Importance of the traffic model in the reliability estimation of highway bridges

Road bridges are exposed to stochastic traffic loadings that are not simply determined. The international codes for the design and assessment of highway bridges provide some standard trucks that can be used in the design process. Knowing that the traffic can vary considerably from one bridge to anot...

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Main Authors: El Hajj Chehade Fatima, Younes Rafic, Hage Chehade Fadi, Mroueh Hussein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:MATEC Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2019/30/matecconf_incer2019_01003.pdf