Excessive long-time deflections of prestressed box girders. I: Record-span Bridge in Palau and other paradigms

Journal of Structural Engineering (United States)

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 676-686

  Bažant, Zdeněk P ^a   Yu, Qiang ^a   Li, Guang Hua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Concrete; Design standards; Prestressed box girder; Relaxation; Segmental erection; Shear lag

Indexed keywords

BOX GIRDER; DESIGN STANDARD; RELAXATION; SEGMENTAL ERECTION; SHEAR LAG;

BOX GIRDER BRIDGES; BRIDGES; CONCRETES; CREEP; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DESIGN; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHRINKAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84862528402     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000487     Document Type: Article

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