Transverse posttensioning design of adjacent precast solid multibeam bridges

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 223-230

  Fu, Chung C ^a   Pan, Zuanfeng ^a,b   Ahmed, Mohamed Salah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibrating; Concrete; Connection; Field test; Finite element method; Precast; Shear key; Solid multibeam bridges; Transverse posttensioning

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATING; CONNECTION; FIELD TEST; POSTTENSIONING; PRE-CAST; SHEAR KEY;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; DESIGN;

PRECAST CONCRETE;

EID: 79959382991     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000147     Document Type: Article

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