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Jiaqi Hu, Yin Gu, Jinhuang Yan, Ying Sun and Xinyi Huang
With the convenient and fast requirements for construction in bridge engineering, prefabricated assembly technology is widely applied in engineering construction. Typically, prefabricated bridge decks are connected through cast-in-place wet joints. Wet j...
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Athanasios Bakalis, Triantafyllos Makarios and Vassilis Lekidis
The seismic damage in reinforced concrete bridges is identified in this study using the ?M and P? hybrid technique initially developed for planar frames, where M signifies ?Monitoring? and P denotes ?Pushover analysis?. The proposed methodology involves ...
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Jozef Gocál, Josef Vican, Jaroslav Odrobinák, Richard Hlinka, Franti?ek Bahleda and Agnieszka Wdowiak-Postulak
In addition to traditional building materials, such as steel and concrete, wood has been gaining increasing prominence in recent years. In the past, the use of wood was limited due to its susceptibility to damage by fungi, insects, and temperature. These...
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Giuseppe Santarsiero
The recent accident of Mestre (northern Italy), which caused 21 fatalities due to a bus falling from a bridge, strongly highlighted the safety problem related to the presence of old railings along Italian roads. Bridge railings, also known as guardrails ...
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Yicong Chen, Jialiang Zhou, Fangzhi Guo, Baochun Chen and Camillo Nuti
Flexural testing on two prestressed segmental ultra?high?performance concrete channels and reinforced conventional concrete deck composite girders (PSUC?RCCD) was carried out. One was made up of four segments with dry joints, and the other was formed of ...
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Yicong Chen, Jialiang Zhou, Baochun Chen, Jiazhan Su and Camillo Nuti
The present study was conducted to clarify the flexural behaviors of the Composite Girders of a Prestressed Segmental Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) Channel and a Reinforced Conventional Concrete Deck (PSUC-RCCD). The girders can be used as bridg...
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Fengli Zhou, Chunwu Guo, Jiangtao Zhang, Jincen Guo, Jinlong Jiang and Lulin Ning
Assembled steel-composite bridges generally use stud connectors to achieve the connection between the deck slab and the steel main girders. However, the commonly-used cluster studs weaken the integrity of the precast deck slabs and are not conducive to r...
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Yongjian Liu, Jiangjiang Li, Lei Jiang, Jianping Xian, Haotian Li, Yadong Zhao and Yunxia Gong
In terms of load transfer, the design of the joints in concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) arch bridges is more critical than that in buildings due to the higher likelihood of steel?concrete-interface debonding. To improve the contact at the steel?concr...
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Maria Giulia Parmiani and Luis Orta
The aging of reinforced concrete structures is one of the biggest concerns in civil engineering today since billions of dollars are spent annually on deck repairs and replacements. This study focuses on the rehabilitation of reinforced concrete box girde...
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Antti Valkonen and Branko Glisic
A key goal of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems applied to infrastructure is to improve asset management. SHM systems yield benefits by providing information that allows improved asset management decisions. Often, improvement is measured in mone...
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