Remaining service life prediction of riveted wrought iron railway bridges using system reliability approach

Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-156

  Dissanayake, P B R ^a   Karunananda, P A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Failure probability; Fatigue; Railway bridges; Reliability index; Remaining service life

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249135702     PISSN: 13914588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4038/jnsfsr.v36i2.147     Document Type: Article

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