Construction and Experimental Analysis of a Pedestrian Bridge with Concrete Deck and IPC Truss Girder

Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-18

  Giannopoulos, G ^a   Vantomme, J ^a   Wastiels, J ^b   Taerwe, L ^c  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Experimental analysis; IPC; Pedestrian bridge

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC PHOSPHATE CEMENT (IPC); STATIC LOADING;

CEMENTS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOTBRIDGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRUSSES;

BRIDGE DECKS;

EID: 1642326740     PISSN: 0334181X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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