Loading Spectrum Experienced by Bridge Structures in the United States
Loading Spectrum Experienced by Bridge Structures in the United States

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Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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More than 27,000 trucks were weighed in seven states using a Bridge Weigh-in-Motion system. The system used instrumented highway bridge girders to act as equivalent static scales to obtain truck gross and axle weights, dimensions and speed. Improvements were made in the system software and hardware such that weighing can now be performed automatically with no traffic observer necessary. The weighing operation is undetectable by truck drivers hence the results are not biased due to heavy trucks avoiding the scale. Night weighing has been performed with no danger to crew personnel or highway traffic.

Fracture Mechanics: Applications and Challenges
Fracture Mechanics: Applications and Challenges

Author: M. Fuentes

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2000-09-13

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0080531997

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This book contains 15 fully peer-reviewed Invited Papers which were presented at the 13th Biennial European Conference on Fracture and is a companion to the CD-ROM http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008043701xProceedings. The organisers of the ECF 13 opted from the very beginning for an application-orientated conference, and consequently, this book contributes to the understanding of fracture phenomena, and disseminates fracture concepts and their application to the solution of engineering problems to practitioners in a wide range of fields. The fields covered in this book can be broadly classified into: elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, fracture dynamics, fatigue and interactive processes, failure, structural integrity, coatings and materials, with applications to the following industrial sectors: transport, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, pipelines and automotive engineering.

Reliability of Structures, Second Edition
Reliability of Structures, Second Edition

Author: Andrzej S. Nowak

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0415675758

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Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also supplies information on the probability distributions and parameters used to characterize both applied loads and member resistances. This revised and extended second edition contains more discussions of US and international codes and the issues underlying their development. There is significant revision and expansion of the discussion on Monte Carlo simulation, along with more examples. The book serves as a textbook for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students, or as a reference and guide to consulting structural engineers. Its emphasis is on the practical applications of structural reliability theory rather than the theory itself. Consequently, probability theory is treated as a tool, and enough is given to show the novice reader how to calculate reliability. Some background in structural engineering and structural mechanics is assumed. A solutions manual is available upon qualifying course adoption.

Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems
Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

Author: Marc Maes

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 100015131X

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This volume is an outcome of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 working conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems in Canada. The conference focuses on structural reliability methods and applications and engineering risk analysis and decision-making.