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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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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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Kultigin Demirlioglu and Emrah Erduran
Bridges serve as vital engineering structures crafted to facilitate secure and effective transportation networks. Throughout their life-cycle, they withstand various factors, including diverse environmental conditions, natural hazards, and substantial lo...
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Nikolaos Tegos, Ilias Papadopoulos and Georgios Aretoulis
The main research purpose of the present paper is the establishment of certain compliance criteria, applied for the selection of the most appropriate, per case, bridge construction method, as well as the definition of the weights of these criteria. The f...
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Yafei Wang, Changfa Zhou, Jiwei Zhong, Zhengxing Wang, Wenfan Yao, Yuyin Jiang and Shujin Laima
The increasing number of suspension bridges has led to designs favoring greater length and flexibility, resulting in a common problem of vortex-induced vibration. While vortex-induced vibration typically does not cause structural damage, it diminishes th...
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Li Dai, Mi-Da Cui, Ze-Wen Zhu, Yi Li, Jiang-Rui Qiu and Xiao-Xiang Cheng
According to a previous study, a concrete bridge bearing vehicles traveling at lower speeds suffers from more severe apparent damage compared to one bearing vehicles traveling at higher speeds. The authors of the study subjectively inferred that the obse...
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Fabio Micozzi, Michele Morici, Alessandro Zona and Andrea Dall?Asta
Video processing for structural monitoring has attracted much attention in recent years thanks to the possibility of measuring displacement time histories in the absence of stationary points close to the structure, using hardware that is simple to operat...
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Hong Lang, Yuan Peng, Zheng Zou, Shengxue Zhu, Zhen Chen and Meng Zhang
The bridgehead settlement problem continues to be one of the most chronic issues affecting long-term bridge performance. In addition, the magnitude of non-staggered-step settlement across the bridge approach transition has not been quantified. Non-contac...
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Fan Yang, Hanwei Zhao, Aiqun Li and Zhao Fang
Rail-cum-road cable-stayed bridges are widely used to span rivers, bays, and valleys. It is vital to understand the vibration behavior of the cables, which are the crucial load-bearing components of a cable-stayed bridge, as it is the leading cause of ca...
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Zhimin Yang, Xiangzhao Yan, Yutong Tian, Zaohong Pu, Yihan Wang, Chunhui Li, Yujun Yi, Xuan Wang and Qiang Liu
The issue of sudden water pollution resulting from accidents is a challenging environmental problem to address. The frequency of transport accidents involving hazardous materials over tributary bridges is steadily rising due to rapid industrialization an...
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