One promising technique for the seismic design of highway bridges with steel superstructures is to dissipate energy through the inelastic deformation of the end cross frames. These so-called ductile ...
Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out a detailed simulation showing how a common type of bridge fails during large-scale earthquakes. They modeled “I-shaped ...