Experimental and numerical assessment of the dynamic behaviour of a stress-ribbon footbridge

Structural Concrete

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-38

  Caetano, Elsa ^a   Cunha, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CHLORIDE MIGRATION TESTS; FACE COMPRESSION; STRESS-RIBBON FOOTBRIDGES; STRUCTURAL CODES;

FOOTBRIDGES;

EID: 24644502241     PISSN: 14644177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/stco.5.1.29.37050     Document Type: Article

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