flutter is reviewed including the effect...
Flutter Derivatives from 14 Generic Deck Sections
The results of a series of wind-tunnel bridge-deck section-model experiments are discussed. Fourteen section models, seven with H-shaped cross-sections and seven with rectangular cross-sections,...
Stabilizing Winglet Pair for Slender Bridge Decks
This paper describes the effectiveness, as an aerodynamic damper, of a pair of winglets mounted parallel to, and clear from, bridge decks that might otherwise be aeroelastically unstable....
Wind Tunnel Investigation of a Twin Deck Suspension Bridge
Wind tunnel measurements of the response of a twin deck suspension bridge to dynamic wind loads are presented. The investigation was concerned with the determination of the deck response...
Effects of Three-Dimensionality and Nonlinearity on the Dynamic and Seismic Behavior of Cable-Stayed Bridges
The cases of multiple-support as well as uniform seismic excitations of these long and flexible structures are considered; furthermore, effects of the nondispersive travelling, seismic-wave...
Comparative WWind Tunnel Testing of Bridge Road Decks
A 1:75 scale full aeroelastic model of the Quincy Bridge over the Mississippi River was tested in the National Research Council of Canada 9 m multiplied by 9 m wind tunnel. Tests were...
Aluminum Orthotropic Bridge Deck Verification
This paper reports tests conducted to evaluate an aluminum orthotropic deck. Approximately 60 welded T-joints with 6061-T6 stems and 5456-H321 plate were subjected to flexural fatigue...
Fatigue Strength of Welded Wire Fabric
Long life fatigue tests were made on 12 concrete slabs reinforced with large diameter, Grade 75, deformed welded wire fabric. The specimens simulated, to full scale, conditions in a bare...
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...
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...
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...
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