Pervasiveness of excessive segmental bridge deflections: Wake-up call for creep

ACI Structural Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 766-774

  Bažant, Zdeněk P ^a   Hubler, Mija H ^a   Yu, Qiang ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Box girders; Creep prediction models; Design code; Multidecade creep; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

BOX GIRDER; COMPLIANCE FUNCTION; CREEP ANALYSIS; CREEP MODEL; CREEP PREDICTION MODELS; DESIGN CODE; FINITE ELEMENTS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; SEGMENTAL BRIDGE; UPDATED MODEL;

BOX GIRDER BRIDGES; CREEP; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; SHRINKAGE; WAKES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84255200385     PISSN: 08893241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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