Nonlinear behavior of heavy class steel truss bridges

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1113-1121

  Nagavi, Razi S ^a   Emin Aktan, A ^b  

^a SES and PEDCo Engineers   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Inelastic action; Nonlinear analysis; Redundancy; Steel; Trusses

Indexed keywords

INELASTIC ACTION; LOAD CAPACITY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; STEEL TRUSS BRIDGE (STB);

ELASTICITY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRUSSES;

STEEL BRIDGES;

EID: 5544231094     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2003)129:8(1113)     Document Type: Article

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