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Study of the I-35W Highway Bridge Collapse Mechanism
The Deck truss portion of the I-35W Highway Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed on August 1, 2007 while roadwork was underway on the bridge. The entire truss was recovered from the river to study the causes of failure. The National Transportation Safety Board attributes the collapse to …
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Experimental assessment of cracked steel beams under mechanical loading and elevated temperatures
Bridge fire is a major engineering problem that has been gaining attention by researchers and engineers. As reported in the New York Department of Transportation database, there has been approximately 50 cases of bridge collapse due to fire nationwide with many more cases where fires resulted in …
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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for remote satellite monitoring of bridges
… performance. This research focusses on bridges as a specific example of critical infrastructure to establish whether remote satellite monitoring can be used to measure displacements at a resolution that is sufficiently accurate for use in monitoring of performance, and examines the …