Load capacity of damaged RC slab spans of railway-bridges

Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 963-978

  Maksymowicz, M ^a   Cruz, P J S ^b   Bien J ^c  

^a Gifford LLP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Defect; Load capacity; Railway bridge; RC slab span; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; RAILROAD BRIDGES; RAILROADS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; LOAD CAPACITY; RAILWAY BRIDGES; RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; RC SLAB; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84863527657     PISSN: 16449665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1644-9665(12)60089-2     Document Type: Article

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