A general multi-axle vehicle model to study the bridge-vehicle interaction

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 491-508

  Fafard, Mario ^a   Bennur, Mallikarjuna ^a   Savard, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Ministere des Transports du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING MOMENTS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; GROUND VEHICLES; STRAIN; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); DYNAMIC LOADS; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

BRIDGE-VEHICLE INTERACTION; DYNAMIC AMPLIFICATION FACTOR (DAF); MULTI-AXLE VEHICLE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); MULTI AXLE VEHICLE MODEL;

HIGHWAY BRIDGES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030716083     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409710170339     Document Type: Article

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