A comprehensive traffic load model for bridge safety checking

Structural Safety

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 339-359

  Crespo Minguillón, César ^a   Casas, Juan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bridges; Fatigue; Limit state; Live load; Load model; Reliability; Simulation; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOAD LIMITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRIDGE SAFETY CHECKING; LIMIT STATE; TRAFFIC LOAD MODEL;

BRIDGES;

EID: 0031333287     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(97)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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