Behavior of bridge asphalt plug joints under thermal and traffic loads

Journal of Bridge Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 250-259

  Park, Philip ^a   El Tawil, Sherif ^a   Park, Sang Yeol ^b   Naaman, Antoine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Jeju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asphalt; Asphalts; Bridge; Bridges; Cracking; Expansion joint; Failure; Failures; Fatigue; Joints; Plug joint; Thermal; Thermal factors

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT; LOADING RATE; LOW-COST SOLUTION; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MODEL RESULTS; PREMATURE FAILURES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SIMULATED RESPONSE; SIMULATION RESULT; STRESS AND STRAIN DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE FLATNESS; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEST DATA; THERMAL FACTORS; THERMAL LOADINGS; THERMAL MOVEMENTS; TRAFFIC LOADS; VISCOPLASTIC MATERIALS;

ASPHALT; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DEBONDING; EXPANSION JOINTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEST FACILITIES;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 77951248536     PISSN: 10840702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000056     Document Type: Article

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