A Contact Element Approach with Hysteresis Damping for the Analysis and Design of Pounding in Bridges

Earthquake ground motion can induce out-of-phase vibrations between adjacent structures due to differences in dynamic characteristics, which can result in impact or pounding of the structures if the at-rest separation is insufficient to accommodate the relative displacements. In bridges, seismic pou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muthukumar, Susendar
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5286