Characteristic dynamic traffic load effects in bridges

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1607-1612

  OBrien, Eugene J ^a   Rattigan, Paraic ^b   González, Arturo ^a   Dowling, Jason ^a   Žnidarič, Aleš ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Roughan and O'Donovan   (Ireland)

^c SLOVENIAN NATIONAL BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bridge; Characteristic; Dynamic; Soft load testing; VBI; Vehicle bridge interaction; Vibration; Weigh in motion; WIM

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC; SOFT LOAD TESTING; VBI; VEHICLE BRIDGE INTERACTION; VIBRATION; WEIGH-IN-MOTION; WIM;

ELECTRIC MEASURING BRIDGES; FLEET OPERATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

LOAD TESTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BRIDGE; DESIGN; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; LOADING TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; STIFFNESS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 68949083187     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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