Vehicle collision with bridge piers

Journal of Bridge Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-353

  El Tawil, Sherif ^a   Severino, Edward ^b   Fonseca, Priscilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HNTB CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Collisions; Finite elements; Piers; Simulations; Traffic accidents; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CROSSING; COLLISIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; HEAVY VEHICLES;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; BRIDGE PIERS; BRIDGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND VEHICLES; ROADS AND STREETS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 18144374058     PISSN: 10840702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2005)10:3(345)     Document Type: Article

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