Torsional effects on short-span highway bridges

Computers and Structures

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 619-629

  Meng, Jun Yi ^a   Lui, Eric M ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

FREQUENCY RATIO; SHORT SPAN BRIDGES;

HIGHWAY BRIDGES;

EID: 0033879823     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00115-7     Document Type: Article

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