Live load distribution factors for cast-in-place concrete box girder bridges

Proceedings of the 2008 Structures Congress - Structures Congress 2008: Crossing the Borders

Volumn 314, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ryan, Doerrer ^a   Hindi, Riyadh ^b  

^a Strand Associates Inc   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE ENGINEER; CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE; DISTRIBUTION FACTOR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GIRDER SPACING; LIVE LOADS; METHOD OF ANALYSIS; SPAN LENGTH; TWO-LANE;

BOX GIRDER BRIDGES; SPECIFICATIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70349377612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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