Monitoring and enhanced fatigue evaluation of a steel railway bridge

Engineering Structures

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 854-863

  Leander, John ^a   Andersson, Andreas ^a,b   Karoumi, Raid ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bridge assessment; Dynamics; Fatigue; Monitoring; Railway bridge

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; BRIDGE ASSESSMENT; FATIGUE EVALUATION; FATIGUE MONITORING; MONITORING PROGRAMS; OUT-OF-PLANE BENDING; RAILWAY BRIDGES; REMAINING FATIGUE LIFE; ROUTINE INSPECTION; STEEL BEAMS; STEEL RAILWAY BRIDGE; STOCKHOLM; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORETICAL VALUES;

CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; INSPECTION; RAILROAD BRIDGES; STEEL BRIDGES;

RAILROADS;

BRIDGE; CRACKING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FATIGUE; MONITORING; RAILWAY; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 75749154751     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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