Distribution of vehicular loads on bridge girders by the FEA using ADINA: modeling, simulation, and comparison

Computers and Structures

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-139

  Chen, Yochia ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE COMPONENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND VEHICLES; HIGHWAY BRIDGES;

BRIDGE GIRDERS; VEHICULAR LOADS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0032690833     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00032-2     Document Type: Article

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