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Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st
IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the
third volume of seven from the Conference, brings together
contributions to this important area of research and engineering.
The collection presents early findings and case studies on
fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including
papers on: Vibration Monitoring Damping Damage Detection Health
Monitoring Dynamic Behavior Dynamic Modeling Human-Induced
Vibration
This book presents extensive information on structural health
monitoring for suspension bridges. During the past two decades,
there have been significant advances in the sensing technologies
employed in long-span bridge health monitoring. However,
interpretation of the massive monitoring data is still lagging
behind. This book establishes a series of measurement
interpretation frameworks that focus on bridge site environmental
conditions, and global and local responses of suspension bridges.
Using the proposed frameworks, it subsequently offers new insights
into the structural behaviors of long-span suspension bridges. As a
valuable resource for researchers, scientists and engineers in the
field of bridge structural health monitoring, it provides essential
information, methods, and practical algorithms that can facilitate
in-service bridge performance assessments.
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The Newport Bridge
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James M Ricci; Foreword by Former Governor Lincoln Chafee
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R734
Discovery Miles 7 340
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The river Danube is an international waterway flowing 2857 km
across Europe from the heights of the Schwarzwald massif down in
the Black Sea delta. In its passage, the second longest European
river crosses 22 geographical longitudes, joining 8 countries:
Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and
Ukraine. The International Conference on Bridges across the Danube
has become a traditional international event in bridge engineering,
initiated by Prof. Miklos Ivanyi and organized periodically each
third year in different Danube countries: 1992 on a ship, sailing
on the Danube from Vienna via Bratislava to Budapest, 1995 in
Bucharest, 1998 in Regensburg, 2001 in Bratislava, 2004 in Novi
Sad, 2007 in Budapest and 2010 in Sofia. The Eight International
Conference on Bridges across the Danube took place in Timisoara
(Romania) and Belgrade (Serbia) in October 2013 aiming at analysing
present trends in bridge construction in every Danube country.
The book includes peer-reviewed contributions selected from
presentations given at the Istanbul Bridge Conference 2014, held
from August 11 - 13 in Istanbul, Turkey. It reports on the current
challenges in bridge engineering faced by professionals around the
globe, giving a special emphasis to recently developed techniques,
innovations and opportunities. The book covers key topics in the
field, including modeling and analysis methods; construction and
erection techniques; design for extreme events and condition
assessment and structural health monitoring. There is a balanced
presentation of theory, research and practice. This book, which
provides the readers with a comprehensive and timely reference
guide on current practices in bridge engineering, is intended for
professionals, academic researchers and students alike.
The purpose of this report is to describe the field data,
conceptual models, and methods used in the development of the
modified envelope curves, as well as their application and
limitations.
This work provides a detailed and up-to-the-minute survey of the
various stability problems that can affect suspension bridges. In
order to deduce some experimental data and rules on the behavior of
suspension bridges, a number of historical events are first
described, in the course of which several questions concerning
their stability naturally arise. The book then surveys conventional
mathematical models for suspension bridges and suggests new
nonlinear alternatives, which can potentially supply answers to
some stability questions. New explanations are also provided, based
on the nonlinear structural behavior of bridges. All the models and
responses presented in the book employ the theory of differential
equations and dynamical systems in the broader sense, demonstrating
that methods from nonlinear analysis can allow us to determine the
thresholds of instability.
The bridges are vital structures for the transport infrastructure.
It is a fact that, in the last decades, composite bridges became a
well-liked solution in many European countries as a cost-effective
and aesthetic alternative to concrete bridges. Their
competitiveness depends on several circumstances such as site
conditions, local costs of material and staff and the contractor s
experience. Beside the classical solutions, the new ones with
efficient design and construction improve and consolidate the
market position of steel construction and steel producing industry.
The book contains the technical description, the construction
details, economic aspects and the results of monitoring and testing
of already executed bridge structures implementing composite dowels
realised within the research RFCS project entitled Eco Bridge."
Historic covered bridges and current timber bridges can be
vulnerable to damage from biodeterioration or fire. This guide
describes procedures for selecting and applying inplace treatments
to prevent or arrest these forms of degradation. Vulnerable areas
for biodeterioration in covered bridges include members contacting
abutments, members near the ends of bridges subject to wetting from
splashing and members below windows or other openings that allow
entry of wind-blown precipitation. Pressure-treated timber bridge
members can be vulnerable when untreated wood is exposed by field
fabrication or by the development of drying checks. The objective
of an in-place preservative treatment is to distribute preservative
into areas of a structure that are vulnerable to moisture
accumulation and/or not protected by the original pressure
treatment. Types of field treatments range from finishes, to boron
rods or pastes, to fumigants. A limitation of in-place treatments
is that they cannot be forced deeply into the wood as is done in
pressure-treatment processes. However, some can be applied into the
center of large members via treatment holes. These preservatives
may be available as liquids, rods or pastes. Bridge members can be
treated with fire retardants to delay ignition, reduce heat
release, and slow the spread of flames. In-place coating products
are available to reduce surface flammability, but these coatings
may need to be reapplied on a regular basis if exposed to
weathering. For more integrated protection, fire retardant
treatment of bridge members may be combined with other forms of
protection such as lights, alarms, sprinklers and monitoring
systems.
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