Ultimate load carrying capacity of the Lu Pu steel arch bridge under static wind loads

Computers and Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-73

  Cheng, Jin ^a   Jiang, Jian Jing ^b   Xiao, Ru Cheng ^a   Xiang, Hai Fan ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric nonlinearity; Half through type steel arch bridge; Lu Pu Bridge; Material nonlinearity; Three components of wind loads; Ultimate load carrying capacity

Indexed keywords

ARCH BRIDGES; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

STATIC WIND LOADS;

STEEL BRIDGES;

EID: 0037298649     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(02)00433-9     Document Type: Article

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