Fatigue reliability of steel bridges

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-92

  Szerszen, Maria M ^a   Nowak, Andrzej S ^a   Laman, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Fatigue loads; Limit state function; Reliability index

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; WEIGHT-IN-MOTION (WIM) MEASUREMENTS;

STEEL BRIDGES;

EID: 0032687059     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-974X(99)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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