Fatigue reliability assessment of retrofitted steel bridges integrating monitored data

Structural Safety

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-89

  Liu, Ming ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a   Kwon, Kihyon ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion induced fatigue cracking; Fatigue reliability; Field monitored data; Finite element modeling; Spatial adjustment factor; Steel bridges

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION-INDUCED FATIGUE CRACKING; FATIGUE RELIABILITY; FIELD MONITORED DATA; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; SPATIAL ADJUSTMENT FACTOR;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RETROFITTING; STEEL; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

STEEL BRIDGES;

EID: 70349852756     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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