Cumulative Impact of Heavy Permit Trucks on Steel Bridges

1994-01-01
Dicleli, Murat
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In many parts of North America, special permits are issued to heavy vehicles without considering their cumulative effect on steel bridge components. Such overloads may initiate crack propagation and therefore shorten the service life of bridges. Here, a fatigue-based methodology is developed to assess the reduction in service life of bridges due to heavy permit-trucks.
Bridge components, Crack propagation, Fatigue of materials, Impact testing, Service life, Stresses, Structural analysis, Structural design, Structural loads, Trucks
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Proceedings of the Structures Congress '94 (24-28 April 1994)
Department of Engineering Sciences, Conference / Seminar

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M. Dicleli, “Cumulative Impact of Heavy Permit Trucks on Steel Bridges,” Atlanta, GA, USA, 1994, p. 1, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74554.
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