Effect of reinforcement corrosion on reliability of highway bridges

Engineering Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1010-1019

  Val, Dimitri V ^a   Stewart, Mark G ^a   Melchers, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS); CONCRETE REINFORCEMENTS; CONCRETE SLABS; CORROSION; DETERIORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RELIABILITY; STEEL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FIRST-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD (FORM); REINFORCEMENT CORROSION;

CONCRETE BRIDGES;

BRIDGE; CORROSION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032211019     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(97)00197-1     Document Type: Article

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