Time-varying reliability model of steel girder bridges

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Structures and Buildings

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 359-367

  Park, C H ^a   Nowak, A S ^a   Das, P C ^b   Flint, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Highway Agency ^*

Author keywords

Bridges; Corrosion; Risk and probability analysis

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STEEL CORROSION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TIME VARYING RELIABILITY;

STEEL BRIDGES;

BRIDGE;

EID: 0032216315     PISSN: 09650911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/istbu.1998.30912     Document Type: Article

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