Fatigue life of short-span reinforced concrete railway bridges

Structural Concrete

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-222

  Pimentel, M ^a   Bruhwiler E ^b   Figueiras, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAILROAD BRIDGES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

CURRENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DESIGN; EXISTING BRIDGE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RAILWAY BRIDGES; REINFORCEMENT STEELS; REINFORCEMENT STRESS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 57849136960     PISSN: 14644177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/stco.2008.9.4.215     Document Type: Article

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