Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...
One promising technique for the seismic design of highway bridges with steel superstructures is to dissipate energy through the inelastic deformation of the end cross frames. These so-called ductile ...
The swing span over the Passaic River is being replaced with a bascule bridge that improves reliability, clearance, and ...
A 1,285-ft-long four-span steel plate girder Bridge is taking shape 180 ft above the Yellowstone river in Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park with its thermal geysers, bubbling mud pots and abundant ...
MINNEAPOLIS—The metal plates that held the girders together on a failed 1960s-era interstate bridge were originally attached with rivets, old technology that is more likely to slip than the bolts used ...
Donated by: Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)& Lunda Construction Original Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Year Built: 1968 Year of Fracture: 1975, girder fracture Replaced: 2014, due to ...
Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Seismic isolation systems. End cross frames. Buckling restrained braces (BRB). Base shear. Displacement. Abstract: The end ...