Fatigue life prediction of welded joints in orthotropic steel decks considering temperature effect and increasing traffic flow

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 189-202

  Tong, Guo ^a   Aiqun, Li ^a   Jianhui, Li ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bridge deck components; Fatigue damage; Structural health monitoring; Temperature effect; Traffic flow; Welded joints

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849083465     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921708090556     Document Type: Article

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