Fatigue tests on riveted steel elements taken from a railway bridge

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 907-920

  Pipinato, Alessio ^a   Molinari, Marco ^b   Pellegrino, Carlo ^a   Bursi, Oreste S ^a   Modena, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bridge; Fatigue; Railway; Rivet; Safety assessment; Steel

Indexed keywords

AGEING INFRASTRUCTURES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FATIGUE ASSESSMENTS; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FATIGUE DESIGN CURVES; FATIGUE TESTS; FULL SCALE TESTS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL TESTS; RAILWAY; RAILWAY BRIDGES; REMAINING LIFE; SAFETY ASSESSMENT; STEEL ELEMENTS; TWO-LANE; WELDED STRUCTURES;

FATIGUE TESTING; RAILROAD BRIDGES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RATING; RIVETS; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

STEEL BRIDGES;

EID: 84860389845     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470903099776     Document Type: Article

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