Practical tool to accurately estimate tensile stresses in concrete bridge decks to control transverse cracking

Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 74-82

  Hadidi, Rambod ^a   Saadeghvaziri, M Ala ^a   Hsu, C T Thomas ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge decks; Composite beams; Concrete, reinforced; Cracking; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGE DECKS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THERMAL LOADINGS; TRANSVERSE CRACKING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; CRACK INITIATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SHRINKAGE; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TENSILE STRESS;

BRIDGE DECKS;

EID: 13944251211     PISSN: 10840680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0680(2003)8:2(74)     Document Type: Article

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