Load testing and model simulations for a stone arch bridge

Bridge Structures

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 367-378

  Fanning, P J ^a   Sobczak, L ^a   Boothby, T E ^b   Salomoni, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arch bridges; Bridge assessment; Bridge modelling; Stone arch bridges

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE ASSESSMENT; FINITE ELEMENT PACKAGES; FRICTIONLESS CONTACTS; NONLINEAR NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STONE-ARCH BRIDGES; TESTING AND MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLIDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARCH BRIDGES;

EID: 34547899954     PISSN: 15732487     EISSN: 17448999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732480500453532     Document Type: Article

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