Destructive testing of two forty-year-old prestressed concrete bridge beams

PCI Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 84-93

  Halsey, J Todd ^a,b   Miller, Richard ^b  

^a Lantz Jones and Nebraska   (United States)

^b 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGES; CRACK INITIATION; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DUCTILITY; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; MECHANICAL TESTING; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACKING MOMENTS; ULTIMATE MOMENTS;

PRESTRESSED CONCRETE;

EID: 0030231143     PISSN: 08879672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15554/pcij.09011996.84.93     Document Type: Article

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