Thermal design criteria for deep prestressed concrete girders based on data from confederation bridge

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 813-825

  Li, Dongning ^a,b   Maes, Marc A ^a   Dilger, Walter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Associated Engineering Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Average temperature; Concrete bridge; Curvature; Differential temperature; Statistical evaluation; Stress; Thermal response

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONFEDERATION BRIDGE; NONLINEAR STRESSES; RESIDUAL TEMPERATURE; THERMAL DESIGN CRITERIA;

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

BRIDGE; CONCRETE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 10944236890     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L04-041     Document Type: Article

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