Identification of vehicle axle loads from bridge responses using updated static component technique

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1599-1608

  Pinkaew, Tospol ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bridge response; Load identification; Regularization method; Vehicle axle load; Weigh in motion (WIM)

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; DYNAMIC LOADS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEHICLES;

BRIDGE RESPONSE; LOAD IDENTIFICATION; REGULARIZATION METHOD; VEHICLE AXLE LOAD; WEIGH-IN-MOTION (WIM);

AXLES;

AXLES; BRIDGES; DYNAMIC LOADS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEHICLES;

BRIDGE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LOADING; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; WEIGHT;

EID: 33746162761     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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