Importance of the tail in truck weight modeling for bridge assessment

Journal of Bridge Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 210-213

  Obrien, Eugene J ^a   Enright, Bernard ^b   Getachew, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^c Suncoast Post Tension Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Bridge; Bridges; Load effect; Load factors; Loading; Semiparametric; Simulation; Tail; Traffic; Trucks; Weigh in motion; Weight; WIM

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; LOAD EFFECT; LOAD EFFECTS; LOAD FACTORS; SEMIPARAMETRIC; WEIGH IN MOTION;

AUTOMOBILES; WEIGHING;

TRUCKS;

EID: 77149162376     PISSN: 10840702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000043     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Bailey, S. F. (1996). " Basic principles and load models for the structural safety evaluation of existing bridges.." Thesis, École Polythechnique F́d́ral de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2. Bruls, A., Croce, P., Sanpaolesi, L., and Sedlacek, G. (1996). " ENV1991-Part 3: Traffic loads on bridges; calibration of load models for road bridges.." Proc., IABSE Colloquium, IABSE-AIPC-IVBH, Delft, The Netherlands, 439-453.
3. Caprani, C. C., O'Brien, E. J., and McLachlan, G. J. (2008). " Characteristic traffic load effects from a mixture of loading events on short to medium span bridges.." Struct. Saf., 30 (5), 394-404. 10.1016/j.strusafe. 2006.11.006 0002-7820 (Pubitemid 351753659)
4. Castillo, E. (1988). Extreme value theory in engineering, Academic, San Diego.
5. Coles, S. G. (2001). An introduction to statistical modeling of extreme values, Springer, Berlin.
6. EC1. (2003). " Actions on structures. Part 2: Traffic loads on bridges.." Eurocode 1, EN 1991-2:2003, European Committee for Standardization, Brussels.
7. Flint, A. R., and Jacob, B. (1996). " Extreme traffic loads on road bridges and target values of their effects for code calibration.." Proc., IABSE Colloquium, IABSE, Zurich, Switzerland, 469-478.
8. Kennedy, D. J. L., Gagnon, D. P., Allen, D. E., and MacGregor, J. G. (1992). " Canadian highway bridge evaluation: Load and resistance factors.." Can. J. Civ. Eng. 0315-1468, 19, 992-1006. 10.1139/l92-108
9. Nowak, A. S. (1993). " Live load model for highway bridges.." Struct. Saf., 13, 53-66. 10.1016/0167-4730(93)90048-6 0167-4730
10. Nowak, A. S. (1994). " Load model for bridge design code.." Can. J. Civ. Eng. 0315-1468, 21, 36-49.
11. O'Connor, A., and O'Brien, E. J. (2005). " Traffic load modeling and factors influencing the accuracy of predicted extremes.." Can. J. Civ. Eng. 0315-1468, 32 (1), 270-278. 10.1139/l04-092 (Pubitemid 40899776)
12. Scott, D. (1992). Multivariate density estimation: Theory, practice, and visualization, Wiley, New York.