Dynamic analysis for fatigue safety examination of existing short span concrete railway bridges

7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pimentel, Mário ^a   Figueiras, Joaquim ^a   Brühwiler, Eugen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic amplification; Fatigue; Railway bridges; Reinforced concrete

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AXLES; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETES; DYNAMIC LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOADS (FORCES); RAILROAD BRIDGES; RAILROADS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION;

DYNAMIC AMPLIFICATION; DYNAMIC AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS MODELS; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; EXISTING STRUCTURE; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; RAILWAY BRIDGES;

BRIDGES;

EID: 84959866093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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